DCPS close contact mask policy

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS isn’t interested in evidence-based anything. They are interested in appeasing the union. Period.

This. Anyone who doesn't understand how much power WTU has over our children's education hasn't been paying attention. Some of you are just seeing it with COVID, but it's been this way for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS isn’t interested in evidence-based anything. They are interested in appeasing the union. Period.

This. Anyone who doesn't understand how much power WTU has over our children's education hasn't been paying attention. Some of you are just seeing it with COVID, but it's been this way for decades.

So much power that teachers are without a contract since 2019? Is thr union in charge of RCT, iReady, Dibels, TRC, PARCC?

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What a joke. Teachers don’t even know what the policies are going to be tomorrow, and they have zero control over them. Since the old union president passed away the union is toothless and doesn’t even try to fight. All it does right now is attempt to enforce the bare minimum of our expired contract. If you think it’s this powerful voice right now, you’re way off.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty disgusting how many people think their kid has a fundamental right to cough all over people…

My vaccinated kid is not coughing. They are perfectly healthy and forced to wear a mask for 10 days because they were “exposed” to someone with covid. Who or for how long I’m not allowed to know. Even if they test negative on day five they still have to wear a mask for 10 days. Tell me how forcing a vaccinated healthy child to do that is ok?

Exactly. This have essentially backdoored another mandatory mask policy and people haven’t even caught on. There will always be a case. And this new policy requires masking at all times both inside AND outside, which is even more restrictive than the policy had been just prior to lifting the mandate completely and going mask optional. How people haven’t recognized what they are doing is beyond me.

I agree. The question is how long are they going to keep this up? Forever? Covid isn't going away. One more reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing, which is pointless at this stage anyway.

Yes, we opted out as well. DCPS has to realize that this super restrictive policies provide parents no incentive to test their children.

We opted out from the beginning. Asymptomatic testing is pointless and a waste of time.

Ugh I tried to opt out--found out they were testing my kid ANYWAY

You should complain about that, because it's illegal.

Happened to my oldest once. I went down to the school office and raised holy hell (like, school security guard was about to intervene, until I told her I’d sue her and ruin her life if she came near me). We ended up getting an email and apology from the principal, assuring us it would never happen again.

I was the one who suggested you complain, but this sounds like you didn’t exactly help our cause of getting schools to behave rationally.

That was actually someone else. I was the original opt-out person. It sounds like this has happened to multiple people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Exactly! Kids with symptoms should mask. Asymptomatic, their choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Exactly! Kids with symptoms should mask. Asymptomatic, their choice.

Kids mask was sitting next to him on his desk. I’m not allowed to tell him to put it on.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Literally no one? How can you say that based on your anecdote(s)? I guarantee you there are people who would not have sent a coughing kid to school, because I am one of them. I didn't send sick kids to school pre-Covid either.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Literally no one? How can you say that based on your anecdote(s)? I guarantee you there are people who would not have sent a coughing kid to school, because I am one of them. I didn't send sick kids to school pre-Covid either.

You do realize you are an outlier among the DCPS parent population, right? I’m glad you do the right thing. Thank you for that. But this has been a decades long problem with no solution. Kids come to school sick and a lot of parents are mad you are calling them about it. I’ve had kids vomit then sit at school the rest of the day because no one will pick them up.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Literally no one? How can you say that based on your anecdote(s)? I guarantee you there are people who would not have sent a coughing kid to school, because I am one of them. I didn't send sick kids to school pre-Covid either.

You do realize you are an outlier among the DCPS parent population, right? I’m glad you do the right thing. Thank you for that. But this has been a decades long problem with no solution. Kids come to school sick and a lot of parents are mad you are calling them about it. I’ve had kids vomit then sit at school the rest of the day because no one will pick them up.

Yep! And now coughing ones have a mask on their chin and we can’t ask them to pull it up. >

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Anonymous wrote:Time to treat covid like the common cold. Most of the kids I know who have had covid were asymptomatic OR only had symptoms for 1 day. Send them back to school using the common cold rule- symptom free for more than 24 hours? GO back to school. Wear a mask for one week. But no more missing school.

This is how it should be for everyone - we don't isolate when we actually have a cold. However, if the CDC comes out with that guidance Twitter is going to light up that they are racist mass murderers and the policy makers are too afraid of the backlash.

The problem is no one follows that rule. Literally no one. I had a kid in my classroom deep chest coughs, stuffy and runny nose. Parent acted like he was displaying none of these and was healthy.

Literally no one? How can you say that based on your anecdote(s)? I guarantee you there are people who would not have sent a coughing kid to school, because I am one of them. I didn't send sick kids to school pre-Covid either.

You do realize you are an outlier among the DCPS parent population, right? I’m glad you do the right thing. Thank you for that. But this has been a decades long problem with no solution. Kids come to school sick and a lot of parents are mad you are calling them about it. I’ve had kids vomit then sit at school the rest of the day because no one will pick them up.

I do know that it is a pervasive problem, and maybe I am an outlier, but I'm hardly the only one who doesn't send a manifestly sick kid to school. So your emphatic "literally no one" was unnecessary, extreme hyperbole, and I reacted to that.

I did hope that this would get better with Covid. Not that I was expecting, or even hoping, that people would keep their kids home for a stuffy nose (I don't do that either), but I certainly hoped that the business of drugging your kids with Tylenol before sending them off to school would stop, or the practice of sending the kid back the next day after they vomited all over their classmates the day before.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and have been in total shock that we went straight from 100% masks required to 100% masks optional. No provisions for exposure, symptoms, etc, and now we are surprised that cases are going up? I've literally had classes full of coughing kids, no masks, and kids missing because they have Covid, kids leaving midday because their test came back positive, kids telling me cheerfully that they "had Covid yesterday but they are okay now" -- still coughing, still no mask. We couldn't even ask them to put one on.

There has to be a middle ground here!!!

I think the 10-day close contact rule is a step in the right direction. Though I think connecting it to symptoms -- if you're coughing, and it's not a known, chronic condition, mask up -- would make even more sense...

Then wear a mask if you’re worried. One-way masking works. And agreed that this policy is absurd. The kids could, in theory, have to be masked every week if everyone is deemed a close contact and there’s at least one case in the class each week, which effectively reinstitutes mandatory masking without calling it that.

Exactly. Parents should opt out of asymptomatic testing. Just test your kid at home if they have symptoms.

[Anonymous]

This new rule, which essentially means kids will be masking most of the time, is definitely a reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing if you haven't already. How long is this going to go on? Do we need a Republican congress to stop the money flow for unnecessary PCR screening? There is no natural endpoint to this.

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Anonymous wrote:This new rule, which essentially means kids will be masking most of the time, is definitely a reason to opt out of asymptomatic testing if you haven't already. How long is this going to go on? Do we need a Republican congress to stop the money flow for unnecessary PCR screening? There is no natural endpoint to this.

Well said.