another Spin Off: With VA going mask option (its the law now) ...
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... will the privates comply?
Youngkin signed Sb739 with an emergency clause giving VA school until March 1 to comply with a mask optional policy. How are the privates going to get around this? |
Anonymous
| Pretty sure it only applies to public schools. |
Anonymous
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SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Public elementary and secondary schools and public school-based early childhood care and education programs; student instruction; masks. Requires, except in the case of the 10 unscheduled remote learning days otherwise permitted by law or in certain cases of student discipline, each school board to offer in-person instruction, as defined in the bill, to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary or secondary school for at least the minimum number of required annual instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. The bill permits, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any regulation, rule, or policy implemented by a school board, school division, school official, or other state or local authority, the parent of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school, or in any school-based early childhood care and education program, to elect for such child to not wear a mask while on school property. The bill provides that no parent making such an election shall be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status and no student shall suffer any adverse disciplinary or academic consequences as a result of this parental election. Source: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB739 |
Anonymous
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It only applies to early childhood centers and public schools. The state has very little authority tj regulate private schools. See language from the bill:
“The bill permits, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any regulation, rule, or policy implemented by a school board, school division, school official, or other state or local authority, the parent of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school, or in any school-based early childhood care and education program, to elect for such child to not wear a mask while on school property.” |
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Public elementary and secondary schools and public school-based early childhood care and education programs.Requires each school board to offer in-person instruction...The bill permits, notwithstanding (read "inspite of") any other provision of law or any regulation, rule, or policy implemented by a school board, school division, school official, or other state or local authority, the parent of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school, or in any school-based early childhood care and education program, to elect for such child to not wear a mask while on school property. The bill provides that no parent making such an election shall be required to provide a reason or any certification of the child's health or education status and no student shall suffer any adverse disciplinary or academic consequences as a result of this parental election.
That each local school division must comply with the provisions of subsection C of § 22.1-2.1 of 29 the Code of Virginia, as created by this act, no later than March 1, 2022. |
Anonymous
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You Trumplicans are so f’ing stupid. No private schools (the good ones) are not going to change their mask requirements.
Quit creating stupid threads and go read a book. |
Anonymous
Actually, The good ones already did. |
Anonymous
Bwahahaha |
Cruzado
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The executive order requiring all schools (both public and private) to allow parents to choose remains valid and enforceable except for the preliminary injunction as to the specific set of public schools that sued to challenge the order (no private schools sued).
Thus, private schools must adhere to the executive order giving parents the choice. |
Anonymous
Nope. One of our schools leases space in a church and is required to abide by their contractual obligation to follow the church’s mask requirement. What authority does the Governor have to interfere in a private contract between a church and school? It’s an illegal government overreach to try to prohibit private schools from mandating masks. What is the Governor going to be able do to private schools that violate his “order?” |
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The same authority that the governor had when governor Northam issued the mandatory mask mandate for all schools public and private. Now there is a mandatory choice order and it has the same effect. If a parent at your school wants to send their kids to school without a mask, and your school prevents that, the school is looking at a costly lawsuit. No private school in VA will enforce any mask requirements after March 1. |
Anonymous
I think you’re conflating the EO with SB739, which goes into effect in March and only applies to public schools (read the language of the bill and that’s clear). A mask mandate as a public health measure during a state of emergency does not mean an EO for “parent choice” applies equally to private schools. You’re wrong on the law here. Also, it’s telling that there have been no lawsuits involving private schools at this point. |
Anonymous
| What are early childhood centers? Are those like daycares and preschools? |
Anonymous
Newbie here, what are the good ones? |
Anonymous
I believe it means Headstart programs at public schools. |