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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions. [/quote]

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school.  Where would the tests come from?[/quote]

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.[/quote]

[b]Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed.  [/b]There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids.  I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.[/quote]

Yeah, no.[/quote]

It’s possible that it’s not the case in MD.  Visit any VA school and ask about the petitions generated to end masking.  Seriously.[/quote]

Absolutely not the case in our K-8 school in the Arlington Diocese.  [/quote]

Agree. My 3rd grader is a class full of vaccinated children.  [/quote]

A lot of my children’s classmates are vaccinated. There is also a strong and small very vocal minority who want no masks, no vaccines, and no mitigation requirements. They are super vocal. It is very strange. [/quote]

Disappointing if schools would not implement measures in fear of a vocal minority. Let them leave and homeschool if they don’t want to be in a school that implements health and safety measures that can enable them to do what they are there to do — teach.

Testing as a minimum mitigation should be non controversial. If you are negative and stay negative, welcome back. Simple as that. [/quote]

This hasn’t been the case (our school has good mitigation measures), but they are relentless. It is quite something. [/quote]

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