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[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]

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way. [/quote]

Yea, privates with $40k tuitions.  Parochial schools don’t have the resources for school-wide testing. [/quote]

But most parents do.  So do it.  Easy.  The catholic school system needs to stop functioning like a charity - it has lost too many full pay people to continue as such.  Act like a business - like the privates do- and demand better of the folks that utilize school services.  Keep everyone safe.  A win - win.[/quote]

Wow. That moves the schools further away from their mission. HINT: They weren’t created to serve the wealthy. Mother Seton weeps.[/quote]

Sure, that might be a mission for Catholic schools over all. But if you think that all of our local Catholic schools do this, you are kidding yourself. Many of our schools sit in some of the most wealthy areas of our entire country. I’m not saying every family is wealthy, but to imply that we’d be putting a financial burden on people who can ‘t afford tests is a laughable excuse. You know that isn’t true at our local schools.  And on the chance schools are concerned about this, they could ask people to let them know and ask the rest of the community to contribute to a fund to cover. I’m not wealthy but would gladly cover any family at our school that could not afford testing.[/quote]

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