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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our charter is dropping it this coming week thank goodness.[/quote]

Would you mind sharing which one? Is this outside only or also inside optional? I am guessing you don't have a health check or 10 day quarantine.[/quote]

MV, no outdoor mask starting this week.  No health check.  Vaccinated asymptomatic kids do not have to quarantine.  We have a very high vax rate, high 70%, so basically only kids not vax are ECE kids.  Positive Covid cases 7 day quarantine.

They also said they are reviewing new changes with mask optional now and will let us know in a week or so about that.  Hopefully indoor will be dropped too.

IMO they have done a really good job with school wide testing , protocols, and keeping classes open during the Omicron surge.  They are very transparent about number of cases at the school and the data is sent out in the weekly bulletin to families. Cases at our school have been low.  I think this helps with decision making hopefully in lifting indoor masks.

DC has left the masking decision to schools. [b] If your school doesn’t know their vax rate and case rate and don’t have the data, then I’m not sure how the principal or leadership can make these decisions on a school by school basis.[/b]

I’m all for following CDC guidelines but it doesn’t sound like OSSE is mandating lifting indoor masking so it sounds like it will be up to individula schools.[/quote]

They could just follow CDC guidance, which is actually the right thing to do.  School principals aren't public health authorities and shouldn't be making public health decisions.  Listen to experts, amirite?[/quote]

Yeah. I get that during early COVID, we were all running around trying to figure out what was the right thing to do because the situation was so complicated and what we were hearing wasn't necessarily complete or reliable. I was reading studies and trying to make decisions on the basis of that, and I'm sure that school leadership felt like they had to make these kinds of decisions for their communities as well. But we're so past that now. All you have to do is do the thing that public health guidance is telling you to do and that practically everyone else is already doing. [/quote]

I agree but the majority of DCPS schools have very low vax rate if the total vax percentage in DC for kids is in the 20’s.  So these families likely want all kids to be masked.  The school vax rate does not correlate with community vax rates and why it’s important to know what the vax rate is in your school. Just like how the CDC base their recommendations on vax rate.[/quote]

And the kids who are not vax likely also have parents and extended families not vax[/quote]

Are you seriously suggesting that they can refuse to get vaccinated and then demand that everyone else keep masking to protect them?[/quote]

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