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[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 wish every Diocese or Arlington principal would read this. Leadership starts at the top. [/quote]

These schools' mission is not to keep children safe from a pandemic. If they would like to fulfill their core mission, they need to scale back on their mitigations.  I hope the principals are reading this!  And the Bishop!!! He needs to provide leadership to these Pastors and Principals.  The schools are all over the map.[/quote]

Horrible take. Nobody is suggesting that schools have a mission to keep kids safe from the pandemic. But indeed providing safe environments where learning can occur is CORE to their mission of educating our children. If they don’t implement and enforce mitigations, learning will be disrupted and our children will be home. Removing mitigations is the opposite of what they should be doing right now.

Similarly, I do not think it’s the school’s “mission” to prevent school shootings. But do I expect strong mitigations and investment to prevent against them. Scaling back these mitigations would similarly detract from their ability to provide a safe environment that facilitates learning. [/quote]

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