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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the love of God. If you want your kid masked, then go to Public school. Stop
trying to have your cake and eat it too.  [b]At Catholic schools, we want it optional. [/b]  It’s the parents choice.  They are children. Shame on any parent putting a mask on their innocent child. You’re a bad mom. There, I said it. [/quote]

No, “we” do not. [/quote]

Yes, “we” do. [/quote]

Did your school survey parents about their mask preference? If so, do you know the result?  If not, you are simply speaking to your preference and experience.

Let’s let the Department of Health and the CDC, the experts, make these decisions. [/quote]

Ours did and thank goodness the ant-mask parents were FAR and away the minority.

Nobody likes the idea that our kids will have another abnormal year. But the situation is still active and perhaps even increasing in complexity for those kids who are not yet eligible for vaccines. Especially in k-8s, there is no choice but to offer protection all the way through the youngest students. Full stop.

As others have pointed out, I have no doubt that this is what Jesus also would have done. If you are only focused on the impact of masks singularly on your own kid, I would reflect on whether being part of a Catholic school is really a good fit for your family. [/quote]

Perhaps Jesus would have told the unvaccinated to stay home until they were vaccinated. That would be far better protected.

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So your view is that only middle schools and high schools should be open for in-person instruction? That's wild and not supported by &lt;checks notes&gt; any science.

Mitigations last year (including masks!) kept kids of all ages in school. [/quote]

No that's not my view.  That's PP's view.  PP insists that everyone must sacrifice for others if they consider themselves a Jesus following Catholic.  I'm just saying if you think everyone should sacrifice and wear masks and that is the only approach a Catholic should take.  I think you should look in the mirror.  Are people being selfish by insisting their child must attend.  A mask is no where near as effective as a vaccine.  I'm sorry if not everyones is eligible.  But, perhaps Jesus would consider staying home the appropriate and ultimate sacrifice.[/quote]

Of course vaccines are more effective than masks. Of course! I haven't seen anyone here preaching otherwise.

But if you are in a Catholic k-8 school, the vast majority of the school community (at my NOVA k-8, students age 3-11 once you also include the students in the school's preschool program) are not eligible for a vaccine. Parents of these students are not being selfish by "insisting" that their child "must attend." Either the school is open in-person, hybrid, or fully virtual. That's it - those are the choices!  Importantly, THE SCHOOL is the one making the decision, not individual parents. To my knowledge, very few (perhaps none?) of the Arlington Diocese K-8s offered a virtual option for their own school. St. Isidore was an option, but that's a completely different school... not an extension of a physical school that students could return to post vaccination.) Unless 100% of students under age 12 are virtual until they have the opportunity to vaccinate, these schools have no choice but to make decisions with the FULL community in mind.

So for children under age 12 to stay home until they are eligible as you suggest, the schools would either need to stand up a new virtual option (within the month!), or truly shut down grades for kids ages 3-11 until vaccination is available, giving back tuition $ and pushing families to other schools. Clearly neither of those are realistic nor good options, either near or long term.

I'm sorry you can't stand the thought of Johnny in a mask one more year, but your school is a community filled mostly with kids who are too young to receive a vaccine. If you were thinking with a mindset of how to serve the full community (keeping them in school and safe), the only rational decision is to continue mitigations (including masks) until vaccines are available.[/quote]

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