Reply to Why are you demanding 5 day in-person school now that the pandemic is getting more dangerous?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "Why are you demanding 5 day in-person school now that the pandemic is getting more dangerous?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the big picture isn’t what matters for schools. What matters for schools is the risk to teachers and other school staff plus students. Teachers and staff are now vaccinated. Children are low risk for serious issues from covid. [/quote]

What about their unvaccinated parents and family members?[/quote]

Their high risk family members should be getting their vaccines at this point. Hasn’t most of the state opened up for 1B?

I’ve been in the super cautious, I’ll keep my kid online thanks contingent for a long time but it’s absurd to believe that schools are more unsafe now than they were in November. Bringing kids back into buildings right now is exactly what should be happening.[/quote]

This.  The risk to kids is pretty low, and schools are taking mitigation measures -- masking, cohorts, ventilation, etc.  Teachers are vaccinated.  The highest-risk people are mostly vaccinated, so it's actually safer in that respect than it was in November.  More and more people are being vaccinated every day.   It's not zero risk, but lots of people subject their children to some risk by sending them to school -- driving them there, sending them during flu season (flu being more dangerous to children than COVID), etc.  I just don't see how you say it's demonstrably more dangerous for kids to go to school now than it was in November.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics