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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you read your emails? It will be discussed at the School Board Meeting.

[quote]Mask Requirement: I know there are questions about next steps with our mask policy. Like other local school divisions, APS has been reviewing the latest health guidance and planning for when we can safely ease our masks requirements. We will present our plan and revised policy at Thursday’s School Board meeting. We have come far together as a community in maintaining safe, open schools, even during the Omicron spike, and we will continue that work together.[/quote][/quote]

They can discuss all they want, the law goes into effect on March 1. What would be really refreshing is if they just sent out an email that says in compliance with the law, on March 1, masks are optional. Also they need to withdraw from that lawsuit right now. [/quote]

APS has to evaluate all of their other covid-related policies and practices to account for students who won’t wear masks.  They may be reconsidering distancing amounts (and whether classrooms will need to be reconfigured), lunch practices, close contact and test to stay policies, etc.  [/quote]

What are they going to do about classroom configuration or lunch?  Get real.  They have no options.  And are you suggesting that the maskless children will be forced to sit in some banished corner of the room far away from others?

I doubt it.  You're making this over complicated.  If you are very worried about your own child, send them in a good quality KN95.  [/quote]

FCCPS changed their distancing guidelines so that unmasked children had to seated 6 feet away from classmates rather than 3 feet.[/quote]

This would be physically impossible in my second grader’s class. I doubt they’re 3 feet apart now.  They’re packed in to a relatively small classroom as it is. [/quote]

Even if they don’t rearrange the classroom, they can set a policy that the “close contact” radius for unmasked students is 6 feet rather than 3 feet.  Under the current policy, students who are deemed close contacts are only exempt from quarantine if they are fully up to date on their vaccines (including boosters), have no symptoms and wear masks consistently.  If APS maintains this policy, then any student who does not wear a mask and who is deemed a close contact will have to go through the test to stay protocol or quarantine for five days.[/quote]

Exempt from quarantine is vaxxed and symptom free.  If any system adds ‘and was masked at time of exposure’ they are adding to cdc/vdh guidelines with no basis in health [/quote]

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