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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a petition going around to ask st Ann to reconsider its week of virtual learning. They seem to have gone off the deep end and apparently require outdoor masking. [/quote]

Curious as to the reason for the petition?

What is wrong with virtual learning for one week considering the impact Omicron has had on the community in the last 2-3 weeks? Many families have been impacted and many others traveled and are now testing positive.[/quote]

NP.  We are a two parent working household, with demanding (especially in Jan).  It's extremely challenging to work from home with very young children and we are obligated by our companies to either find daycare or take time off.  There was no way to do this with HS kids being in school and therefore unable to babysit and help with virtual classwork.  So now we have to split time off and disappoint our bosses at a time where job security is critical and definitely at risk with one of our employers.

Obviously if there was an actual exposure or our kid (or a classmate) tested positive we would have to do this - but to do it simply because [b]our principal believes he knows better than the rest of the Arch Diocese and public/private schools in our area[/b] is beyond frustrating.  Our kids have remained in school for the entire pandemic, and the protocols have worked.

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NNP. There has also been a pretty disappointing lack of communication around this. An admin email announced the closure on 1/29 because "a number of students tested positive", but made it sound like it could go beyond a week. Principal confirmed it in another email two days later but at least said it was only a week. Nothing about strategy going forward, what the main issues are (staffing vs. in-school transmission), etc. The school is sending out longer emails on the hot lunch program than it is about this. I think that's a problem. [/quote]

Yes the principal keeps pushing stuff that doesn’t actually help with COVID mitigation and puts the entire burden in families and students. Outdoor masking and closed schools are dumb. Vaccine mandate and test-to-return would actually matter but won’t even be discussed.  This school is off the reservation. [/quote][/quote]

I agree. Out diocesan school is also stuck in 2020. They think if they are "mostly open", but quarantining groups of exposed cases, they are great! No, adopt. test to stay and stop asking healthy kids to stay home! 
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Are the exposed cases being quarantined vaccinated? I thought the guidance was that vaccinated close contacts don't have to quarantine?[/quote]

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