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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least one of the parents is blatantly lying in the Reason article. MV’s leadership specifically stated that parents and staff had similar support for continuing to mask. But I suppose it’s more fun to give an anti-teacher soundbyte. [/quote]

Isn’t MV not lifting their mask mandate until like the first week of May, and maybe not then?

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The parent along with others in the article told the writer that "the strict policies largely reflect the preferences of the staff rather than the parents." This isn't the clearly isn't the case at MV (see the survey results above), and accordingly, I have my doubts at the other schools.

I thought MV's rationale was well articulated to parents. They cited increasing cases at MV, the known impact of covid-19 vs. the unknown impact of masking, the physical challenge of implementing social distancing, [b]40% still unvaccinated[/b], and not wanting to place all the burden and risk on vulnerable students and staff.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MrT6EAX6k4EW6uCsdts9t7WcoWn_gq-/view[/quote]

It's appalling to see that level of "vaccine hesitancy" at a school that is clearly also very Covid anxious. You really shouldn't be able to have it both ways.
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Approx 20% is vaccine hesitancy or misinformation, and 20% is too young to vaccinate. I suspect that the 20% doesn't overlap substantially with those who want masking; people who oppose the vaccine tend to discount the severity of covid and hence also tend to not mask. So you should probably point the finger somewhere else.

[i]Compared to those who reported positive vaccine intentions, respondents with negative vaccine intentions were significantly less likely to report that they engaged in the COVID-19 prevention behaviors of wearing masks (aOR = 0.53, CI = 0.37–0.76) and social distancing (aOR = 0.22, CI = 0.12–0.42). [b][url=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246970]Citation[/url][/b][/i]

But the city can reduce the number of unvaccinated students by requiring covid vaccines of all age-eligible students.[/quote]

While I sincerely appreciate that you've provided a citation, I'm just not sure if this opinion poll is still valid--the survey here was done in May 2020.[/quote]

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