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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Understand their legal obligation” to me means they understand they will have to comply. But they are hopeful that by March 1 transmission continues to decrease. [/quote]

+1.  It’s really not hard to understand.  The problem is so many here have a vendetta against FCPS that they try to make everything a conspiracy or scandal.[/quote]

Yeah, it says they "understand their legal" blah blah, but then directs parents to their existing FCPS off ramp plan.  In other words, it refuses to recognize the passage of VA state law.  Unbelievable.  [/quote]

yeah... I'm getting suspicious about FCPS again.  At first I read it as begrudgingly accepting the finality of the new law.  But, after reading the Wash Post article today, they (Post) seems to think FCPS is hedging.  Apparently FCPS refused to answer a direct question about whether masking would be optional Mar. 1st.

It's SOOO stupid to dig their heels in at this point!  We are down to about 12 new daily cases per 100k people!  We are the best in the state (lowest number of cases per capita).

I think FCPS is expecting CDC to give new rules and then FCPS will send out a new announcement saying that they are following CDC. FCPS is being very bull-headed.  Insisting that they are right in principle, yet ignoring the reality on the ground.

And that Va ACLU lawyer quoted in the Wash Post article -- wants to know what disabled kids who need universal masking are supposed to do.  Ummm... madam atty, if a kid "needs universal masking" then they are not safe in a public setting.  You can't expect the world to bubble-wrap themselves just because you are so fragile.

From the article:

The final plaintiff in the suit, Fairfax County Public Schools, whose roughly 179,000 students make it the largest district in the state, is still requiring masks for now — and it is not clear when the mask mandate will lift. In a message to families Friday, Superintendent Scott Brabrand did not directly say whether the district would comply with the law. ...
A Fairfax spokeswoman on Friday did not answer a question asking whether parents in the county will be allowed to opt out of masking on March 1.  ...

In Arlington Public Schools, which enrolls about 27,000 students, officials presented a slide show to the school board Thursday night, writing in a footnote that masks will become optional March 1.  ...

“APS will continue to require* masks inside our schools to keep schools as safe as possible,” it said. At the bottom of the slide in tiny italic print came the follow-up: “*Senate Bill 739 allows parents to elect for their child to opt out of wearing a mask at school beginning March 1.”

In a later slide, Arlington officials wrote that masking indoors is still recommended by the CDC and that “we have students and staff who have underlying health conditions, are immunocompromised, and are considered high risk.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/18/virginia-districts-relaxing-mask-rules/[/quote]

I’m coming to dislike Miyares quite a bit, but am also pro-mask optional on March 1 (or anytime now). He’ll fight FCPS on this.
https://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/attorney-general-expects-localities-to-comply-in-full-with-new-mask-law/article_66bc19d6-90c3-11ec-b461-3faa4806d3ae.html

Plus there is already a lawsuit against FCPS about the EO, Loudoun style, from some families that decided to unmask after the EO. It’s not what I would do, but there’s a chance that one ends the way Loudoun’s did - parents win, district loses.[/quote]

Lawsuit doc link?[/quote]

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