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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe they want to give a little time to see if the unmasking (combined with regular testing) leads to a lot of positives, which would keep a lot of kids out of school. What’s a couple weeks? Let the rest of DC experiment first.[/quote]

You're saying that each individual charter leader is going to conduct a study that will quell the fears of the anxious parents in two weeks?  Because charter leaders are epidemiologists or public health experts?[/quote]

It gives those parents time to calm down. I am not one of them but I could have been.

Its not killing your kid to wear a mask for two more weeks. Also, its a charter. You are choosing to be there and now you are pissed they don't do what you say. Its not a private school. You can go IB but then gasp you will be around people in your neighborhood.[/quote]

If national public health guidance, local public health guidance, the behavior of nearly all schools globally and nationally, and the behavior of most schools locally isn't enough to make them calm, what's two weeks going to do?[/quote]

I wonder if there are parents that just believe that their charters will...uh....not lift the indoor mask mandates, particularly for 3-4 YOs.  That's what parents in my charter are advocating for.[/quote]

Parents at our charter do not seem to want PK3-4 to lift indoor mask mandates until a vaccine is available - which seems reasonable. [/quote]

How is that reasonable when masks in that age group do approximately nothing, these kids are extremely low risk from Covid, we have no idea if the vaccine will be effective against transmission for more than a month? This is purely based on feelings.[/quote]

Because these are YOUR feelings, not facts. The science says that masks do filter and prevent some transmission. These kids are at risk (hospitalizations, death, etc.). The science of Pfizer augured for higher dosing - not dozing a six month old like 4.6 year old and Moderna has higher dosages, vaccines are pegged to particular strains, so vaccine is quite effective at Delta, less effective as to omicron, could be effective against deltacron -which is not yet here. PK3-4 are not required grades so if the antivax/mask crowd can home-school, etc. if they feel so strongly about it. [/quote]

Considering that you can’t put together a coherent sentence, I don’t think you are in any position to lecture anyone on “the science”… [/quote]

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