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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't read every comment, but curious about how parochial schools will respond. Our school is very pro-mask. But the church it is affiliated with has less than 50% mask wearing during mass. I really have no sense of what the school community would like to see happen - teachers or parents. I personally don't even care that much, I like the extra mask protection but know that the kids don't wear them properly all day anyway, so it seems like theater. I won't be too upset if we have to keep them or if we have to give them up.

But I do wonder if giving up masks makes the exposure notifications different? Right now the school says if the children are masked it's not counted as exposure. So if there are no masks, does that mean every time a child gets covid the whole class has to quarantine? Seems like they need to figure that out before they change the mask policy.[/quote] It appears to be moving target. CDC will share that spending 15 min within 6 feet (even masked) is a close contact. However, some schools will use discretion in allowing masked vaccinated students with close contact (even that is open to interpretation in larger group settings like an assembly or at lunch) to attend if they are asymptomatic, asking parents to test them as well, while telling masked unvaccinated students they have to quarantine no questions asked, no tests will change that. I think schools should use the tools they have - vaccination, masking, social distancing, contact tracing - to keep kids at school. [/quote]

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