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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It won’t go into effect until 1/24. But from what I gather even if LCPS institutes one, parents can opt out. I’m a teacher and I imagine 50% of my kids will immediately drop them and 50% will keep them. Makes me a little worried about my own kids but nothing much can be done. I’m not even fully opposed to dropping them (last spring in person we arguably didn’t need them) but not in the height of omicron. [/quote]

I think kids who don’t wear masks should be disciplined and if the new administration tries to challenge it you take them to court where they will lose.

Peer pressure is also a big thing for teens. Most kids are pro-mask so the ones who take them off will be ostracized. That may help.[/quote]

Most kids aren’t pro mask. Not even close. I teach teenagers every day, I know very well their mask adherence. And I stand by my comment, if they are allowed, 50% will immediately remove them. Then as time goes on and that becomes normalized another 20-30% will slowly take theirs off too. By school year end I would wager only 10-20% would still be willingly and diligently wearing them if they’re not required. [/quote]

They won’t be taking them off if they are ordered by the school to keep them on.

The new governor’s executive order has no teeth. Schools will continue to mandate masks at least during this surge and anyone who says Youngkin says I don’t have to wear one will be sent home. I know someone will go wining to Tucker about it but he doesn’t care anymore — they are working on whatever boogeyman they can create for the midterms and don’t care about northern Virginia schools anymore. Miyares can try to sue on a student’s behalf but it will be laughed out of court and he will have wasted political capital. I see mask use in place until Spring Break.

I have also told my kids they are to instruct their peers who remove masks that they are to put them back on. [/quote]

Why does the EO have less teeth than the last governor's EO?  Because you don't like it?  Your kids won't have many friends.[/quote]

The current EO could be in conflict with SB 1303 which requires districts to provide “in-person instruction and provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”.[/quote]

Well it’s not practical to adhere to Cdc because the EO says you cant!
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The EO doesn’t say that. It’s quite clear everyone is telling Youngkin to phuck right off. No one will comply with his dumb orders. Hell of a way to start a term — emasculated on the first work day of his administration.[/quote]

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