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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Also Ish’s wife doesn’t post anything on Twitter so I think you have the wrong person.[/quote]

The whole Twitter thing is irrelevant.  I don't care what account she may have or what she may have tweeted.  They sent their kids without masks into a public school with immunocompromised classmates.  Apparantly there was an accomodation that would have permitted the kids to wear masks, whatever their medical issue may have been, but this was not what the family initially pursued.  Then, when called out about it, her response, among other things, was to complain on facebook that the rec center made her husband pay a fee for use of space in which her kids and husband were unmasked.

This candidate is a hard no for me.[/quote]

I spoke to Ish at a farmer's market last week and he filled me in on what is actually going on. He is not anti-mask, but his child (who goes to school with my child) and several other children across ACPS have medical conditions that warrant a consideration of an exemption by ACPS. Central Office didn't get back to them until the night before the first day of school and advised them that their child should just sit 6 feet away without a mask. They took it upon themselves that night to schedule a meeting for the next morning before school with central office to figure out a more reasonable accommodation. They and other families are still waiting to hear back from ACPS and that is why LCTA put out the flyer proclaiming that they "presently had no medical exemptions" - because central office still hasn't figured out how to handle families who have medical conditions! As parents, they are also dealing with the effects of no communication or transparency from Hutchings, and that's one of the general problems we all have with ACPS. [/quote]

Nope. I don't believe this self-serving version of events. You don't have to like everything ACPS is doing these days, but no way I believe that these parents were acting appropriately. I don't believe they have legitimate medical exemptions.[/quote]

Agreed.  They were trying to play games and test the system for political reasons and to make a statement on masks.  How is it that now they’ve figured out how to get their kids to wear masks despite their “medical condition”?  The whole situation doesn’t add up. [/quote]

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