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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).[/quote]

Which charter?[/quote]

We're at Two Rivers, and this sounds like us.  Except they came back a few days later and said they're keeping the outdoor mask mandate for a little while longer because of recent positive COVID tests of students.[/quote]

Just two more weeks!  Because clearly outdoor transmission is a factor here.  :roll: [/quote]

Two Rivers, never change. Keep on completely mishandling COVID and disregarding science.[/quote]

We need to start a list of shame. Two Rivers is definitely on there in the worst tier. Stokes. LAMB. Which other ones have been really bad?

Mundo seems bad but maybe less so? Yu Ying is off the rails but at least it opened last spring earlier than most (even if on a wackadoo schedule).

Breakthrough has been a bit better than those last two. And Sela also opened early.

Which others?

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LAMB at least opened for hybrid last Spring.  I think Cap City never opened at all.

LAMB just allowed outdoor unmasking this week.  [b]They've said that science is confusing [/b]so they will maybe announce next week a timeline for lifting indoor masking, after they poll everyone.[/quote]

NP. Well, if they are confused by the science, the right thing to do would be to follow CDC guidance. That's why we have experts who write these guidelines, so that random school administrators don't have to try to figure this out on their own.[/quote]

Exactly, but we have to consider FEELINGS.  Feelings about science.  Feelings about safety.  Feelings about feelings.[/quote]

Here’s the whole message. Seems LAMB feels the need to develop its own metrics even though the CDC has already done that, and DC Health adopted those guidelines. Truly baffling and disappointing:

LAMB has been working on our process for rolling back COVID restrictions, particularly mask mandates. The city has recently made significant changes to the school requirements and regulations regarding safety measures. These changes reflect a shift in the overall city’s focus from keeping individual students and staff safe in school environments to keeping the overall community at a low “community level.” Each local education agency (LEA) is now responsible for determining how it will approach safety.

LAMB will continue to prioritize safety and equity as we move into this new phase. This means our focus will continue to be on keeping individual students and staff safe. We will be taking the following into account:
We understand that feeling safe is an important part of being safe - for both students and staff - and it is not always easy to ensure everyone feels safe. We continue to have sporadic positive cases in both primary and elementary classrooms, and want to make sure those do not increase.
Following the science is important, but it is not always clear. We are still beginning to understand the long-term effects of COVID, even in mild cases, especially among children.
Mask requirements, in particular, have a wide variety of impacts on adults and students that change depending on age, instructional needs, personal or family risk levels, health history, health care access, and more.
We plan to finalize a schedule and plan for moving to optional masks indoors based on some important feedback from you. Our general approach includes:
Identifying metrics that would initiate an immediate return to wearing masks indoors by classroom, level, and/or the whole school if necessary.
Removing indoor mask requirements first at the elementary level and then the primary level.
Being ready to move back to indoor masking, outdoor masking, or other safety measures should we experience a suspected outbreak in the school or a rise in cases in the community.
To understand how our community feels about indoor masks requirements, we ask that you take this short survey. The survey results will be reported back out to the community along with the detailed plan for rolling back mask requirements. Please complete by Monday, April 4.[/quote]

wow. reading this is driving me crazy. these arguments are so, so bad.

they're determining that the CDC and city's move to community rates isn't conservative enough so they're making their own metrics?
they're claiming that FEELING safe equates to actual safety?
they believe in this long-covid nonsense as though it is anything other than a regular post-viral syndrome?
their first (and clearly main) priority in a mask policy is re-instituting it?

a school, presumably comprised of people whose positions require that they be the "experts" to children are discarding expert advice in favor of sheer fear and FEELINGS. this poll seems like nothing other than a cover to continue masking forever.

just abject rejection of science[/quote]

I know. I really like the school otherwise. This is so incredibly frustrating. The parents who want the mandate removed just don’t speak up.[/quote]

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