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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello.  I just read a PTA email that said masks would be optional starting March 1.  Has anyone else heard a date?[/quote]

What PTA sent that?  ACPS school board hasn’t even voted on the issue yet.[/quote]

What do they need to vote on? The ability to opt out of wearing a mask is now the law. [/quote]

Just because something was signed into law doesn’t  mean it’s automatically enforceable and binding.  Plenty of illegal laws on the books.  Some of this regarding masking in schools  is still playing out in the courts, including a challenge under federal ADA for students with disabilities.[/quote]

I can guarantee they will follow the law AND they would not do anything that might ever cause them to be accused of segregating students within a school on purpose and with intent. And if you didn’t know that, you haven’t paid attention.

If you are that fearful, homeschool. Seriously. To act as if some unmasked little kids will cause your masked child harm is the height of paranoia and you should embarrassed by your hysteria.[/quote]

You all love to accuse everyone of paranoia and hysteria.  I was merely commenting from a legal perspective, no fear over here.  You read way too much into my comments!  My kids will continue attending school in person, but thanks for suggesting homeschooling.[/quote]

Schools “segregate” students all the time according to characteristics they can legally do so (ie they cannot segregate on race, need to put disabled children in the least restrictive environment, etc.). I don’t think it is clear that there is anything stopping a school from “segregating” students at least to some extent based on whether there parents direct their children to put others at risk by not wearing a mask.[/quote]

Let me explain for you since you can’t seem to figure it out

All it takes is one non white student who is not wearing a mask and a white student who is wearing a mask:
“‘my mommy says kids like you need to be put in a separate room and I am supposed to stay away from you. ”
or perhaps the monmy at pick up time gets overheard “I don’t want my child around kids like that! they need to put them in a separate room together so they don’t infect the others” 
The news stories and headlines would read “ Alexandria City parents accuse the school of segregation. In a flashback to the City’s past ….”
ACPS knows their white parents too well and no way they are going to take any chances. 
So if you are worried get your kid whatever mask or maybe industrial respirator? Or homeschool.[/quote]

DP.  It is a smaller number of people who want their kids to unmask; ergo, they should be the ones who homeschool or go virtual.  Let the rest of us continue as we have been, with masks on kids and masks on teachers.  Majority rules.[/quote]

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