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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case?  CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed.  Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.  [/quote]

This is a DCPS policy.[/quote]

That is a pre-vaccination policy.  I don't believe DCPS has updated its policies for this school year.  Still waiting for DOH to issue new guidance following the CDC new guidance.[/quote]

Actually how would it work if there are different quarantine rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated?  One would have to disclose vaccination status, but that brings privacy concerns.  So why not just lie if one is unvaccinated?  Since we won't be able to know who is vaccinated or not, and given that some people will lie about being vaccinated, that means erring on the side of safety and making everyone quarantine.[/quote]

Schools have been collecting student vaccination info since forever. There has never been privacy concerns about your school knowing you got your tdap booster at age 11. I dont see why covid vaccine info would be any different. If there is a covid outbreak in a school, unvaccinated students should quarantine away, obviously, for their health and safety. Vaccinated students shouldn’t have to worry. [/quote]

Privacy concerns are among the teachers.[/quote]

The Mayor's Order dispenses with the privacy concerns and puts the burden on the teachers:  show your proof of vaccination, then no mask required; no proof of vaccination, then you gots to wear the mask.  Pretty simple stuff.[/quote]

Notably, quarantine rules based on exposure have nothing to do with masking.  I'm not sure why this is a pertinent point for you.  Sure, the teachers have to show up, vaxxed or not, and they can take off the mask if they are vaxxed.

But the point about quarantines, which seems to be missed:

Scenario 1:
--DCPS continues to say in the fall that exposure means a two week quarantine, regardless of vax status (that's the current rule)
--a student gets covid, and the whole class (including the teacher) quarantines from home for 2 weeks

Scenario 2: 
--DCPS adopts the CDC guidelines that say that vaxxed people don't need to quarantine if they are exposed
--Scenario 2.A:  the teacher is vaxxed.  A student gets covid, and all the vaxxed students stay in person.  The TEACHER also stays in class, and I guess simulcasts.  The unvaxxed kids go home for 2 week quarantine.
--Scenario 2.B:  the teacher is unvaxxed.  A student gets covid.  The TEACHER must go home for a 2-week quarantine, and so probably ALL of the kids go home for two weeks.  The students' vax status doesn't matter.

Discerning between Scenario 2.A and 2.B requires the teacher to divulge his/her vax status, which s/he is not required to do unless it is contractually negotiated with WTU.  So if s/he doesn't have to divulge their status, it doesn't matter if DCPS adopts the CDC guidance.  Scenario 1 is the same as Scenario 2.

The points:  
1.  Unvaxxed teachers and students increase the likelihood of covid on school grounds, increasing the likelihood of IPL disruptions and simulcasting.  Probably everyone will hate that for various reasons.
2.  Even if DCPS adopts the CDC guidelines about vaccination and quarantine, if teachers don't have to provide vax status, we still are still in Scenario 1.
3.  Maybe we get to Scenario 2.A (the best scenario) if teachers voluntarily provide their vax status.
4.  We never get to Scenario 2.A if the teacher isn't vaxxed.

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