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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS is forcing people to teach their kids to lie. This is something I usually would never do, but this policy is just too stupid to follow. We just traveled to visit vaccinated family - drove, didn’t eat anywhere indoors, didn’t take the kids into any indoor public places (except the occasional bathroom along the road, and then we were masked). The area we visited had similar vaccination rates as DC.

Then they attended summer acceleration under strict orders not to mention the trip. Sorry, DCPS![/quote]

I feel for you. Sounds pretty safe.

We've decided NOT to travel so our kids don't have to lie. That too is an option.

Can you vouch for the rest of the travelers going out of the DMV? [/quote]

No, but I’m pretty sure those who are traveling less safely than we did also won’t have any qualms about teaching their kids to lie. Not to mention there are many opportunities to behave much more riskily in MD or VA.

And, yes, it is always an option to follow even the most nonsensical rule in order to avoid having to lie. I guess my commitment to honesty, which I otherwise consider to be quite solid, doesn’t go as far as yours. In my mind, there is also a difference between honesty and blind adherence to rules. I’m the person who would always tell a cashier if they rung up my purchase at too low a price, who would never sell you a car with hidden defects I know about, and who would never send my sick kid to school on Tylenol. But this policy? I make my own judgment.[/quote]

+1.

The rules are arbitrary. The things that actually affect safety are legal, such as eligible people refusing to get vaccinated, taking your kid to restaurants in DC, and having people outside your immediate family in your home or you in theirs.[/quote]

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