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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would vote for her if she could say something like "I will definitely not support council efforts to close schools again and move to return normalcy to kids."  Hell, I'd vote for Mendo if he said that.

One issue voter right now.[/quote]

In what universe do you think the Council is going to move to close schools again? That ship has sailed. No one even has the guts to propose a return to mandatory masks in schools when disease spread is high. It’s normal again, whether we like it or not. Time to find a new issue to obsess over.[/quote]

Well, when the Council considered closing schools in January, 2022, I began to think all bets are off.  I have zero trust that the wackadoodles on the Council won't try something again.  [b]Hell, we are still the only place in the country with a vaccine mandate for all schoolkids[/b], despite the fact that the vaccines for the 5-11 set are proving to be fairly useless for the people that get them or for anyone around them.[/quote]

This is false one way or another. We do not have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids. We are not the only place with general vaccine requirements for normal childhood vaccines.[/quote]

Yes, we do have a covid vaccine mandate for schoolkids, once the vaccine moves out of EUA:  https://dccouncil.us/student-covid-vaccine-mandate-ward-redistricting-receive-final-council-approval/

Why lie?

We appear to be the only school district in the country with such a mandate.[/quote]

DP, and while you are technically correct, I view that mandate as window dressing. First, I actually think there's no way the 5-11 vaccines move out of the EUA to full approval unless/until the vaccines get significantly better. Which is going to be hard because Covid is still mutating and the newer variants have been more vaccine-evasive. I think we are years from the pediatric Covid vaccines being able to meet the higher scrutiny vaccines get for this age group.

BUT even if they do approve give full approval to the 5-11 vaccine (the very earliest I think this could happen would be 2023 so we aren't even talking about the upcoming school year), no way DC enforces it. Fewer than 50% of this age group is vaccinated in DC, and many of them didn't get the full course (one shot only). Interest in boosters is even lower. And the people vaccinating this age group are overwhelmingly white and higher income. DCPS is not going to refuse to allow a significant percentage of the city's highest risk kids to attend school over a vaccine. They might set up vaccine clinics up schools and heavily advise it, but there is zero chance the vaccine mandate actually gets enforced.

It was idiotic for the council to pass that legislation but fortunately, it is toothless and unenforceable.[/quote]

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