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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can also see APE’s advocacy page, where they specifically advocate for adequate PPE (for which they’ve apparently been fundraising), and for infrastructure improvements to ensure schools are safe environments.  I hadn’t paid much attention to APE before this, but I’m actually really impressed by their approach to this.

http://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/arlington-parents-for-education/our-advocacy/[/quote]

What I don't see is significant:  I don't see concern about enforcement for masks on kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance, and I also don't see concern about enforcement for social distancing by kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance.  When I start to see and hear more about what behaviors for kids are not acceptable, what the enforcement practices will be, and what the consequences will be for noncompliance, then I will start to give a hoot about APE.  Until then they can take a hike.[/quote]

There go those goalposts...

APE also doesn’t advocate for better federal coordination of vaccine distribution, but that doesn’t mean they oppose it. Try to remember that policy setting, particularly at the level of detail you’re addressing, is set by APS and not APE.[/quote]

I'm in Fairfax and don't have a dog in this fight, but the mask compliance thing is absolutely significant. Ask anyone in FCPS, including parents who want their kids in person. FCPS punted on it and now there are parents who are very upset when they find out their child may be in a class with a student with an exemption, they won't find that out ahead of time, and there's nothing the school can do about it if a student comes back in person and then gets an exemption a couple weeks later. They also want reassurance that students who don't keep masks on will be sent back to distance learning and more details about consequences for noncompliance. If there's a positive case in a classroom where a student didn't have a mask on, the 6' / 15 minute rule is useless and the whole class plus is supposed to be quarantined. The comments on live-streamed school board meetings about the issue are lengthy. Same with newspaper articles about the policy in FCPS. Staff members are upset and a lot of people with relatively mild health issues who aren't interested in fully remote ADA accommodations will be trying to get accommodations that they do not have to work in a classroom where there's a mask exemption or where a student isn't keeping a mask on. Expect that to have a ripple effect if masks are still required next year. APE should pay close attention to what's going on with its biggest neighbor and throw their full weight behind this. APS absolutely could take a hard line stance that would save them a lot of problems going forward.[/quote]

DP.  Thank you for your response.  It is a lot to think about.  As a parent it is my biggest concern.  I think that the school system, administrators and teachers will go in with the best intentions; however, I very much worry that suddenly there will be a school filled with kids who aren't wearing masks and parents who are willing to defend their kids' rights to be maskless to the end.  It sounds like a horror story.  School in person isn't worth it when DL is so much safer.[/quote]

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