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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does lifting the masking mandate only apply to public schools? I’m confused.[/quote]

Privates can do whatever they want now. [/quote]

The mandate covered all k-12 schools.  The crazy thing is Youngkin is even trying to prohibit private schools from requiring masks, if you read the language of the order.

“A child whose parent has elected that he or she is not subject to a mask mandate should not be required to wear a mask under any policy implemented by a teacher, school, school district, the Department of Education, or any other state authority.”

What happened to letting private entities make their own decisions without government interference?[/quote]

Privates that followed the Northam EO will need to follow the Youngkin EO. [/quote]

Not sure why you think that.  Northam’s EO was consistent with CDC recommendations, while Youngkin’s is contrary to it.  Here is what VA Code says about it:

§ 2. Each school board shall offer in-person instruction to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public elementary and secondary school for at least the minimum number of required instructional hours and to each student enrolled in the local school division in a public school-based early childhood care and education program for the entirety of the instructional time provided pursuant to such program. For the purposes of this act, [b]each school board shall[/b] (i) adopt, implement, and, when appropriate, update specific parameters for the provision of in-person instruction and (ii) [b]provide such in-person instruction in a manner in which it adheres, to the maximum extent practicable, to any currently applicable mitigation strategies for early childhood care and education programs and elementary and secondary schools to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 that have been provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[/b][/quote]

1) “school boards” concern public, municipal schools and doesn’t cover privates and 2) I would like to see a definition of “practicable”. To me that’s the trigger word. What one school thinks is practicable and another will not.

I’m not sure around here but near Richmond I expect Hanover and New Kent to make masks discretionary after the 24th. I am from Richmond and have some contacts who teach in the big privates down there and they’re telling me many of their schools are on the fence. It’s not a done deal one way or the other. The big concern seems to be discipline against a student/family who won’t wear a mask after the 24th. As of now they are sent to the office and can be suspended. But after the 24th does the school still want to take this approach?  [/quote]

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