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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with other posters here that Bowser is unlikely to lift it anytime soon, as she's a follower, not a leader and has refused to provide real metrics for an off ramp to COVID restrictions (as well as just  renewing her emergency powers again w/out anyone objecting). [b]What will need to happen is more and more kids peacefully resisting this draconian rule (as kids in California and elsewhere are doing now)[/b] and more parents writing to DCPS demanding change.

Long term yes it would be nice if we actually had an opposition party in this town that could push back on the decades long stranglehold of Dem rule in DC.

OK, back to checking how many people were carjacked, robbed, or shot today. . . . . .[/quote]

When winter break ended and every kid was tested to go back, our school sent a communication that kids would be double masked upon entry to school. My children refused (they were wearing kn95s and putting a surgical mask provided by the school under the kn95 would completely defeat its purpose) and were promptly sent to the principal’s office for refusing to comply.[/quote]

Wow. Which school is this? A charter? Our DCPS also pressured everyone to "upgrade" their kids' masks, and the vast majority comply, but nobody was forced. I simply told my kids' teachers we would not be switching to disposables and they told me it was fine. One of them has kept wearing a cloth mask herself. This is in Upper NW. FWIW, neither the teacher with the cloth mask nor my kids ever got Covid.[/quote]

Likely the same school in upper NW. It was resolved with a phone call, but my children are all in separate classrooms and were individually sent by different teachers because they wouldn’t put on the second mask. None of children has had COVID and they are vaccinated to the extent currently permitted for their age group. So it wasn’t forced, but definitely an expectation and I saw many children at pick up those first few weeks with a surgical mask under their kn95. [/quote]

Yes, my kids are vaccinated as well. I have heard from friends at our school that their kids' teachers handed them donated KN95s when they showed up in cloth masks the first day after winter break. They think the teachers were under a lot of pressure from other parents (likely those who donated the masks) to enforce the mask "upgrade". I guess we got lucky that our teachers either aren't under that pressure or are refusing to bow to it. I do believe a lot of this is driven by anxious parents rather than teachers.[/quote]

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