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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Yea, privates with $40k tuitions. Parochial schools don’t have the resources for school-wide testing.

But most parents do. So do it. Easy. The catholic school system needs to stop functioning like a charity - it has lost too many full pay people to continue as such. Act like a business - like the privates do- and demand better of the folks that utilize school services. Keep everyone safe. A win - win.

Wow. That moves the schools further away from their mission. HINT: They weren’t created to serve the wealthy. Mother Seton weeps.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Yea, privates with $40k tuitions. Parochial schools don’t have the resources for school-wide testing.

But most parents do. So do it. Easy. The catholic school system needs to stop functioning like a charity - it has lost too many full pay people to continue as such. Act like a business - like the privates do- and demand better of the folks that utilize school services. Keep everyone safe. A win - win.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.

Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed. There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids. I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.

Yeah, no.

It’s possible that it’s not the case in MD. Visit any VA school and ask about the petitions generated to end masking. Seriously.

Absolutely not the case in our K-8 school in the Arlington Diocese.

Agree. My 3rd grader is a class full of vaccinated children.

A lot of my children’s classmates are vaccinated. There is also a strong and small very vocal minority who want no masks, no vaccines, and no mitigation requirements. They are super vocal. It is very strange.

Disappointing if schools would not implement measures in fear of a vocal minority. Let them leave and homeschool if they don’t want to be in a school that implements health and safety measures that can enable them to do what they are there to do — teach.

Testing as a minimum mitigation should be non controversial. If you are negative and stay negative, welcome back. Simple as that.

Anonymous wrote:Families who want schools to open should:

1. Wear high quality masks in front of their kids when in public. Children learn by example.
2. Avoid crowded places/socializing with people outside of household.
3. Vax up as much as possible.
4. Not send kids to school with “colds/sniffles/allergies”.

Students with bad mask habits, tend to have anti-mask parents. I see it as a teacher and a parent at our school.

If you want schools to stay open, do your part too.

Teachers quit all the time because they do not feel valued. We see parents schmoozing it up at parties on social media while are spraying down the desks with clorox before students come to class every morning. We keep the windows open in the September heat and the December cold, to increase ventilation in classrooms, We give up our lunch periods so kids can rotate using the lunch room, we alter our lessons when kids cannot work in groups. The list goes on..

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.

Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed. There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids. I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.

Yeah, no.

It’s possible that it’s not the case in MD. Visit any VA school and ask about the petitions generated to end masking. Seriously.

Absolutely not the case in our K-8 school in the Arlington Diocese.

Agree. My 3rd grader is a class full of vaccinated children.

A lot of my children’s classmates are vaccinated. There is also a strong and small very vocal minority who want no masks, no vaccines, and no mitigation requirements. They are super vocal. It is very strange.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.

Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed. There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids. I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

I was about to say something similar. We are not in Arlington but in a small Maryland private school, and I just don’t think they have the means for school-wide testing.

Most of the families at Catholic schools don’t believe in Covid and want masks removed. There’s no way that they would agree to testing their kids. I know families that are Covid positive and plan to send their kids to school with a “cold”.

Yeah, no.

It’s possible that it’s not the case in MD. Visit any VA school and ask about the petitions generated to end masking. Seriously.

Absolutely not the case in our K-8 school in the Arlington Diocese.

Agree. My 3rd grader is a class full of vaccinated children.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Yea, privates with $40k tuitions. Parochial schools don’t have the resources for school-wide testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Yea, privates with $40k tuitions. Parochial schools don’t have the resources for school-wide testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Good lord lady, are you that clueless about the current testing situation? No one’s going to be able to get an asymptomatic test done this weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools going back next week without testing are showing poor leadership. Leadership involves making hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Schools prefer to not be viewed as making decisions or imposing “requirements” that some people may dislike. The same goes for schools not strongly encouraging student vaccines for those kids who are eligible.

Instead, they will bring everyone back and when they don’t have enough staff to teach, or when too many children are sick, they’ll shut it down and go virtual. It’ll be a chaotic couple weeks at these schools.

“Our priority is in person learning” (already stated in this thread) seems admirable on its face. But, if the priority truly was in person learning they would be doing everything possible to stay open. They’d be testing, they’d be implementing stronger mitigations, they’d be encouraging every family to vaccinate. That’s how they can actually stay open and fulfill their missions.

I just don’t see how the logistics of testing everyone would work in a K-8 parochial school. Where would the tests come from?

There are a lot of local testing sites. They don’t have to set them up, but require a PCR test administered between Jan. 1 and 2 (or whatever dates) submitted to the school nurse before you can come back. Several area privates doing it this way.

Good lord lady, are you that clueless about the current testing situation? No one’s going to be able to get an asymptomatic test done this weekend.