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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

This is a DCPS policy.

That is a pre-vaccination policy. I don't believe DCPS has updated its policies for this school year. Still waiting for DOH to issue new guidance following the CDC new guidance.

Actually how would it work if there are different quarantine rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated? One would have to disclose vaccination status, but that brings privacy concerns. So why not just lie if one is unvaccinated? Since we won't be able to know who is vaccinated or not, and given that some people will lie about being vaccinated, that means erring on the side of safety and making everyone quarantine.

Schools have been collecting student vaccination info since forever. There has never been privacy concerns about your school knowing you got your tdap booster at age 11. I dont see why covid vaccine info would be any different. If there is a covid outbreak in a school, unvaccinated students should quarantine away, obviously, for their health and safety. Vaccinated students shouldn’t have to worry.

Privacy concerns are among the teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

This is a DCPS policy.

That is a pre-vaccination policy. I don't believe DCPS has updated its policies for this school year. Still waiting for DOH to issue new guidance following the CDC new guidance.

Actually how would it work if there are different quarantine rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated? One would have to disclose vaccination status, but that brings privacy concerns. So why not just lie if one is unvaccinated? Since we won't be able to know who is vaccinated or not, and given that some people will lie about being vaccinated, that means erring on the side of safety and making everyone quarantine.

Schools have been collecting student vaccination info since forever. There has never been privacy concerns about your school knowing you got your tdap booster at age 11. I dont see why covid vaccine info would be any different. If there is a covid outbreak in a school, unvaccinated students should quarantine away, obviously, for their health and safety. Vaccinated students shouldn’t have to worry.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

Fauci just said the other day that vaccinated people can spread Covid, particularly the delta variant. If true, that means there is no logic to allowing vaccinated without masks and unvaccinated with when you are talking about indoors for hours with the same people in which circumstances spread is more readily likely even at low virus rates

You're in no position to question the Mayor's order. Teachers must report, vaccinated or not. There is no quarantine any more. The jig us up.

Friend, I think you are perceiving something that isn't there. The educators that at least are commenting on this thread have no where suggested they are not coming in to work in the Fall.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

This is a DCPS policy.

That is a pre-vaccination policy. I don't believe DCPS has updated its policies for this school year. Still waiting for DOH to issue new guidance following the CDC new guidance.

Actually how would it work if there are different quarantine rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated? One would have to disclose vaccination status, but that brings privacy concerns. So why not just lie if one is unvaccinated? Since we won't be able to know who is vaccinated or not, and given that some people will lie about being vaccinated, that means erring on the side of safety and making everyone quarantine.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

Fauci just said the other day that vaccinated people can spread Covid, particularly the delta variant. If true, that means there is no logic to allowing vaccinated without masks and unvaccinated with when you are talking about indoors for hours with the same people in which circumstances spread is more readily likely even at low virus rates

You're in no position to question the Mayor's order. Teachers must report, vaccinated or not. There is no quarantine any more. The jig us up.

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

Fauci just said the other day that vaccinated people can spread Covid, particularly the delta variant. If true, that means there is no logic to allowing vaccinated without masks and unvaccinated with when you are talking about indoors for hours with the same people in which circumstances spread is more readily likely even at low virus rates

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Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

Fauci just said the other day that vaccinated people can spread Covid, particularly the delta variant. If true, that means there is no logic to allowing vaccinated without masks and unvaccinated with when you are talking about indoors for hours with the same people in which circumstances spread is more readily likely even at low virus rates

Anonymous wrote:why would middle and high schools close when there is a positive case? CDC guidance says vaccinated people don't have to quarantine when exposed. Send the unvaccinated home and let the sane, vaccinated students continue their education.

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Anonymous wrote:When it comes to quarantine it won’t matter if your teacher is vaccinated or not. We had quarantined at my school and I was vaccinated. The kids still went home. I had to teach from my classroom alone.

There is no quarantine, Sherlock. Get off your couch and report.

Anonymous wrote:When it comes to quarantine it won’t matter if your teacher is vaccinated or not. We had quarantined at my school and I was vaccinated. The kids still went home. I had to teach from my classroom alone.

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Anonymous wrote:The OP's point is that the unvaxxed are hurting the educational attainmnent of the vaxxed, by leading to more school shut-downs. The OP would like schools to stay open. The suggested solution is to keep the unvaxxed off school grounds. But, if you don't allow unvaxxed kids to learn in person, you should also not allow unvaxxed teacher to teach in person. Probably not allowing the unvaxxed teachers to teach in person will hurt school reopening (and will impact the vaxxed kids' education). Ergo, only allowing the vaxxed on school grounds doesn't actually help the OP's desire to have consistent in-person learning for kids.

The Mayor's order makes clear that teachers gotta show up for work. Wear a mask or get vaccinated is the new rule. The status to the kids is irrelevant to the Mayor's Order with regard to teachers.

Anonymous wrote:When it comes to quarantine it won’t matter if your teacher is vaccinated or not. We had quarantined at my school and I was vaccinated. The kids still went home. I had to teach from my classroom alone.

Anonymous wrote:The OP's point is that the unvaxxed are hurting the educational attainmnent of the vaxxed, by leading to more school shut-downs. The OP would like schools to stay open. The suggested solution is to keep the unvaxxed off school grounds. But, if you don't allow unvaxxed kids to learn in person, you should also not allow unvaxxed teacher to teach in person. Probably not allowing the unvaxxed teachers to teach in person will hurt school reopening (and will impact the vaxxed kids' education). Ergo, only allowing the vaxxed on school grounds doesn't actually help the OP's desire to have consistent in-person learning for kids.