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Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony that those families who take a “wait and see” approach to vaccinating their 12-15 yos are rewarded. These rules are absurd and I hope this change wakes some people up to the insanity going on. Just a note that APE has been advocating for TTS this whole time. Maybe we should start listening to them more, lol.

Agreed. 12-15 yo kids are fully vaccinated bc they have received all their vaccinations. The fact that there isn’t a booster doesn’t make them partially vaxed. Other vaccines are only available after a certain age and kids aren’t excluded before that age from school. How can we push back on this nonsense ?

Send your kid in unless they are actively sick. If questioned, you say “my child is fully up to date with all covid vaccinations recommended and authorized by the CDC for their age group. They are fully vaccinated. They are showing no symptoms and the state requires in school education”.

And what do I do a kid in their Bio class is positive and they are identified as a close contact? There is no reason my kid needs to stay home if we can show a negative test. APS seems to think otherwise.

“I am following the instructions on the APS website. My child is fully vaccinated per the CDC and is exempt from quarantine”.

The new CDC guidance also provides for quarantine for those who are more than 6 months from their second shot (w/o booster). So your statement would not be true.

SB 1303 requires schools to comply with CDC guidance. Yes, “to the extent practicable,” but I’m not sure how much discretion Youngkin will have to force schools to do something different from this recent guidance.

The VA VDOE has already instructed school districts to provide meaningful remote options for their quarantine periods, so I bet we see a return of concurrent learning for at least the first part of the winter.

I hope schools are proactive about sending home kids who present with symptoms when their F’wad parents send their sick kids to school.

The problem is my not-sick child will be exempted for 5 days for no reason when they have received all the vaccinations available to them.

Your anger and annoyance at this inconvenience does not change the science. Your temper tantrum logic makes as much sense as the person who posted “public health recommendations shouldn’t tell me to test because tests are hard to get” and Trump’s logic from the beginning of the pandemic that we’d have less cases if we don’t test.

I’m sorry for the parents of 12-15 yr olds who have largely gone back to normal and are now having that ripped out of under them. Try taking to parents of kids under 5 who, unlike your teen, can’t be left home alone or fix their own lunch during virtual school. For parents of kids under 5, the whole world had moved on without them. Your 12-15 yr olds have had 6 months of nearly normal life and socializing. My 5 and 7 yr olds were fully vaccinated just in time for winter break and had a list of places they wanted to go and play dates they wanted to have - and just as they were getting excited - all of that was taken away from them. We are ALL tired and work down. The data and the science is changing quickly. Your 12-15 yr old might miss some school while it catches up.

Why was all of that taken away from them? Why won’t you let them have play dates? My 11 year old was recently vaccinated and we let her do all that before and still are letting her now. If anything, I feel she is more protected now that she’s recently vaccinated. And yes, my older kids are still able to hang out with friends. You sound like you have a lot of anger but it also sounds like you have been isolating your kids to the extreme.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony that those families who take a “wait and see” approach to vaccinating their 12-15 yos are rewarded. These rules are absurd and I hope this change wakes some people up to the insanity going on. Just a note that APE has been advocating for TTS this whole time. Maybe we should start listening to them more, lol.

Agreed. 12-15 yo kids are fully vaccinated bc they have received all their vaccinations. The fact that there isn’t a booster doesn’t make them partially vaxed. Other vaccines are only available after a certain age and kids aren’t excluded before that age from school. How can we push back on this nonsense ?

Send your kid in unless they are actively sick. If questioned, you say “my child is fully up to date with all covid vaccinations recommended and authorized by the CDC for their age group. They are fully vaccinated. They are showing no symptoms and the state requires in school education”.

And what do I do a kid in their Bio class is positive and they are identified as a close contact? There is no reason my kid needs to stay home if we can show a negative test. APS seems to think otherwise.

“I am following the instructions on the APS website. My child is fully vaccinated per the CDC and is exempt from quarantine”.

The new CDC guidance also provides for quarantine for those who are more than 6 months from their second shot (w/o booster). So your statement would not be true.

SB 1303 requires schools to comply with CDC guidance. Yes, “to the extent practicable,” but I’m not sure how much discretion Youngkin will have to force schools to do something different from this recent guidance.

The VA VDOE has already instructed school districts to provide meaningful remote options for their quarantine periods, so I bet we see a return of concurrent learning for at least the first part of the winter.

I hope schools are proactive about sending home kids who present with symptoms when their F’wad parents send their sick kids to school.

The problem is my not-sick child will be exempted for 5 days for no reason when they have received all the vaccinations available to them.

Your anger and annoyance at this inconvenience does not change the science. Your temper tantrum logic makes as much sense as the person who posted “public health recommendations shouldn’t tell me to test because tests are hard to get” and Trump’s logic from the beginning of the pandemic that we’d have less cases if we don’t test.

I’m sorry for the parents of 12-15 yr olds who have largely gone back to normal and are now having that ripped out of under them. Try taking to parents of kids under 5 who, unlike your teen, can’t be left home alone or fix their own lunch during virtual school. For parents of kids under 5, the whole world had moved on without them. Your 12-15 yr olds have had 6 months of nearly normal life and socializing. My 5 and 7 yr olds were fully vaccinated just in time for winter break and had a list of places they wanted to go and play dates they wanted to have - and just as they were getting excited - all of that was taken away from them. We are ALL tired and work down. The data and the science is changing quickly. Your 12-15 yr old might miss some school while it catches up.