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A month!
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I am burnt out but I do drop in from time to time to see what updates there are. I thought we all stopped using the term herd immunity?

At the small education community I run we are updating our risk level triggers and our quarantine and isolation cutoffs. We are the only school that I am aware of in Central Texas that still requires masks. We spent all last year outdoors when not remote, and three months this year have been painfully remote (Sep, Jan-Feb), during which time no local schools went remote, and the reality is that even though our community takes the pandemic very seriously or at least appreciates the efforts, if we go remote any more we are going to suffer an even greater enrollment drop. Because we filter our air to > 6ACH in each room, and >8 in the bathrooms, plus have excellent ventilation and universal masking with KN95, KF94, or N95s we believe we can shift our risk level assessment protocols so that the triggers for the higher stages have higher incident rates and positivity rates locally, and we are now allowing a small group to remain indoors at risk level 4 (second highest risk level) while the rest are outdoors, and at risk level 5 (highest risk level) we are all outdoors unless the health system is at capacity and then we go remote. I think that barring an extended Omicron type wave in the future that means we can avoid being remote for any more than maybe a week or so.

Starting next year we are going to explicitly state a vaccine requirement (vaccine exemptions will be considered and rarely accepted) which will be painful for some but will serve as a good screening mechanism so we don't bring in any more families who want to argue about Covid safety.

We may seem extreme on the Covid safety end of things (we are, by definition, being the only ones who do this around here) but our community has at its core a charge to center the needs most impacted by our decisions. So we will continue to push ahead until it is financially impossible to remain open. I greatly appreciate all the work that folks have put in to educate others on this board (and the Cardboard before Covid convos were shut down).
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A month! - by M_T - 03-12-2022, 02:01 PM
RE: A month! - by Hurlburt88 - 03-12-2022, 03:12 PM
RE: A month! - by M_T - 03-13-2022, 11:04 AM
RE: A month! - by NoGoldenCalves - 03-19-2022, 05:01 AM
RE: A month! - by Hurlburt88 - 03-20-2022, 10:26 AM

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