re: Outlook on mask wearing mandates in Catholic vs. non-Catholic private schools

I do think the masking mandates must correlate with those schools that receive federal or state funds. Perhaps some private schools of which I am aware, which do not require masks, are not even categorized as “private schools” by the state’s legal definition.

I am very grateful for your honesty.

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Other than preventing spitting, sneezing, drooling, or gleeking on people....MASKS....DONT....DO.....shite

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So if you weren't wearing a mask you would go around spitting, sneezing, drooling, and gleeking on others?

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how exposure may impact grandparents they regularly see, could strategically place their children in self-contained classes with other like-minded parents.

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Grandparents should be off limits if your or they are concerned about having serious effects from COVID up to and including death.

My children haven't seen my dad in months. He has severe lung issues and diabetes and COVID would no doubt pose a severe threat of death to him....luckily he has gotten his first vaccine and is on track to the 2nd. Since the Pandemic started I can count the number of people he has seen in person on 1 hand...that includes myself, my sister, my mom, and 2 doctors.

That situation sucks as I know even under the best circumstances he doesn't have many great years left on this planet...and missing my daughter's dance recitals, school funtions, etc is killing him....but it has to happen.

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To me the issue with policies seems to be the great numbers of students in each local Catholic school that are all affected by that one school’s policy. It makes sense why some parents with the means to do so, have chosen homeschooling, learning pods, etc.

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I'm all for having people have school choice....I'm also all for schools having choice on who they accept. If Sally Sue was in 4th grade and chose home school for her 5th grade year due to COVID....sure she can come back to my school and enter 6th grade after she passes an aptitude test....BUT this won't happen.

This is another thing parents harped on so much that my daughter's school just said F it its not worth it and is basically taking any former student back that left and letting them advance to the next grade as if they would have attended the school this year....this is with no proof of schooling at all for the 2020-2021 year.

That is my understanding of spread and effect as well.

I did respond to that earlier. The ones I know of may not be categorized as “private schools” by the state.

Corey de Angelis of Reason Foundation and Cato Institute has been tirelessly campaigning to fund students, not schools. What parent wouldn’t welcome $15,000 per year, per child, to send their children to the schools of their choice? Bypass the teachers’ unions’ stranglehold on education and watch students graduate high school with work skills with which they could support a family. The educational pyramid scheme would collapse.

You completely missed the point. Masks are preventing what wasn’t even happening. Nobody goes around sneezing or spitting on people unless they’re just idiots. Wearing Masks is senseless.

It certainly needs leadership and organization. By any chance is anyone working on this, as a point person for the diocese or the Catholic schools in LA? I understand it is a very personal and political subject, and many may be afraid of the repercussions of questioning authority.