TEA RELEASES NEW COVID-19 GUIDANCE FOR UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released updated guidance on COVID-19 protocols for public schools ahead of the new school year.
Per the new guidance, school districts cannot require masks, but they must allow individuals to wear them if they choose to do so.
School districts will not have to conduct contact tracing, as the guidance says 2020-21 data shows “very low COVID-19 transmission rates in a classroom setting” and “lower transmission rates among children than adults.”
Districts will not need to issue broad notifications to parents about COVID-19 cases. However, they must report positive cases to the local health department and the Texas Department of State Health Services. Districts do need to notify the parents of students who are found to be close contacts of a positive case.
Students who have or test positive for COVID-19 must not attend school on campus until the conditions for re-entry are met. Remote instruction may be provided during that time.
Parents of students who are considered close contacts can keep their children at home during the recommended 10-day period. Those children can also receive remote instruction.
This inadequate response to the viral infection that has invaded our lives will NEVER be resolved as long as we take our advice from political prostitutes as opposed to qualified medical experts trained in the field of science and medicine. That is a lot to digest for those who are totally mentally depraved! One thing for sure is this; no one and I do mean NO ONE can outlaw masks. Those with common sense will continue to protect themselves as well as others by wearing a mask until COVID and the Delta variant no longer threatens our health and well being. I am amazed at how gullible some people can be to believe “snake oil” salesmen parading as politician who do not have the public good at heart. These lying cons only care about their ability to fool the public and hang onto what they perceive to be “power”. Our children are sacred treasures loaned to us by our God and we should do all we can to protect them. Any society that does not care for it’s women and children is a nation on the brink of extinction. If God does not judge America, HE may well have to apologize for Sodom! Now we know that God will never have to do that. America is being judged and more is to come until we learn to put decency above dollars! When the right people start dying then there will be a change of heart and policy. After all, Pharaoh (Amenhotep II) changed his mind and relented to allow the Hebrew nation to leave Egypt after his first born son died. I rest my case.
The Governor, the TEA and many of our Texas leaders have literally lost their minds !!! The importance of being ‘politically correct’ has overshadowed the health and welfare of all. They are spineless individuals who are afraid to take a stand for what is right. Everyone will never agree on any given topic. That is why we elect LEADERS? (lol), to help guide us in times of chaos. Masks in schools should be mandatory at this time. It is such a simple thing to do. No wonder this world is a MESS. No one wants to follow any rule. Got news for all of you !, real life is full of rules. At some point , if you are a responsible human being, you will have a job and you will have a boss. If you can’t follow the rules, you will be fired. I guess maybe that is why this world is so full of unemployed— they didn;t get their way ! I certainly hope that Mr. Chaplin, the new superintendent of Brenham ISD,, will stand up for what is right for our community. Pay the Gov. his $1,000 fine, and require masks for our schools. The requirement can always be re-evaluated and changed when it is safe to do so. Doing this may save a life and it will certainly be a needed course in teaching our children to be responsible human beings.
Just to be clear, to wear a mask IS politically correct.
You are wrong. Masks in schools are not the answer.
Personal responsibility, getting vaccinated if you need, and natural immunity from being infected are the way this plays out. Covid-19 is here to stay. It will be with us like the flu is, ever year. Most school age children are not affected. Most people recover just fine.
I just got Covid myself, felt bad for a week, olfactory is out of order, but I am feeling better every day. Kids do not need to wear masks. It is not good for their development, socially or mentally.
No masks shouldn’t.
Our county had a MASSIVE spike in strep infection with the mask. If they can get tgee as t they can still get covid.
Texas saw a PLUMMET of covid cases post mandate fir months until the border opened.
And Abbott is NOT SAYING kids can’t wear a mask if they or parents want to.
Let’s use TRUTH and FACT, not virtue signaling.
If that’s the case, please explain how a non-border state like Florida is leading the country in new COVID infections. Maybe, just maybe the science is right and this Delta variant is exponentially more contagious. But go on believing whatever your sister in law on Facebook says. You want this pandemic to end? Go get vaccinated, how did we wipe out smallpox, polio, scarlet fever? Vaccines!
Thank you! Mask wearing IS politically correct!