Wacky Texas COVID Rules Push Mom to Home-School for Second Year in a Row
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“Lice is apparently more dangerous in Texas than COVID,” Crystal Blackerby said of coronavirus policies experts slammed for their potential to make a bad situation worse.
In Texas, elementary schools are required by law to notify parents within 48 hours if a student in their child’s class becomes aware they have head lice, and provide Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations on how to treat and prevent the infestation.
But last week, the Texas Education Agency announced that the same practice will not apply to positive cases of the novel coronavirus—despite the mass surge of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the Lone Star State fueled by low vaccination numbers and the highly transmissible Delta variant.
Adding to the chaos, of course, is that most elementary school children are under the age of 12, and therefore not yet eligible for one of the three vaccines available in the United States.
“Lice is apparently more dangerous in Texas than COVID,” Crystal Blackerby, 40, told The Daily Beast on Friday. “Kids can essentially be sent to school with COVID, and parents have zero knowledge of it. It’s just unsafe.”
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