MONTGOMERY COUNTY BARS NON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM OPENING IN THE FALL, NO RELIGIOUS OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS NEED APPLY - GOVERNMENT SAYS YOU WILL STAY CLOSED

For those residents making arrangement for---or paying for--out of state in-person schooling for their children....some news to be potentially aware of..............

MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND 8/4---School leaders and parents outraged over Montgomery County’s closure of nonpublic schools

Casting aside the standards of the Centers for Disease Control and Maryland health officials, County Executive Marc Elrich and his health officer, Travis Gayles, on Friday night announced they would bar nonpublic schools from opening in the fall for in-person instruction.   On Saturday, after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan publicly expressed his disagreement with Elrich's and Gayles’s decision, county officials privately tried to convince Hogan that the nonpublic schools were fine with the government barring their doors. That’s not true.

“This decision was a real sucker punch,” said Robert Gold, the co-founder and executive director of the Feynman School. “We were really trying hard to make a plan this year to keep everybody safe,” he told me Saturday evening. The school consulted with experts, including a National Institutes of Health scientist, and Gold said one mom, a pediatrician, said “absolutely no qualms.”

“The notion that the schools are okay couldn’t be further from the truth.”  “It's an intrusion on the responsibility and rights of families to determine what is best for their children,” said Kevin Davern, headmaster of the Avalon School on Saturday. “It unreasonably treats small schools that are able to take reasonable and workable precautions like the conglomerated schools that cannot.” "The thought that everyone in this community is happy with this is baloney," Rabbi Zev Katz, principal of the girls' division of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington told me. “This seems like tremendous governmental overreach."  READ MORE AT https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/school-leaders-and-parents-outraged-over-montgomery-countys-closure-of-nonpublic-schools

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CNBC, THANK YOU TOM FARANDA FOR BRINGING THIS TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION.

CDC warns of "significant health consequences if schools DO NOT reopen this fall.

At last some clarity. See more at https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2020/07/cdc-warns-of-significant-health-consequences-if-schools-do-not-reopen-this-fall-.html

UPDATED MONTGOMERY COUNTY OVER-RIDDEN https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/08/maryland-governor-overrides-county.html