{"id":357273,"date":"2021-12-08T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357273"},"modified":"2021-12-08T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:02:46","slug":"pss-will-not-discriminate-regardless-of-vaccination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pss-will-not-discriminate-regardless-of-vaccination-status\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018PSS will not discriminate regardless of vaccination status\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Public School System\u2019s efforts to keep students safe from COVID-19, CNMI Board of Education chair Andrew L. Orsini said that PSS will continue with safety measures already in place and that PSS will not discriminate against any student regardless of their vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what measures are in place or in the works to protect PSS\u2019 unvaccinated students when in-person classes resume, Orsini cited a part of the CNMI Constitution that requires PSS to offer education to all children. As such, PSS will continue on with its current safety measures and \u201cwill not discriminate against any student, be they vaccinated or vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_353470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353470\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-353470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Andrew-L.-Orsini-mug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew L. Orsini\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orsini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PSS\u2019 COVID-19 safety measures include sanitizing all surfaces, wearing face coverings, wearing gloves when necessary, maintaining social distancing, and checking temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PSS will not discriminate against any student, be they vaccinated or vaccinated. The Constitution of the NMI states that we have to offer education to all children and that education is mandatory. We will continue practicing the safety measures for all our students,\u201d said Orsini.<\/p>\n<p>In an email Monday, Orsini also had a message to parents and guardians of unvaccinated children. \u201cOur only message to parents of unvaccinated children is to inform their child to be aware of the safety measures that are already in place for their child\u2019s safety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly addressing the three cases of COVID-19 found on Oct. 28 through a collaboration among PSS, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., and the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force, Orsini made clear that \u201cschools did not bring or spread the virus into our community.\u201d Rather, through PSS\u2019 school-based testing sites \u201cwe were able to know the virus was already here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Public School System\u2019s efforts to keep students safe from COVID-19, CNMI Board of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":353471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}