The two daughters of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will have to be quarantined for seven to ten days after returning from their now infamous trip to Cancún – and they will miss classes at their expensive private school all week, according to a report.
The strict rules imposed by the pandemic on Houston’s elite St. John’s School were reported by the Politico – and show only the latest costs of the senator’s deaf trip to the Mexican tourist city, made while millions of its constituents suffered from cold, power outages. and water scarcity.
Cruz faced a setback for the trip from all angles, including Houston police chief and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
Even more negative reaction came when he blamed the girls, 10 and 12, for the trip, which he said he asked to take the tour. On Thursday, he had confessed that it was “obviously a mistake”.
So many parents heatedly commented on the trip on the Facebook page to the exclusive $ 31,820 a year school that administrators closed the site for comments, Politico said.
The school requires all students traveling abroad to go through a 7-10 day quarantine upon return and the school does not have an online instruction option.
A few weeks before the trip to Cruz, the parents were told about traveling through the school pandemic in an email, the Politico noted.
“At the end of the day, he is taking the pressure to use his children as an excuse to take a vacation. And that is a mistake, ”said mother Lara Hollingsworth to the website.
“From the parents’ point of view, all I’m asking is for the school to follow the CDC guidelines, and I have to say that I have no reason to believe that they won’t.”
“I don’t feel bad for him,” Victoria Konar, another mother, told Politico. “There are people who are bothered by those who think they are the VIPs at this school and who do not want to be bothered to follow the rules because it violates their social life.”
Representatives of the Cross say that children will follow the policy.
“Sen. Cruz’s daughters plan to follow St. Johns policy, ”a senator spokesman told the Post.
St. John’s did not immediately respond to a request for comment.