Kid home teacher is high risk, should I consider that for mask optional

[Anonymous]

As subject says, would that change your decision when it comes to your child masking or not? Every parents in the class know about that.

[Anonymous]

The teacher is wearing a mask and likely is vaccinated. She/He will be fine.

[Anonymous]

It depends. High risk like asthma, obese or like going through chemo?

[Anonymous]

I would need to know more about why high risk.

[Anonymous]

For me, it would depend not only on what qualifies them for "high risk," but also on my kid and whether I thought masking was negatively impacting them. I'm not willing to ignore that possibility any more.

[Anonymous]

You know if a teacher gets seriously sick you’ll be stuck with a long term sub, right? If they can find one.
But go ahead…

[Anonymous]

Op here. Auto immunocompromised, and yes, teacher is fully vaccinated and fully recovered from covid 2 months ago ( through her own kids attending at other school, not from the school she is teaching). That is considered super high risk, right?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it totally makes a difference for me. I’m partly treating the mask/no mask decisions as being respectful of others and aware of circumstances. So, if your teacher is masking because they are high risk, or because a classmate is, it is a kindness to continue wearing your mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The teacher is wearing a mask and likely is vaccinated. She/He will be fine.

Yea that doesn't work that easily for people who are high risk. And most high risk people has their booster over 5 months ago so any benefit they got from it has waned

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends. High risk like asthma, obese or like going through chemo?

The teacher can stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Auto immunocompromised, and yes, teacher is fully vaccinated and fully recovered from covid 2 months ago ( through her own kids attending at other school, not from the school she is teaching). That is considered super high risk, right?

I think the teacher gets some treatment regularly because there's a permanent sub come in once every 1-2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know if a teacher gets seriously sick you’ll be stuck with a long term sub, right? If they can find one.
But go ahead…

If that teacher is wearing a well fitted N95 or similar, it really doesn’t matter what the kids do. If they’re not wearing a good mask themselves, then they probably aren’t as concerned about it as you are.

Have you spent time in any schools? So many kids with loose fitting cloth or surgical masks or wearing under the nose anyway, which is not effective masking to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it totally makes a difference for me. I’m partly treating the mask/no mask decisions as being respectful of others and aware of circumstances. So, if your teacher is masking because they are high risk, or because a classmate is, it is a kindness to continue wearing your mask.

If you want to keep masking for kindness, be my guest. But please don’t tell your kids that those who choose not to are unkind. We all have our reasons for the choices we make.

[Anonymous]

As courtesy, you can ask your kid to wear their mask in that class to protect the teacher. I assume it's the homeroom teacher, so it's just the first period in the morning? Not sure what "kid home teacher" means in your title.

How do you know she/he is high risk? Did they tell the kids? If so, to be kind, encourage your kid to wear one. Clearly, if the word is out the teacher is high risk, chances are she/he will appreciate more mask wearers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Auto immunocompromised, and yes, teacher is fully vaccinated and fully recovered from covid 2 months ago ( through her own kids attending at other school, not from the school she is teaching). That is considered super high risk, right?

Why would she be "super high risk"? Autoimmune disorders confer some level of immune compromise, but it's hard to tell how much. That she had COVID already and recovered would likely confer some immunity. Also, there's Paxlovid now, which is extremely effective.

How old are your kids? Do they want to unmask? It may be hard to know the latter, since most kids will comply when told to.

The fact that she's a teacher and is still in the classroom suggests to me that she accepts the risk. Most people who are truly seriously immunocompromised wouldn't work as a teacher.