Does mask optional apply to parents/younger sibling (not mcps student) when they enter school?

[Anonymous]

I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

[Anonymous]

Believe it's mask optional for everybody they are a staff student or guest and regardless of vaccine status. My school does not allow guests past the front office but I am not sure if other schools are a little bit more lenient about allowing visitors into the building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

[Anonymous]

No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

You have two choices - mask your 3 year old and hope for the best or remove them from MCPS. We choose to remove our children.

[Anonymous]

Everybody

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

Then you know the PEP kids were regularly taking their masks off before. Some of them never wore masks. I really don’t know what you think masks were accomplishing in that setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Agree to disagree. BTW, mask mandaters are really nasty people with all this name calling across threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

Then you know the PEP kids were regularly taking their masks off before. Some of them never wore masks. I really don’t know what you think masks were accomplishing in that setting.

At least they had some protection from everyone else around then masking. Now they don’t. There’s a difference between a bubble of 4 unmasked pre-k kids in the same classroom and hundreds of k-5 students + staff + bus drivers + teachers + visitors who surround them in that building being unmasked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Were they trash human beings when they didn’t were masks during flu season? Pretty much the same level of risk to kids. Lower right now, actually, since cases are so low compared to typical flu rates.

Like it or not, there are many, MANY parents in MoCo of children under age 5 who will think you are TRASH if you don’t wear a mask around their vulnerable kid.

We’re telling you.

If you DGAF, then whatever, but that’s what you’re doing- making parents of young kids fearful and enraged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you don't have to mask, but any decent person will mask.

Vaccinations are not longer a taking point.

There are plenty of decent people who don't mask. And there are plenty of indecent people masking. There's no correlation.

Anyone who doesn’t mask in public around a child who can’t be vaccinated is a trash human being.

Agree to disagree. BTW, mask mandaters are really nasty people with all this name calling across threads.

I think they are trolls or it’s one troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I and my little one have to go inside school building to drop off/pick up DC at before care/after care, does mask optional apply to us? Or we still have to wear masks because we are not mcps students/staffs?

And, I wonder does head start/prek program at mcps school also allow to be mask optional and they are all under 5 years old/unvaccinated? This question is for my friend.

Yes. It is now mask optional for everyone under 5 and all their teachers, paras, and other staff that are around them.

-unhappy parent of 3 year old in MCPS

Then you know the PEP kids were regularly taking their masks off before. Some of them never wore masks. I really don’t know what you think masks were accomplishing in that setting.

At least they had some protection from everyone else around then masking. Now they don’t. There’s a difference between a bubble of 4 unmasked pre-k kids in the same classroom and hundreds of k-5 students + staff + bus drivers + teachers + visitors who surround them in that building being unmasked.

I understand your anxiety, but your child is so, so much safer now that cases are low and continuing to drop, regardless of mask usage. Celebrate that. If/when they go back up the mandate will be reinstated.