Official word—no more masks as of 3/1/22

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

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Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

My own coworkers said in our group chat “I will be judging teachers who don’t mask.” Which like ok but why tell people? Anyway, do what you want. People will judge either way. I’m so sick of my entire personality and value system being assigned to this mask. I will wear it in surge periods/ winter but we need to remove this stigma of moral deficiency if people take it off in lower risk times. There were 750 new cases in all of VA yesterday. It’s arguably fine to go without at this current time.

Spot on with the personality and value system!!

I am just exercising my choice like everyone else. I am not judging that they still want to wear it.

Why are teachers and schools environments so judgmental? Never heard of a workplace so drama filled and gossipy. My own office dropped the mask requirement yesterday. No discussions about who would or would not mask. We’re just moving on and doing what’s right for each person. Mask optional is a nonevent in my office. And I’m sure we have immunocompromised people, people with kids less than 5, etc in the office building.

80%+ of teachers are a UMC white women. So basically, it’s schools full of Karen’s.

I have worked in both an office in a male dominated field and in a school. The difference in inter-office politics was stark. Both places totally have them, but how they are expressed was different. A lot more gossip in school, a lot more cussing to your face in the male-dominated office.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS, MS and ES-er all went without masks, but I really don't care what anyone else does. I think the crazies on both sides really REALLY want their "view" to be vindicated somehow with...anecdotal stories of bus stop mask counts, or whatever. Its bizarre. Move on people.

My kid who really wants to go mask free was feeling the peer pressure seeing all the masks. Maybe that's some of it?

IDK. My kid is masking because of APs, prom and spring break travel. All the drama kids she knows are masked up because of the spring lay. She wouldn’t mask or unmask just because that’s what the majority of kids are doing. But I’m sure some kids are sheep.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved out of state and our school system approved voluntary masks last May. It took a week or so before students started taking masks off.

The only kids wearing masks in high school are those whose politics drive their mask wearing. Nobody would say anything to them directly, but it’s sad and it’s almost exclusively black students.

Tell me you don’t have a HS junior/senior without telling me you don’t have a HS junior/senior. AP classes and exams. Prom. Spring musicals. Sports seasons. Robotics, MUN, and other academic team finals p. District music assessments. My kid and her friends are staying masked because they would miss too much if they were out ten days.

Why would they be out ten days?

Because if you get COVID, isolation is still 10 days. FCPS has not moved to 5 days plus 5 masked, because “lunch”. So, it might just be cold like symptoms. But it could ruin the AP window, prom, spring musical…

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Anonymous wrote:We moved out of state and our school system approved voluntary masks last May. It took a week or so before students started taking masks off.

The only kids wearing masks in high school are those whose politics drive their mask wearing. Nobody would say anything to them directly, but it’s sad and it’s almost exclusively black students.

Tell me you don’t have a HS junior/senior without telling me you don’t have a HS junior/senior. AP classes and exams. Prom. Spring musicals. Sports seasons. Robotics, MUN, and other academic team finals p. District music assessments. My kid and her friends are staying masked because they would miss too much if they were out ten days.

Why would they be out ten days?

Because if you get COVID, isolation is still 10 days. FCPS has not moved to 5 days plus 5 masked, because “lunch”. So, it might just be cold like symptoms. But it could ruin the AP window, prom, spring musical…

That also implies you believe the masks provide protection. If your kid is wearing a respirator, they do of course. Remember some people choosing to unmask just didn't think the costs of consistently and correctly wearing a respirator all the time were worth it.Other kids, like yours, disagree. Fine either way.

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If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

Our school requires a negative lab test any time your child is absent (for any illness). How do you get around that?

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

Our school requires a negative lab test any time your child is absent (for any illness). How do you get around that?

That's against FCPS policy and has been since the start of the school year. If you keep your kid home (versus them getting sent home from school), no test. It was to incentivize people staying home when sick. You must not be in FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I live that teachers have the option too. It will make it easier for kids to unmask.

I think majority of teachers will keep masking at least till spring break. There are many immunocompromised, pregnant or teachers with little ones at home. My teammate and I just discussed and we both plan on masking for a little while longer.

+1, I’m not risking my spring break travel. So my kids will make until then as will I when I am around students.

Spoken like a true DMV parents, spring break is the most important outcome -- more important than health well-being and safety.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved out of state and our school system approved voluntary masks last May. It took a week or so before students started taking masks off.

The only kids wearing masks in high school are those whose politics drive their mask wearing. Nobody would say anything to them directly, but it’s sad and it’s almost exclusively black students.

Or maybe the black students were more likely to have loved ones suffer from covid and are more motivated to be careful. Most people who wear masks do so because they don't want to get covid, not because they are trying to make some statement.

+1,000,000. Wypipo don't get it. Masks are not political instruments for us. They are life and death decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

Our school requires a negative lab test any time your child is absent (for any illness). How do you get around that?

That's not the policy. It's a negative test IF THEY GET SENT HOME with Covid symptoms.
Just take a photo of a negative at-home covid test once. Then send that photo whenever you need "Proof" of a negative test.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

Agree. No one is missing ten days of school.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

Our school requires a negative lab test any time your child is absent (for any illness). How do you get around that?

Oh, which FCPS school is this? That's not the policy AT ALL.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

Let's be clear, you're going to send your COVID-positive child to school maskless so s/he can infect other kids/teachers/staff? Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid gets Covid, she stays home for a day or two until she feels better. No one is staying home for ten days. Don't be a sucker.

+10000. No one is telling the schools their kids have Covid. Good Lord. Miss prom? They've missed enough.

You people are the problem. Selfish and disrespectful to others.