School Asking DC To Mask To Accomodate An Other

[Anonymous]

OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

I’m assuming this is an actual accomodation request under 504. So the fault actually lies with the school for agreeing that peer masking is a reasonable accomodation. I’m sorry to say that what’s going to happen is a lot of scheduling problems because so many kids will not agree to mask. The school may have to either cancel classes if it can’t staff two smaller classes, have one very large unmasked and one small masked class, have a sub for one of the classes, or even say the kids who won’t mask can’t take the class at all (if its an elective). Under the noxious ACLU settlement they are not allowed to “segregate” the child with a 504 or require that they take the class virtually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

you can thank the ACLU of Virginia for that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still don't get the premise. They want the whole class to mask or just OP's kid who sits near? If the latter, why not just change seats instead of making OP's kid switch classes? If the former, does that mean every other child in class has agreed to mask and they want to switch OP's kid because they're the only holdout? Hard to believe.

Hard to believe...except that these are the same people who closed schools for two years ignoring all science and worldwide best practices.

OP, let this be a wake up call to find a better school.

Schools were not closed two years. They went virtual for a year and a quarter. Science said it’s a bad idea to have that many people in indoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

Wow, something is seriously wrong with you if you are that uncaring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I still don't get the premise. They want the whole class to mask or just OP's kid who sits near? If the latter, why not just change seats instead of making OP's kid switch classes? If the former, does that mean every other child in class has agreed to mask and they want to switch OP's kid because they're the only holdout? Hard to believe.

Hard to believe...except that these are the same people who closed schools for two years ignoring all science and worldwide best practices.

OP, let this be a wake up call to find a better school.

Schools were not closed two years. They went virtual for a year and a quarter. Science said it’s a bad idea to have that many people in indoors.

rofl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

Wow, something is seriously wrong with you if you are that uncaring.

ITS NOT ABOUT CARING. when will you weirdos get it through your head that a mask is not a symbol proving your morality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

So then just don't respond. I really doubt that 140 sets of parents will agree to this. No need to be the face of it. I doubt even 10 families would agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

Wow, something is seriously wrong with you if you are that uncaring.

ITS NOT ABOUT CARING. when will you weirdos get it through your head that a mask is not a symbol proving your morality.

I'm not the poster you are responding to but actually it is about caring. You act as if this is the first time society has been faced with trying to figure out how people who are different from each other can coexist together.


Obviously this would be much easier for all of us to Monday night quarterback if we knew what the medical situation was, but we don't. Try a little compassion and thinking about how we can coexist rather than everyone different from you needs to home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

Wow, something is seriously wrong with you if you are that uncaring.

ITS NOT ABOUT CARING. when will you weirdos get it through your head that a mask is not a symbol proving your morality.

I'm not the poster you are responding to but actually it is about caring. You act as if this is the first time society has been faced with trying to figure out how people who are different from each other can coexist together.


Obviously this would be much easier for all of us to Monday night quarterback if we knew what the medical situation was, but we don't. Try a little compassion and thinking about how we can coexist rather than everyone different from you needs to home school.

The point is that peer mask mandates are *ineffective.* A mask is not a way ro demonstrate compassion. And we do not give limitless accomodations for disabled students - my child IS disabled, and I know there are clear limits as to what I can expect other kids to have to do. And of course, your little self-righteous screed is based on the fiction that masking is easy and doesn’t impose any burdens. Which is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

I can't imagine some family telling 140 other families to wear masks whenever their kid is around in pre-Covid times. If this child is not healthy enough to go to school, the family should home school or find tutors. If it were for a week or two it'd be one thing, but to tell 140 kids they need to mask up again for an entire school year is too much. Plus most kids don't wear masks properly anyway. It's pointless. Sounds like a high drama family imposing their neurosis on everyone else.

Wow, something is seriously wrong with you if you are that uncaring.

ITS NOT ABOUT CARING. when will you weirdos get it through your head that a mask is not a symbol proving your morality.

I'm not the poster you are responding to but actually it is about caring. You act as if this is the first time society has been faced with trying to figure out how people who are different from each other can coexist together.


Obviously this would be much easier for all of us to Monday night quarterback if we knew what the medical situation was, but we don't. Try a little compassion and thinking about how we can coexist rather than everyone different from you needs to home school.

The point is that peer mask mandates are *ineffective.* A mask is not a way ro demonstrate compassion. And we do not give limitless accomodations for disabled students - my child IS disabled, and I know there are clear limits as to what I can expect other kids to have to do. And of course, your little self-righteous screed is based on the fiction that masking is easy and doesn’t impose any burdens. Which is not true.

Sadly I am too familiar with the limits of accommodations for students who need them. I also have a child for whom masking was very difficult and, IMO, had some delays as a result. It is possible to have experience on both sides of the masking debate.

I suppose surgeons in operating rooms wear masks because they are ineffective?

[Anonymous]

It would be no big deal for my kid to wear a mask for an hour to help protect another kid's health. Win/win. Protect the other child and teach my kid to care about others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be no big deal for my kid to wear a mask for an hour to help protect another kid's health. Win/win. Protect the other child and teach my kid to care about others.

That’s how we would handle this. I see this as an opportunity to teach our own children how to be good citizens. I say this as someone who happily ditched masks, too. I haven’t bought any in a very long time, but I would for this.

I doubt the school will face a scheduling nightmare. I’m confident plenty of families will see it from a similar perspective as mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

This is ACPS.

This is for the entire school year. Something like 140 kids have to wear a mask all year for an undisclosed 'medical situation' of one kid.

The teacher too?