Preschool Mask Policies?

[Anonymous]

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Also, masks are particularly dumb for 2-year-olds if school is more than a couple of hours. Probably also 3-year-olds. They spend hours sleeping without masks on right next to each other, and they are all eating meals together without masks on. So what is really the purpose of masking for a couple of hours indoors?

[Anonymous]

5! I would love 5

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[Anonymous]

1 - that is what ours does (MoCo). A handful of kids wear masks and the majority do not.

[Anonymous]

1 but they are still “strongly encouraging” masks for 2 and up and all of the teachers still wear them.

[Anonymous]

1. Teachers still required to mask but not the children. They improved ventilation and do a lot outdoors.

They have been pretty conservative about COVID after an outbreak in 2020 led to the death of two teachers. I am surprised there are some preschools that are still masking outdoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 but they are still “strongly encouraging” masks for 2 and up and all of the teachers still wear them.

That's ours too. For a while most kids were still wearing them so my DC wanted to as well but that seems to slowly be changing.

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3

[Anonymous]

3 but I wish it was 1. We are leaving for a place that follows 1. Who freaking tests weekly, that is nuts.

[Anonymous]

We're still at 4, but they don't close down classes for exposures anymore, let kids who have household exposures attend.

I'm not the biggest fan, but whatever.

[Anonymous]

God this makes me 100000000% even more glad we moved out of the area when we did.

[Anonymous]

DD's preschool in NOVA moved from masks-required to mask-optional after spring break and will continue being mask-optional (#1) this fall. Of the 12 kids in her class (ages 2-5), 4 started going without masks regularly.

At the beginning of last year, they were requiring testing only after breaks. Now it's only required if you've had an exposure.

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My little guy turned three at the start of the school year. I kid you not, he got seven colds between September and March, when they removed the indoor masking requirement. With meals, snacks, naps, and no efforts to physically separate the kids, I can't believe masks provided much, if any, protection. Half the class got COVID in five weeks - with masks on.

So I'd vote for 2 - masks optional, but weekly testing to contain outbreaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My little guy turned three at the start of the school year. I kid you not, he got seven colds between September and March, when they removed the indoor masking requirement. With meals, snacks, naps, and no efforts to physically separate the kids, I can't believe masks provided much, if any, protection. Half the class got COVID in five weeks - with masks on.

So I'd vote for 2 - masks optional, but weekly testing to contain outbreaks.

Exactly the same BUT who knows how many more colds, flu and Covid they would have gotten without the masks. And DS’s class hasn’t had a Covid outbreak. And it’s a regular preschool not daycare so no naps. But they eat lunch without masks obviously.

I honestly don’t know.