If your chid was wearing masks indoors at school at the end of last year...

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Hells no.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:... Will you put them in one when school starts this year? And please, I really don't want this to turn into a mask-bashing or no-mask-bashing session. Just curious what like-minded parents are thinking for next year. We have been in kn95s indoors for the past two years.

Like-minded in what way?

We will follow our school’s rules but given the choice, no masks.

[Anonymous]

To OPs questioning, and thus ignoring the PP mask basher's comments as a family with an immunocompromised member - we will start the year with masks, and hope to give them a break when numbers drop and we see how the year starts off. Both don't want to mask forever (and willing to ride the periods of high/low transmission for now), and appreciate that my kids don't find it that big of a deal (elementary/middle school) in the grand scheme of life....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To OPs questioning, and thus ignoring the PP mask basher's comments as a family with an immunocompromised member - we will start the year with masks, and hope to give them a break when numbers drop and we see how the year starts off. Both don't want to mask forever (and willing to ride the periods of high/low transmission for now), and appreciate that my kids don't find it that big of a deal (elementary/middle school) in the grand scheme of life....

This is how we’re handling it, as well. Cases up… mask up. Otherwise, maskless. We have immunocompromised people in our home and this is the best solution for us. Fortunately, our kids don’t care either way and just go with the flow.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

yes, though if the school does weekly community testing and keeps sick at home we would be happy to unmask

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... Will you put them in one when school starts this year? And please, I really don't want this to turn into a mask-bashing or no-mask-bashing session. Just curious what like-minded parents are thinking for next year. We have been in kn95s indoors for the past two years.

Like-minded in what way?

We will follow our school’s rules but given the choice, no masks.

I assume they mean people who chose to mask at the end of last year, when it was optional at almost all the independent schools in the area.

I don't see anything that makes me think that the choice we make in the fall would be different from the one we made in the spring.

[Anonymous]

Yes. KN95.

[Anonymous]

Yes, a KN95.

The school will also continue testing.

[Anonymous]

It's sad they wear masks, because they feel embarrassed that they don't look perfect. Masks are so bad psychologically, the high risk bs is fake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's sad they wear masks, because they feel embarrassed that they don't look perfect. Masks are so bad psychologically, the high risk bs is fake

I’m a teacher. I’ve noticed most students really don’t care about masks. They wear them or they don’t. They haven’t made them into huge symbols and most don’t look remotely psychologically affected by them. Parents, on the other hand, make them into something larger than they are. I’ve never had to talk to students about mask wearing. Only parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes - our schools say they will follow local guidance based on COVID levels - which currently means indoor masking.

There is no guidance suggesting indoor masking. They recommend it, but there is no mandate to mask indoors. MCPS will be mask optional FWIW.