What are your kids saying about how many students/teachers masked today (3/1)?

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Anonymous wrote:Kids have been in masks for 2 years and now al of us a sudden Covid is gone. Let them do what they want at their own pace. These kids have had a rough two years so can down- they will eventually stop wearing them but just let them figure this out

Pssttt… COVID? Not gone. Not even close. There have been periods of the pandemic, like last summer, where numbers were much, much lower. We will almost certainly get another varient at some point, and see another spike. But saying COVID is gone because of General Assembly political decisions is ridiculous.

I was being sarcastic

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Anonymous wrote:My high schooler says that the worst of the judgmental remarks come from other students, not the teachers. Parents: please tell your kids to wear their mask if they desire and to respect others' decisions not to.

My HS kid know better than to say anything. But, she also doesn’t want to be around unmasked kids. And, it’s her right to decide where to eat lunch and to ask for changes in seat assignements and to hang out with other masked kids. If your kid feels judged, it’s probably because they are being judged.

Does she eat lunch by herself?

Exactly. She’s had lunch all year unmasked with friends.

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My kid said about 50-50. But there were some students running around ripping masks of other kids' faces.

If you're the parent of those kids, teach them to be better and not be such a-holes.

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Anonymous wrote:My high schooler says that the worst of the judgmental remarks come from other students, not the teachers. Parents: please tell your kids to wear their mask if they desire and to respect others' decisions not to.

My HS kid know better than to say anything. But, she also doesn’t want to be around unmasked kids. And, it’s her right to decide where to eat lunch and to ask for changes in seat assignements and to hang out with other masked kids. If your kid feels judged, it’s probably because they are being judged.

Does she eat lunch by herself?

DP: my kid has been eating in the orchestra room with a few friends and plenty of room to spread out on A Days and outside on B Days this year. Yes— even through most of the winter.

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Anonymous wrote:My high schooler says that the worst of the judgmental remarks come from other students, not the teachers. Parents: please tell your kids to wear their mask if they desire and to respect others' decisions not to.

My HS kid know better than to say anything. But, she also doesn’t want to be around unmasked kids. And, it’s her right to decide where to eat lunch and to ask for changes in seat assignements and to hang out with other masked kids. If your kid feels judged, it’s probably because they are being judged.

+1. My kid doesn't say anything rude or mean but she also doesn't want to be around unmasked people and I won't force her too. People want to take their masks off, go for it. But if people have a reaction to that it is their right.

+2. Decisions have consequences. It’s a good life lesson for your kod. I would hope no one is unnecessarily rude to the COVID vector kids. But I can certainly understand why the HS kids with a lot to lose if they have to isolate for 2 weeks would steer clear of unmasked kids. Especially since kids who make high risk decisions in terms of masking are probably engaging in higher risk COVID behaviors outside of school.

Your saying COVID is over doesn’t make COVID over. Especially when FCPS has such draconian exclusion policies. COVID is only “no worse than a cold” when my kid only has to miss a day or two of school while symptomatic. She’s already missed two spring plays. She doesn’t want to miss this years as well. Or spring break. Or prom. Or APs. Etc., Etc. She plans to wear her mask and avoid the IDGAF kids and the kids making political statements.

You do realize contact tracing is over? There is no reason she needs to be out 10 days. Just send her back when she’s better. You don’t even need to test anymore or notify the school.

First off, there is an assumption here that everyone who get’s Covid is sick for two-three days and that is it. Some people- even kids are sick for a full week or longer. PP says her daughter doesn’t want to take a chance and miss out on important things. I feel a lot of seniors are probably feeling the same way.

There is also the assumption that you can just ignore FCPS isolation rules. I agree they are nuts. But, I’m not telling my Hs kid not to test, to hide the results of a test, etc. in order to avoid COVID isolation. Because I’m not raising my kid to be a liar and a sneak. I disagree with the rules. But the solution is not teaching my kid to lie to get away with breaking rules they don’t like.

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About 15 of my third graders were unmasked.

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West Springfield High - daughter said most still masked yesterday.

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Kilmer middle school 7th grader. 1/4 teachers were unmasked, about 2-3 kids (out of 25ish) per class unmasked.

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2 of 20 unmasked in 2nd grade. Marshall pyramid.

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No one is Saying Covid is over or people aren’t still dying. What we are saying is that given the lower transmission and high vaccine rate here, maybe kids and Adults can have the choice to unmask and maybe kids don’t need to be masked forever since adult attitudes aren’t going to change.

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SOTU last night was the dems/ liberals signal that it’s okay to be free of the masks.

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Biden and his CDC say kids don't need to wear masks in schools and yet in FCPS all our kids are still wearing masks and are scared not to. What is going with Fairfax County? I used to think we were Center Left, Rational, Data-Driven. Our political culture is becoming San Francisco East without the charm and beauty.

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See also Arlington County. This area is nuts- full of high anxiety know it alls.

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Anonymous wrote:Biden and his CDC say kids don't need to wear masks in schools and yet in FCPS all our kids are still wearing masks and are scared not to. What is going with Fairfax County? I used to think we were Center Left, Rational, Data-Driven. Our political culture is becoming San Francisco East without the charm and beauty.

Daughter at GFES said ~2/3 of her class was unmasked yesterday.

Following this thread makes me happy that we live in one of the more sane parts of the county. At the end of the day, who cares how many students are masked or unmasked? The great thing about the new rules is that everyone gets to make their own choice. (And, if one follows the actual -- and not just the political -- science, one should know that unmasked students are not putting their masked classmates at any materially higher risk of Covid infection.)

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Anonymous wrote:Biden and his CDC say kids don't need to wear masks in schools and yet in FCPS all our kids are still wearing masks and are scared not to. What is going with Fairfax County? I used to think we were Center Left, Rational, Data-Driven. Our political culture is becoming San Francisco East without the charm and beauty.

I posted upthread. The CDC has moved from "avoid COVID" to "live with COVID" phase. Some people aren't ready to live with it - for instance if they have big spring break plans. It's not fear of covid so much as hassle of messing up plans. We will move to "live with it" after Spring Break.