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

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Anonymous wrote:My family and I have not had Covid to date and we don't want to catch it, so we are OK with masking.

I understand that many people have had Covid - some more than once and they don't care if they are exposed to the virus again. I get why they don't want to wear masks, but I don't understand why they care if other people prefer to mask.

Most of us really don’t! I assume if you are wearing a mask you have a different risk calculus than I do. It’s ok! But my risk calculus is just as valid. I’m not you, you’re not me, and we are no longer having a public health crisis that requires more than staying home when sick, vaccinating and practicing good hygiene—if the emergency arises again with a scary variant, I’ll put it back on!

I don't care if people are not wearing a mask as long as they are not coughing and sneezing in a public area. I have seen people do this, most recently in the grocery store near food and other people - like WTF?

Ehhh, it’s March in DC. Everyone is sneezing. 🌸 but yeah, cover your mouth people.

Yup. Year round allergies here and I am not testing every day when I am sneezy or my nose gets clogged. After I have traveled or been near someone I know who is sick? Yup, I tested on day 4 and before going to work or having people over on day 7. I figured that was being polite. But if I take my flonase and my symptoms go away, I am assuming it is allergies and not COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader said everyone in his class and his teacher were masked yesterday. We gave him the option but he's not very confident so I think he will unmask when many other kids are unmasked.

Masks will be prevalent in schools until the alpha males decide it isn't cool to wear a mask.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

What's your point? You HAVE that choice right now.

Nothing. Just pointing that people are yelling “Covid isn’t over!” And no one has said that. We’ve just been told that because of many factors, we can unmask if we choose to but it doesn’t mean that everyone unmasked is saying Covid is over or that people don’t have a good reason to keep wearing one.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader said everyone in his class and his teacher were masked yesterday. We gave him the option but he's not very confident so I think he will unmask when many other kids are unmasked.

Masks will be prevalent in schools until the alpha males decide it isn't cool to wear a mask.

It has to come from the top down. Kids will be more comfortable if teachers are unmasked. Teachers will be more comfortable if admin does or doesn’t act so strict about Covid stuff. Would everyone feel better if Brabrand did it?

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Frist grader reported that 4 kids were without masks. Teacher wore her mask.

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I was surprised by the one’s wearing their masks on their chins, they do know they don’t have to do that anymore.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t believe a word of that. If anything, the kids who make snarky remarks to those choosing not to wear masks are FAR more in your face and aggressive. 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.

+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.

So I was actually with you for the idea that kids should have free will over who they are near. I respect that everyone assesses risk differently and even though my kids have unmasked, I get that others may want some distance.

But then you throw out inflammatory language like “COVID vectors” and “IDGAF kids.” Clearly you are hoping to be proven right that unmasked kids will suffer higher incidences of COVID infection and you assume they just don’t care about others without even giving any thought as to why they may reasonably view masking as a mitigation not scientifically well supported at this point (you know in line with the White House and CDC).

What are parents like you going to do when case counts continue to drop and unmasked kids aren’t getting sick left and right? Because I truly believe that is what will happen. And I know you’ll be so disappointed not be proven “right” that unmasking is some huge mistake. People like you obviously want unmasking to fail so you can gloat in your moral superiority. The same way we were told the sky would fall if schools reopened. Of course there will be no self reflection when everything ends up fine. I’m sure you’ll just move on to something else to be smug about.

+100
So sick of these sanctimonious control freaks.

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Anonymous wrote:About 15 of my third graders were unmasked.

Update:
Today, 20 are unmasked (out of 26).

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Anonymous wrote:About 15 of my third graders were unmasked.

Update:
Today, 20 are unmasked (out of 26).

Are you masked? Curious if the kids masking at all correlates to whether teacher masks.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be nice when kids don’t feel the peer pressure to keep the masks on.

It will be nice when Covid infections are low enough that people can safely unmask. Waiting for that day, but you do you.

Wait, so the CDC has said that day has arrived here. Did you miss the memo? Or are you doing your own “science”.

My own assessment of risk for a HS senior. FCPS may not contact,trace, but I’m not telling her to li and ignore FCPS isolation rules. Has just crappy parenting. So, yes, she has a lot to lose. An has los a lot already. Why do you scare so much? And why would tell a kid to lie about their COVID status. Telling a kid to lie to the school is a terrible life lesson.

Now, should FCPS decide to follow the CDC, my risk calculus will change.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t believe a word of that. If anything, the kids who make snarky remarks to those choosing not to wear masks are FAR more in your face and aggressive. If you’re the parent of those kids, teach them to be better and not be such a-holes.

Those kids come from MAGA families. It’s all they know.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader said everyone in his class and his teacher were masked yesterday. We gave him the option but he's not very confident so I think he will unmask when many other kids are unmasked.

Masks will be prevalent in schools until the alpha males decide it isn't cool to wear a mask.

It has to come from the top down. Kids will be more comfortable if teachers are unmasked. Teachers will be more comfortable if admin does or doesn’t act so strict about Covid stuff. Would everyone feel better if Brabrand did it?

I'm the parent of the first grader. Agree with both of you. Anecdotally, many of the other kids at our bus stop have siblings <5 and as of right now, parents are planning for them to mask until there's a vaccine for the under-5s (not going to get into the value of a vaccine for kids that young). Wouldn't be surprised if that accounts for a fair number of the Kinder and first graders.

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Mine said there was this girl who sits behinf her in English class who she thought was really pretty, but seeing her without a mask for the first time today....shes's not.

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My experience yesterday was 15/21 took them off when they saw I wasn’t wearing one. Those same 6 came in today with masks saying their parents wanted them to keep it on.

We had 10 Maskless adults in my whole elementary school and today we added two to that number.