DCPS: Masks Optional the rest of the year

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really wish people would shut up about this. If you want your child to wear one they can, if you don't, the policy now says they don't have to. Is this discussion going to go on forever recycling the same tired stuff over and over? Or can we just stop?

The pro-plague crowd just can’t help themselves.

You know you're talking about nearly the whole rest of the world? The U.S. was an outlier on masking, particularly of young children. DC was an outlier in the United States in terms of how long it's taking to end this. The CDC and the DOH - hardly conservative organizations on this topic - have looked at the evidence. If none of this makes any impact on you, you're in epistemic closure-land along with the qanon people and guys who think they're Jesus.

This. The mask-humpers don’t realize just how far outside the worldwide scientific and educational mainstream they are. They’re like villagers from the Middle Ages who worship a king.

Pretty sure Asia has been masking kids for quite some time and they seem to have quite a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

Oh goodness, that’s so sad they didn’t let kids talk during lunch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really wish people would shut up about this. If you want your child to wear one they can, if you don't, the policy now says they don't have to. Is this discussion going to go on forever recycling the same tired stuff over and over? Or can we just stop?

The pro-plague crowd just can’t help themselves.

You know you're talking about nearly the whole rest of the world? The U.S. was an outlier on masking, particularly of young children. DC was an outlier in the United States in terms of how long it's taking to end this. The CDC and the DOH - hardly conservative organizations on this topic - have looked at the evidence. If none of this makes any impact on you, you're in epistemic closure-land along with the qanon people and guys who think they're Jesus.

Well said.

Hella racist and untrue. Kids were masked all over Europe, Asia, mid-East. Some countries did not mask under 5, but many countries did mask young kids - Japan masked 2 year olds. Hong Kong is in lockdown as we speak.

DP. Racist? LOL. You must think that slur can be applied to just about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

Why just hope? Why are people allowing this to be done to their children??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

All in the name of calming the anxiety of adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

Is this DCPS or a charter??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

Is this DCPS or a charter??

DP, but it's the same at my charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

Is this DCPS or a charter??

DP, but it's the same at my charter.

I wish people would name the school, otherwise I have trouble believe them.

[Anonymous]

Stories like these make me so grateful we switched to DCPS this year. That kind of treatment just isn’t worth a feeder pattern in 5+ more years.

[Anonymous]

I thought the DCPS schools also still had the tape on the floors and the strict seating arrangements, no?

[Anonymous]

Why is this still an issue?

Wear the mask if you want.

Don’t wear it if you don’t want to.

Anxiety-ridden parents on both sides need to get over themselves and their self-important egos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PK4 JKLM class this morning - 1/3 masked 2/3 unmasked. Son chose to wear one, I think because he has some social anxiety. He is most ecstatic that they get to talk during lunch now (previously they prohibited talking - even outside (!!!!) - during lunch because talking makes the virus more likely to spread...).

The idea of telling preschoolers not to talk when unmasked for lunch or whatever else makes me sick to my stomach. Glad this is changing.

Agree, it's cruel.

Our 1st grader has a ten minute timer in which they must eat their lunch silently and not talk. And then they're done. No more lunch; masks back on. It's insane frankly. I hope that will now be ending.

Why just hope? Why are people allowing this to be done to their children??

It's a DCPS. Not T1. How would I stop this from being done to my child short of pulling them out of a school that they and I otherwise love?