If the county isn't allowed to placed a mask mandate in the classroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's my prediction (watching from over the border in maryland). It will be messy and ugly for 3-5 weeks. Protests, parents keeping kids home, misc. messiness and I feel deeply for school admin who is going to be in deep water. But then it will subside. People will realize that the mask mandate wasn't actually doing much (you all realize that everyday from 9-9:15 my kid sits crammed in his hallway outside his classroom waiting for them to open everyone eating breakfast like both sides of the hall are shoulder to shoulder kids eating). Anywho, the sky won't fall and you all will be free. With any luck the fresh air will drift over the potomac to MD. Good luck and god speed.

I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. At some point, we have to realize that the masks - apart from N95’s and the like, which certainly not everyone wears, especially not kids - just aren’t the end-all, be-all. If they help a little “around the edges” with the infection rate, then we also have to consider the trade offs of people - again, especially little kids - not being able to see facial expressions. People who are hard of hearing can’t see your mouth for lip-reading. Kids who are in speech therapy need to see mouths/lips and their speech therapists need to see their mouths. I could go on and on. Maybe the trade offs of masks just aren’t worth it anymore. Maybe this isn’t going to be the OMG DISASTER that everyone is breathlessly predicting. Honestly not too many people will probably opt out at the beginning anyway, so there’s that, too.

You aren't alone. 1000%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:hs teacher here... i can't wait to assign new seating charts & put the anti-maskers together in the back. effing say something to me parents!

There is no chance that will fly. A teacher or two may try, but the administration will not allow for separate areas for masked vs. unmasked students, just as they would not for vaxx'd v. unvaxx'd students. There are so many reasons why (no I am not going down the separate but equal rabbit hole), but one of the easiest to note is student's who have preferential seating as part of an IEP/504. There are way more, but that is the beginning of why that will be a non-starter. It won't have to be parents clamoring one way or the other.

My kid has a 504 that includes preferential seating. She can sit in a non-preferential location with her masked classmates until the maskless ones catch Covid and get quarantined. Then she can move back to her regular seat.

Why are you wishing COVID on people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should fight this bullshit in court. But in the meantime if they have to follow it, parents should be required to submit a form indicating if they are or aren't opting out (not the EO merely requires they don't have to provide a reason or make any statements about their child's health or education. Then seating charts should be moved so all the opt outs are together. And the masked kids are seated separately. Then any case of covid in the classroom results in all the unmasked being put on quarantine because over the course of a school day they very likely were within 6 ft of the covid positive student for a cumulative 15 min. Want to opt out of masking? Enjoy your back to back quarantines until the surge is over.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should fight this bullshit in court. But in the meantime if they have to follow it, parents should be required to submit a form indicating if they are or aren't opting out (not the EO merely requires they don't have to provide a reason or make any statements about their child's health or education. Then seating charts should be moved so all the opt outs are together. And the masked kids are seated separately. Then any case of covid in the classroom results in all the unmasked being put on quarantine because over the course of a school day they very likely were within 6 ft of the covid positive student for a cumulative 15 min. Want to opt out of masking? Enjoy your back to back quarantines until the surge is over.

And I’m sending them to the clinic for every cough and sniffle. Enjoy filling out that return to school form over and over, anti-masker. I’ve never beem vindictive about anything, but I’m about to be.

[Anonymous]

We all know the masks are a joke. I teach K and after 3 weeks off, the kids were way out of habit. I had to remind them so many times but what is the point? Does is really matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand parents who “freak out” at the thought of no masks even EVEN if it were to happen right now. At school pickup I watch kids exit the building. I could easily slip my finger between their mask somewhere along the mask line and their face in at least 70% of all cases. If there is a finger size gap (really even a much small gap) the mask isn’t filtering the air going in or out. It’s a fact my OHSA folks will confirm. It’s theatre. Dont get me started on cloth and paper masks even if those fit snugger which they don’t. The masks aren’t doing much. Better to have a weekly test IMO. Or nothing. I’d be fine with nothing. But if we are going to force a mitigation we should at least pick the lowest cost option that works. Masking has a cost.

BUT WE NEED TO VIRTUE SIGNAL!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all know the masks are a joke. I teach K and after 3 weeks off, the kids were way out of habit. I had to remind them so many times but what is the point? Does is really matter?

No. Most masks are useless from a medical perspective, particularly as worn by kids. Virtue Signaling, not health, is the whole point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. blah, blah, blah...

I've got friends on both sides of this issue. 100% of the anti-masker families I know have already caught covid at least once. Less than 50% of the people I know who voluntarily wear masks have had this supposedly "inevitable" disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should fight this bullshit in court. But in the meantime if they have to follow it, parents should be required to submit a form indicating if they are or aren't opting out (not the EO merely requires they don't have to provide a reason or make any statements about their child's health or education. Then seating charts should be moved so all the opt outs are together. And the masked kids are seated separately. Then any case of covid in the classroom results in all the unmasked being put on quarantine because over the course of a school day they very likely were within 6 ft of the covid positive student for a cumulative 15 min. Want to opt out of masking? Enjoy your back to back quarantines until the surge is over.

And I’m sending them to the clinic for every cough and sniffle. Enjoy filling out that return to school form over and over, anti-masker. I’ve never beem vindictive about anything, but I’m about to be.

I literally just said this to my husband!

[Anonymous]

Looking forward to mask optional. At this point there are no reasons for mandates, anyone can use N95 for a good seal of protection and we know that poorly worn unsealed masks especially cloth ones many kids wear are theater. If we don't let go of this now we will forever be masking every flu/cold season even if Covid goes away or becomes like common cold, which is half of the school year. No thanks. Kids aren't meant to be masked! Everyone who freaks out about it probably already has their kids vaccinated anyway and purchased better fitting masks, why do they need to drag all of us into their hell with them forever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. blah, blah, blah...

I've got friends on both sides of this issue. 100% of the anti-masker families I know have already caught covid at least once. Less than 50% of the people I know who voluntarily wear masks have had this supposedly "inevitable" disease.

Makes sense. We already had Covid and done with it. Those who haven't had it have easy access to free vaccines for any age group now. Time for mandates to go away, anyone can wear one if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. blah, blah, blah...

I've got friends on both sides of this issue. 100% of the anti-masker families I know have already caught covid at least once. Less than 50% of the people I know who voluntarily wear masks have had this supposedly "inevitable" disease.

Not everyone is testing, or can get a test. And some people are asymptomatic or lightly symptomatic and might never think to test. The number of positive cases isn’t anywhere near the true amount of disease in the community at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking forward to mask optional. At this point there are no reasons for mandates, anyone can use N95 for a good seal of protection and we know that poorly worn unsealed masks especially cloth ones many kids wear are theater. If we don't let go of this now we will forever be masking every flu/cold season even if Covid goes away or becomes like common cold, which is half of the school year. No thanks. Kids aren't meant to be masked! Everyone who freaks out about it probably already has their kids vaccinated anyway and purchased better fitting masks, why do they need to drag all of us into their hell with them forever?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's my prediction (watching from over the border in maryland). It will be messy and ugly for 3-5 weeks. Protests, parents keeping kids home, misc. messiness and I feel deeply for school admin who is going to be in deep water. But then it will subside. People will realize that the mask mandate wasn't actually doing much (you all realize that everyday from 9-9:15 my kid sits crammed in his hallway outside his classroom waiting for them to open everyone eating breakfast like both sides of the hall are shoulder to shoulder kids eating). Anywho, the sky won't fall and you all will be free. With any luck the fresh air will drift over the potomac to MD. Good luck and god speed.

I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. At some point, we have to realize that the masks - apart from N95’s and the like, which certainly not everyone wears, especially not kids - just aren’t the end-all, be-all. If they help a little “around the edges” with the infection rate, then we also have to consider the trade offs of people - again, especially little kids - not being able to see facial expressions. People who are hard of hearing can’t see your mouth for lip-reading. Kids who are in speech therapy need to see mouths/lips and their speech therapists need to see their mouths. I could go on and on. Maybe the trade offs of masks just aren’t worth it anymore. Maybe this isn’t going to be the OMG DISASTER that everyone is breathlessly predicting. Honestly not too many people will probably opt out at the beginning anyway, so there’s that, too.

You aren't alone. 1000%

+100
And anyone who wants to wear a mask can still wear one. My daughter has already gotten Covid, despite being fully vaxxed and masked at school. Enough already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this is it. People, EVERYONE in NoVa wears masks everywhere and EVERYONE AND THEN SOME has freaking Covid. And it has very little to do with schools either. People are catching it masked and unmasked alike. blah, blah, blah...

I've got friends on both sides of this issue. 100% of the anti-masker families I know have already caught covid at least once. Less than 50% of the people I know who voluntarily wear masks have had this supposedly "inevitable" disease.

Not everyone is testing, or can get a test. And some people are asymptomatic or lightly symptomatic and might never think to test. The number of positive cases isn’t anywhere near the true amount of disease in the community at this point.

Fauci himself said everyone will get covid. The masking is hygiene theater that creates social/emotional developmental delays in kids. It’s time to move on.