DCPS: Masks Optional the rest of the year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News flash: Silent lunch was a thing long before covid. I never agreed with it, but don't be so sure that it is a covid thing.

I'm the PP who posted about silent lunch originally and at our school it is 100% a COVID thing.

[Anonymous]

Anyone care to name the silent lunch school(s)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of my students that still wear masks are the ones that have worn them below their noses since the beginning of the year.

Same, it is an interesting phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:News flash: Silent lunch was a thing long before covid. I never agreed with it, but don't be so sure that it is a covid thing.

Really? Fascinating. What purpose did it serve?

Some younger kids spend much of their time talking, arguing, and not eating lunch. Later in the day, students say they are hungry. Students also learn at a young age that almost any behavior can be excused because all they have to say is that they were hungry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News flash: Silent lunch was a thing long before covid. I never agreed with it, but don't be so sure that it is a covid thing.

Really? Fascinating. What purpose did it serve?

Some younger kids spend much of their time talking, arguing, and not eating lunch. Later in the day, students say they are hungry. Students also learn at a young age that almost any behavior can be excused because all they have to say is that they were hungry.

People of all ages all around the world sit at tables talking, arguing, and eating a little bit, slowly. It is part of being human. I know it doesn't square well with stuffing them with shit food quickly to spend less on staffing and lunch space, but I'm glad the kids push back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News flash: Silent lunch was a thing long before covid. I never agreed with it, but don't be so sure that it is a covid thing.

Really? Fascinating. What purpose did it serve?

Some younger kids spend much of their time talking, arguing, and not eating lunch. Later in the day, students say they are hungry. Students also learn at a young age that almost any behavior can be excused because all they have to say is that they were hungry.

People of all ages all around the world sit at tables talking, arguing, and eating a little bit, slowly. It is part of being human. I know it doesn't square well with stuffing them with shit food quickly to spend less on staffing and lunch space, but I'm glad the kids push back.

+1000

[Anonymous]

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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??

Demasculinization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone care to name the silent lunch school(s)?

Still wondering…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone care to name the silent lunch school(s)?

Still wondering…..

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone care to name the silent lunch school(s)?

Still wondering…..

Why?

Because I don’t believe that poster is telling the truth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone care to name the silent lunch school(s)?

Still wondering…..

Why?

Because I don’t believe that poster is telling the truth.

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I am. (And given that people weighed in suggesting their schools were like this in normal times, seems like a strange thing not to believe.) I am not going to name the school, because — as I noted — I love my school usually and I have no interested in starting some kind of pile on.