2nd Grade Teacher wears a mask

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Anonymous wrote:As an elementary teacher with a child in Hospice care, I wear a mask. This post is infuriating to me. Who is anyone to tell someone else what is appropriate for their own personal health or prioritizing the health of their family over your being uncomfortable by it? Do you know how many students show up to school on a daily basis sick. Parents can care less about their kid getting everyone else sick and you are over here mad at the teacher for wearing a mask while teaching. It's time for you to reflect on your privilege.

A lot, because of attendance policies that penalize parents who keep their sick kids out of school. And if the kid wears a mask, someone will ask him why he didn't stay home due to being sick. Parents can't win either.

A little communication from the teacher would go a long way here. Parents automatically jump to germophobe virtue signaller in the absence of any information.

Private medical information is just that - private. How dare you feel entitled to know someone elses reasons for masking. Mind your own damn business, it doesnt actually make a difference either way. You just like to be able to sh!t on people if their reasons aren't "good enough" for you.

Switch schools. Something is off with your current school. Maybe start a pod of 6-8 students and pull out of that grade for the year. Your kids will be behind the other classrooms, grade and school district.

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Anonymous wrote:we all wore masks during the pandemic. fat lot that did us. maybe masks don't do as much as we assume they do.

I have worn a kn95 every time I go inside other than my house since 2020. haven't gotten covid yet and I also haven't gotten sick in any other way

I haven’t gotten sick and I never wore a mask. What’s your point

Must be nice. Not everyone is as fortunate as you.

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Anonymous wrote:we all wore masks during the pandemic. fat lot that did us. maybe masks don't do as much as we assume they do.

I have worn a kn95 every time I go inside other than my house since 2020. haven't gotten covid yet and I also haven't gotten sick in any other way

If you don't have severe immune issues, you are making a big mistake. You will have no immunity to the types of viruses and bugs that you should be exposing yourself to day in and day. Bad idea.

Not that poster but my doctors tell me to mask given how easily I catch colds and how long they last. Tell me why you know more about someone's health than they do?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d switch home rooms. A 5th grader just did in our school this week.

I’d be livid if this was a permanent thing.

I actually think this is a troll post with troll sock puppeting.

Mask lady needs to find a new line of work

If these teachers quit, are you willing to step up and teach, or will you complain your child has multiple long-term subs till a replacement is found? Or, when your teacher is out a week every few weeks due to illness as selfish parents don't keep their kids home, are you going to complain about it too?

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My son has a teacher who wears a mask daily in high school. I thought it was odd as well, but he hasn’t complained about being able to hear her so it hasn’t been an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

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https://www.health.com/covid-hearing-loss-young-adults-8708061

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I’m a teacher.
I’ve just been diagnosed w leukemia and some other autoimmune thing is going on as well.
I just want to finish out the year do I can retire. I’ll be wearing a mask so I can do that.
Take. A. Seat.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher.
I’ve just been diagnosed w leukemia and some other autoimmune thing is going on as well.
I just want to finish out the year do I can retire. I’ll be wearing a mask so I can do that.
Take. A. Seat.

Nobody is talking about you. We’re talking about the health anxiety types. Best of luck with your treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

Np. You make a good point about taking this serious. OP stated that she, herself, had an issue with understanding in masks. Has there been any clarification about the child? Does the child who sits in this classroom also struggle in this way?

Most children are going to be fine… But if there is a child struggling, I would imagine the school may be willing to work with the child on those challenges. Perhaps the child could be moved to a different room if the masking is going to be long term like it is for the teacher with leukemia who posted above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d switch home rooms. A 5th grader just did in our school this week.

I’d be livid if this was a permanent thing.

I actually think this is a troll post with troll sock puppeting.

Mask lady needs to find a new line of work

If these teachers quit, are you willing to step up and teach, or will you complain your child has multiple long-term subs till a replacement is found? Or, when your teacher is out a week every few weeks due to illness as selfish parents don't keep their kids home, are you going to complain about it too?

Yes I wouldn’t have my kid at a substandard school with fickle teachers.

There are other models which educate to high standards other than sitting in public school with a sick or masked up teacher or subs.

I live in an area with very intense athletics and dance and polo. Many families “homeschool” via paying a governess teacher. Pods work better too. Catholic schools don’t have this issue either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has a teacher who wears a mask daily in high school. I thought it was odd as well, but he hasn’t complained about being able to hear her so it hasn’t been an issue.

Good thing he already knows how to read and spell. Unlike a second grader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

And stop telling to stop wearing masks cause you have hearing issues. It’s rude too. You never know what health issues the person wearing the mask has. It goes both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

I would want to know why and would ask the principal. I would also send the tutoring bills to the school district.

Many 7 yos are just going to tune out the talking mask face. The masked teacher is going to sound all mumbly. The facial expressions and social understanding won’t be happening.

It will be a lost year.

The school is hoping no one speaks up. They know that’s a bad thing for that age of education and development.