Will your DC wear mask to school when Youngkin lifts school mask mandate next week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

Democrats in northern virginia got him elected. Mask obsessed and covid 4eva people seem to forget that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers: If unmasked kids show up in your class next week and you are not comfortable with them being there, send them to the principal's office. First, the EO does not go into effect next week, but the week after. Second, the EO is not valid and there will be lawsuits filed to enjoin it from going into effect soon enough. A federal court in Tennessee found that a similar EO was unconstitutional (this applies to all Virginia school districts). Additionally, here in Virginia, state law provides that what school boards set as the policy trumps the EO (this applies to Virginia school districts where the school board will support continuance of a mask mandate).

Good information. I hope teachers read this and do exactly as you suggest.

Question: What should kids do (masked kids who don't want to be around unmasked kids), do you think? I don't want riots in classrooms but my kids are NOT comfortable being in classrooms with unmasked and unvaccinated kids.

All of this drama is making me want to resign as a teacher. Now. I won’t but I don’t know if I will continue next year. I can’t handle the extreme views and being caught in the middle anymore. I didn’t become a teacher to be the mask police of teenagers on top of addressing all of this learning loss. And let’s throw in addressing mental health and endless PD on equity. I’m done.

-teacher who doesn’t want to wear a mask any longer

Would you be willing to teach all the kids who won't wear masks? If, at your school, you and the students in your classroom don't wear masks, and then all the other classrooms remain masked? I would suggest that to your principal. Tell him or her that you will teach unmasked and that the students who won't wear masks can come to your room. That may help.

I would but you do not understand the way the master schedule works in a high school. It can’t be reconfigured at this point in the year based on mask preference.

I am an administrator of a large secondary school. Trust me, I -do- understand how the master schedule works. You will be getting all the unmasked kids for your subject matter during that class period. I am pretty sure I can get 4-8 other teachers for the most prevalent subjects and courses to do the same. You may have mixed grade levels but if your priority is no mask for you then you'll get it. It solves a lot of my problems because 100% people I've fielded calls, texts and emails from over the past 24 hours are up in arms that they want masks to stay in place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My poor teacher daughter texted me today and asked me if a teacher had dumped Youngin in the past, and this was his way of getting back at teachers. It’s not the mask vs no mask. It’s the demonization of teachers. Youngkin is just shifting the responsibility. And it sucks. Schools will close because of staff shortages. And Youngkin will blame “lazy teachers”.

He knows he was elected solely because people are unhappy about "education."

To the PP who suggested sending students to the principal's office if they refuse to wear masks, do you really think that will work? My DCs are in HS. If most high schoolers decide not to wear masks, what is the recourse?

At my kids' school, most of the high schoolers want masks to remain in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

Democrats in northern virginia got him elected. Mask obsessed and covid 4eva people seem to forget that.

Youngkin lost northern Virginia, so this is a pretty weak argument.

[Anonymous]

My DD goes to ACHS (TC) she says only about a third of the kids actually qar masks. You can guess the ones that comply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

Democrats in northern virginia got him elected. Mask obsessed and covid 4eva people seem to forget that.

Youngkin lost northern Virginia, so this is a pretty weak argument.

There are many Biden/Youngkin voters in Northen Virginia. If there were fewer of these, Youngkin would not have won.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another teacher for whom this will be a deal-breaker. I will quit as soon as masks are no longer required in my school. We don't need the money and my health is more important to me than dealing with a bunch of whack jobs with anxiety who refuse to wear masks.

Yay I love learning that our amazing graduate-level teachers are so completely unable to read data. And I love knowing you view my kids as vectors of disease.

well if they're unmasked, they are vectors of disease!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD goes to ACHS (TC) she says only about a third of the kids actually wear masks. You can guess the ones that comply.

Same. I guess that is why I find the fact that this is so divisive kind of silly. Kids are not properly wearing masks. The masks are cloth. They hang out with each other without masks during their 70 minute lunch. They play in band together. I hear the middle school is even worse with mask compliance. My elementary kids eat lunch in their classroom with their eating, maskless teacher. The whole argument is based on a false premise of mask compliance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

Democrats in northern virginia got him elected. Mask obsessed and covid 4eva people seem to forget that.

Youngkin lost northern Virginia, so this is a pretty weak argument.

This. It was basically rural idiots voting against CRT even though it’s not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

I bet you are happy but normal hard working Virginians are not. They do not want you and Troungkin dictating how we live out lives. Go back to your rallies and Jan 6th sh#t. The recall is gathering strength. No way this guy makes it a full term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin can be recalled with 10% of the vote.

You know he’s made a lot of us really happy, though. We are educated and your friends and neighbors. Silently listening to your rants.

You’re not as educated as you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD goes to ACHS (TC) she says only about a third of the kids actually wear masks. You can guess the ones that comply.

Same. I guess that is why I find the fact that this is so divisive kind of silly. Kids are not properly wearing masks. The masks are cloth. They hang out with each other without masks during their 70 minute lunch. They play in band together. I hear the middle school is even worse with mask compliance. My elementary kids eat lunch in their classroom with their eating, maskless teacher. The whole argument is based on a false premise of mask compliance.

Well, you bring up a separate issue: ACPS’s awful overall approach to Covid mitigation generally including indoor lunch and the other issues you raise. Those issues are all problems too and we are lucky that the transmission in ACPS hasn’t been worse than it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD goes to ACHS (TC) she says only about a third of the kids actually wear masks. You can guess the ones that comply.

Same. I guess that is why I find the fact that this is so divisive kind of silly. Kids are not properly wearing masks. The masks are cloth. They hang out with each other without masks during their 70 minute lunch. They play in band together. I hear the middle school is even worse with mask compliance. My elementary kids eat lunch in their classroom with their eating, maskless teacher. The whole argument is based on a false premise of mask compliance.

Well, you bring up a separate issue: ACPS’s awful overall approach to Covid mitigation generally including indoor lunch and the other issues you raise. Those issues are all problems too and we are lucky that the transmission in ACPS hasn’t been worse than it is.

That's certainly one interpretation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers: If unmasked kids show up in your class next week and you are not comfortable with them being there, send them to the principal's office. First, the EO does not go into effect next week, but the week after. Second, the EO is not valid and there will be lawsuits filed to enjoin it from going into effect soon enough. A federal court in Tennessee found that a similar EO was unconstitutional (this applies to all Virginia school districts). Additionally, here in Virginia, state law provides that what school boards set as the policy trumps the EO (this applies to Virginia school districts where the school board will support continuance of a mask mandate).

Good information. I hope teachers read this and do exactly as you suggest.

Question: What should kids do (masked kids who don't want to be around unmasked kids), do you think? I don't want riots in classrooms but my kids are NOT comfortable being in classrooms with unmasked and unvaccinated kids.

All of this drama is making me want to resign as a teacher. Now. I won’t but I don’t know if I will continue next year. I can’t handle the extreme views and being caught in the middle anymore. I didn’t become a teacher to be the mask police of teenagers on top of addressing all of this learning loss. And let’s throw in addressing mental health and endless PD on equity. I’m done.

-teacher who doesn’t want to wear a mask any longer

Would you be willing to teach all the kids who won't wear masks? If, at your school, you and the students in your classroom don't wear masks, and then all the other classrooms remain masked? I would suggest that to your principal. Tell him or her that you will teach unmasked and that the students who won't wear masks can come to your room. That may help.

I would but you do not understand the way the master schedule works in a high school. It can’t be reconfigured at this point in the year based on mask preference.

I am an administrator of a large secondary school. Trust me, I -do- understand how the master schedule works. You will be getting all the unmasked kids for your subject matter during that class period. I am pretty sure I can get 4-8 other teachers for the most prevalent subjects and courses to do the same. You may have mixed grade levels but if your priority is no mask for you then you'll get it. It solves a lot of my problems because 100% people I've fielded calls, texts and emails from over the past 24 hours are up in arms that they want masks to stay in place.

Please name your school. I will apply there next year. I am not joking and like how you are willing to think outside of the box. I would be willing to do this to be able to teach without a mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD goes to ACHS (TC) she says only about a third of the kids actually wear masks. You can guess the ones that comply.

Same. I guess that is why I find the fact that this is so divisive kind of silly. Kids are not properly wearing masks. The masks are cloth. They hang out with each other without masks during their 70 minute lunch. They play in band together. I hear the middle school is even worse with mask compliance. My elementary kids eat lunch in their classroom with their eating, maskless teacher. The whole argument is based on a false premise of mask compliance.

Well, you bring up a separate issue: ACPS’s awful overall approach to Covid mitigation generally including indoor lunch and the other issues you raise. Those issues are all problems too and we are lucky that the transmission in ACPS hasn’t been worse than it is.

And that is why their statement about still requiring masks to defy the EO, and, possibly, open the district to legal costs and actions is just so political. It is not like they are coming from a position of strict COVID mitigation looking out for the children - they are doing it to pick a fight with Richmond - which is not their job!