2nd Grade Teacher wears a mask

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are absurd.

At a meeting at my job on Friday of about 25 people at least 1/4 of the people attending were wearing masks. This is normal.

I don’t care if people wear masks or don’t, but this is not in any way normal in 2024 in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder about these people wearing masks everywhere. I have always read a little dirt is good for you. We kept my kid home from daycare for 3 months in 2020. She got all the illnesses (ironically not covid) but then it leveled off and it’s down to a couple minor colds a year. Isn’t it good for your immune system to be exposed to some things?

If someone is on heavy duty chemo or taking transplant rejection drugs I get the mask thing. But garden variety autoimmune things like crohns I wonder.

What I don't get are people who wear their mask below their nose. Do they have covid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to go to work during the pandemic, even when the entire medical profession said it was safe, because they didn't "feel" it was safe?

Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to get vaccinated for covid, even after it was required?

You'll have to forgive us parents if we're not ready to give teachers the benefit of the doubt after the string of horrendous decisions they made during the pandemic.

I say this with all due respect: If you don't trust the people your kids spend 7 hours a day with, you need to get your kid out of there.
In 2020 my kid's K teacher was tweeting nonstop under her own name about how angry she was having to do 2 hours a day in person with the little (masked) germ factories, the unfairness of it all that her friends got to WFH, the Trumpy parents who were responsible for this workplace hazard, that she was putting her life on the line, and so on. I got my kid out! I don't want him being taught by someone who resents his presence. (And I was working in person 100% at a hospital the whole time.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all are absurd.

At a meeting at my job on Friday of about 25 people at least 1/4 of the people attending were wearing masks. This is normal.

I don’t care if people wear masks or don’t, but this is not in any way normal in 2024 in the US.

DP here and sure it is! I see masks everywhere! At the grocery store/Costco (on a mixture of shoppers and employees), doctor's offices, airports and planes, etc. Anyone claiming its not normal to see mask wearing is not getting out much.

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I only see white woken wearing masks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are absurd.

At a meeting at my job on Friday of about 25 people at least 1/4 of the people attending were wearing masks. This is normal.

Masked meetings in the ER room don’t count.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to go to work during the pandemic, even when the entire medical profession said it was safe, because they didn't "feel" it was safe?

Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to get vaccinated for covid, even after it was required?

You'll have to forgive us parents if we're not ready to give teachers the benefit of the doubt after the string of horrendous decisions they made during the pandemic.

I say this with all due respect: If you don't trust the people your kids spend 7 hours a day with, you need to get your kid out of there.
In 2020 my kid's K teacher was tweeting nonstop under her own name about how angry she was having to do 2 hours a day in person with the little (masked) germ factories, the unfairness of it all that her friends got to WFH, the Trumpy parents who were responsible for this workplace hazard, that she was putting her life on the line, and so on. I got my kid out! I don't want him being taught by someone who resents his presence. (And I was working in person 100% at a hospital the whole time.)

Our public elementary school has fired teachers for having unsavory social media profiles and posts. Why can’t yours?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to go to work during the pandemic, even when the entire medical profession said it was safe, because they didn't "feel" it was safe?

Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to get vaccinated for covid, even after it was required?

You'll have to forgive us parents if we're not ready to give teachers the benefit of the doubt after the string of horrendous decisions they made during the pandemic.

I say this with all due respect: If you don't trust the people your kids spend 7 hours a day with, you need to get your kid out of there.
In 2020 my kid's K teacher was tweeting nonstop under her own name about how angry she was having to do 2 hours a day in person with the little (masked) germ factories, the unfairness of it all that her friends got to WFH, the Trumpy parents who were responsible for this workplace hazard, that she was putting her life on the line, and so on. I got my kid out! I don't want him being taught by someone who resents his presence. (And I was working in person 100% at a hospital the whole time.)

Our public elementary school has fired teachers for having unsavory social media profiles and posts. Why can’t yours?

I didn't report her. I didn't feel the need to explain why I was pulling him. The union president was saying similar things on Facebook and admin was just desperate to keep their teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to go to work during the pandemic, even when the entire medical profession said it was safe, because they didn't "feel" it was safe?

Are we talking about the same teachers who refused to get vaccinated for covid, even after it was required?

You'll have to forgive us parents if we're not ready to give teachers the benefit of the doubt after the string of horrendous decisions they made during the pandemic.

I say this with all due respect: If you don't trust the people your kids spend 7 hours a day with, you need to get your kid out of there.
In 2020 my kid's K teacher was tweeting nonstop under her own name about how angry she was having to do 2 hours a day in person with the little (masked) germ factories, the unfairness of it all that her friends got to WFH, the Trumpy parents who were responsible for this workplace hazard, that she was putting her life on the line, and so on. I got my kid out! I don't want him being taught by someone who resents his presence. (And I was working in person 100% at a hospital the whole time.)

Our public elementary school has fired teachers for having unsavory social media profiles and posts. Why can’t yours?

I had a daycare teacher who publicly posted things like "wake and bake" in her freaking school uniform. She was fired a few hours after I told the director.

[Anonymous]

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?

WTF do you care? You have no idea with what is happening with your child's teacher. I guess Lucy McBride and Smelkinson have a new friend

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all are absurd.

At a meeting at my job on Friday of about 25 people at least 1/4 of the people attending were wearing masks. This is normal.

I don’t care if people wear masks or don’t, but this is not in any way normal in 2024 in the US.

WEll, that's because you are not aware that there is more covid now then there has been in any fall during this pandemic. But you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y'all are absurd.

At a meeting at my job on Friday of about 25 people at least 1/4 of the people attending were wearing masks. This is normal.

I don’t care if people wear masks or don’t, but this is not in any way normal in 2024 in the US.

Actually, it is normal among people who had previously "invisible" chronic health conditions. Thing is, our health conditions aren't invisible anymore because of the masks, so the rest of you can't pretend they don't exist anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be disappointed but never say anything and I can concede she has a right to do it.

Personally I think the best way to prevent illness is not masking but good physical hygiene and eating well and getting exercise. But I can't prescribe that for other people.

I would probably choose not to send my kid to a school where *everyone* masked. Because I lived through that during Covid and I know it was hard for my kid. It's just not an ideal learning environment.

But it sounds like this is one teacher (who yes may have a very good reason to do it) and not the whole school. I'd acknowledge to myself that it's not the best but then get over it and move on.

Eating well doesn’t stop the parainfluenza virus from entering my nasal cavity when your kid sneezes right in my face.

2nd graders don't do that (at least most don't). You're thinking of preschoolers. Generally 2nd grade teachers aren't close enough to kids with regularity for this to be a huge issue.

And as someone who taught at a summer camp for years and has come into contact with many forms of contagious bodily fluids -- getting regularly vaccines and taking care of your health absolutely makes a difference. I rarely get sick even when my own kids are sick because I'm good about hand washing and eat well and exercise. When I do get sick it generally doesn't hit me hard.

How do you think people who actuallly work in hospitals and doctors offices do it. And no most of them do not wear masks all the time. Perhaps during the height of flu season or if something is going around but not all the time because it does inhibit your job.

I am a children's librarian and this is true. I don't mask. You get good at figuring out how not to get sick. I never touch my face ever. I don't touch commonly touched surfaces with my bare hands (door handles, knobs, common counters) and if I do I wash hands. And generally, I wash my hands religiously before eating and really during any transitions. Back on and off the public service desk, before and after story time, etc.

Amazing to me that you're a librarian but don't know how to read any research about covid- it spreads through the air, not surfaces, 6 ft away is a stupid rule we were told in the same time we were told to wipe our groceries.... if you know how to keep up with research you should understand how airborne illness spreads. And yes to the pp with history of cancer we should all be masking if you read enough about what covid does to your body. I'd be damn thankful to have a smart teacher educating my child.

[Anonymous]

I would take seriously any teacher wearing an N95, or KN95, but wearing a cloth or surgical mask these days shows an inability to keep up with aerosol research as it relates to covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be disappointed but never say anything and I can concede she has a right to do it.

Personally I think the best way to prevent illness is not masking but good physical hygiene and eating well and getting exercise. But I can't prescribe that for other people.

I would probably choose not to send my kid to a school where *everyone* masked. Because I lived through that during Covid and I know it was hard for my kid. It's just not an ideal learning environment.

But it sounds like this is one teacher (who yes may have a very good reason to do it) and not the whole school. I'd acknowledge to myself that it's not the best but then get over it and move on.

Eating well doesn’t stop the parainfluenza virus from entering my nasal cavity when your kid sneezes right in my face.

2nd graders don't do that (at least most don't). You're thinking of preschoolers. Generally 2nd grade teachers aren't close enough to kids with regularity for this to be a huge issue.

And as someone who taught at a summer camp for years and has come into contact with many forms of contagious bodily fluids -- getting regularly vaccines and taking care of your health absolutely makes a difference. I rarely get sick even when my own kids are sick because I'm good about hand washing and eat well and exercise. When I do get sick it generally doesn't hit me hard.

How do you think people who actuallly work in hospitals and doctors offices do it. And no most of them do not wear masks all the time. Perhaps during the height of flu season or if something is going around but not all the time because it does inhibit your job.

I am a children's librarian and this is true. I don't mask. You get good at figuring out how not to get sick. I never touch my face ever. I don't touch commonly touched surfaces with my bare hands (door handles, knobs, common counters) and if I do I wash hands. And generally, I wash my hands religiously before eating and really during any transitions. Back on and off the public service desk, before and after story time, etc.

Amazing to me that you're a librarian but don't know how to read any research about covid- it spreads through the air, not surfaces, 6 ft away is a stupid rule we were told in the same time we were told to wipe our groceries.... if you know how to keep up with research you should understand how airborne illness spreads. And yes to the pp with history of cancer we should all be masking if you read enough about what covid does to your body. I'd be damn thankful to have a smart teacher educating my child.

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