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

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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.

You’re not as educated as you think.

Please keep up calling anyone who voted R uneducated, etc. You are helping us and will continue to help in the next election. - your smiling, silent neighbor

[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.

You’re not as educated as you think.

Please keep up calling anyone who voted R uneducated, etc. You are helping us and will continue to help in the next election. - your smiling, silent neighbor

Just be sure to let your kids know they have to be 18 to vote, and almost 18 doesn’t count.

[Anonymous]

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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!

The will be in direct violation of the new VA law, which says they have to follow the CDC.

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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.

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.

I wish I could and still keep my job!

[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.

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.

It was also more Asian communities voting against things like Math Pathways or anything that might end lump their cram-school overachievers in with the black kids. Matt Taibbi’s substack article on this was eye opening. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/loudoun-county-virginia-a-culture

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The various education-related EOs are red meat for the base and conflict with other law that takes precedence. If a school district can figure out how to comply with the state and federal constitutions, state and federal statutes (ADA and the IDEA) and the EOs, which are subject to judicial review, then more power to them.

[Anonymous]

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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!

I disagree with your logic because I don’t think Hutchings/ACPS acknowledge the flaws in their Covid mitigation. They think they have a good mask policy as of now and Youngkin for political reasons is undermining those efforts. The decision to ACPS isn’t necessary political.

My view is: (1) ACPS needs to tighten its policies and practices and (2) bear the cost if necessary to fight Youngkin’s political order.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It was also more Asian communities voting against things like Math Pathways or anything that might end lump their cram-school overachievers in with the black kids. Matt Taibbi’s substack article on this was eye opening. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/loudoun-county-virginia-a-culture

Call it CRT or whatever else you want, but deliberately reducing Asian admittance to TJ by 30% and then gaslighting the affected families by telling them they're racists actually happened, and certainly produced some of those Biden/Youngkin voters that elected Youngkin.

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I’m convinced Youngkin doesn’t even GAF if school districts defy him. He fulfilled his campaign promise and what happens next is immaterial to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m convinced Youngkin doesn’t even GAF if school districts defy him. He fulfilled his campaign promise and what happens next is immaterial to him.

He cares- did you see his response directly to Arlington County? He said he will do everything in his power to make sure they comply. Unf'ing believeable. He said it was time to listen to what the parents want. In Arlington County, we didn't want Youngkin!

https://twitter.com/NickWTOP/status/1482793696072450048?t=yvPiGLN0rOwmx3PQUd5LpQ&s=19&fbclid=IwAR0iWa91-kpAbMPsmOucIJQcDDvlKX1gR_bYWxFIdjh2a50KVQWtjpoPwy8

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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.

That's because kids don't a F about masks anymore, just some of their throwing tantrum parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

rural? what about all the suburban moms freaking out about here in NoVa?

[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.

You’re not as educated as you think.

Please keep up calling anyone who voted R uneducated, etc. You are helping us and will continue to help in the next election. - your smiling, silent neighbor

You were played. If you think he gives two sh*ts about your child’s education without a mask or admission to TJ, I have a bridge to,sell you. And if you want to enact the Handmaid’s Tale and strip away safety and climate regulations, then why don’t you just go move to Alabama with your own kind.

[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.

You’re not as educated as you think.

Please keep up calling anyone who voted R uneducated, etc. You are helping us and will continue to help in the next election. - your smiling, silent neighbor

Not PP. I don't think you are uneducated, just ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You’re not as educated as you think.

Please keep up calling anyone who voted R uneducated, etc. You are helping us and will continue to help in the next election. - your smiling, silent neighbor

Not PP. I don't think you are uneducated, just ignorant.

Agreed. So many highly educated ignorant people in this area.