2nd Grade Teacher wears a mask

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Anonymous wrote:This would bother me too. The teacher has a right to wear a mask but if it’s impacting her ability to perform her role and kids abilities to understand her, then that’s a problem. I’d talk to the school about it and have your kid switched. Teacher should probably be reassigned to something like a librarian or something. I don’t think she can be an effective teacher of elementary kids in a mask.

Of course a teacher can do a good job masked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would bother me too. The teacher has a right to wear a mask but if it’s impacting her ability to perform her role and kids abilities to understand her, then that’s a problem. I’d talk to the school about it and have your kid switched. Teacher should probably be reassigned to something like a librarian or something. I don’t think she can be an effective teacher of elementary kids in a mask.

Do you think a series of subs are effective? Because that is what you would get if you came at me with this.

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I stopped wearing masks and no one around me was wearing one for a long time, until I went to a cancer clinic, where so many people were wearing it.

You don’t know why the teacher is wearing it
a mask. Leave her alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew people would pile on.

It would bum me out OP. But you can't do anything about it and you shouldn't say anything. It is her right to wear a mask and we need teachers.

It does bother me when people act like it's nothing at all for the human guiding and teaching little kids to cover up their face all day. It's not nothing. For kids that age, or really anyone, to lose all context that comes with a person's expression is challenging and a missed social-emotional learning opportunity.

Both things can be true. The teacher should have the right to wear the mask and it can be a detriment to the kids too.

Maybe teachers wouldn't have to mask so much if parents stopped sending sick kids to school.

Not a teacher, but a parent that is sick of parents (those who can take sick leave and who have $) send their sick kids to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which is better: a teacher who wears a mask, a teacher who's out frequently due to illness, or a teacher who is a long-term sub because the actual teacher quit?

+1 this! It is none of your business, let them wear the mask. If your kid has trouble hearing them ask if they can get a microphone or something to make it easier to understand.

Also, so much is going around schools. My kid's class had emails sent about strep, Covid, and pneumonia. And the pneumonia is bad, at least one kid had to go on two antibiotics because the first one didn't work (heard from a parent).

A close friend had a child who had a sub for a long maternity leave. The sub was awful, so you don't want a long term sub!

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Anonymous wrote:You know what protects your delicate health better than a mask? Not working with young children.

You realize there is a teacher shortage right? And an even bigger one for good teachers?

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Anonymous wrote:Two years ago my older DD’s 4th grade teacher wore a mask all year. She was harder to understand but she’d missed the entire prior year while her 8 year old fought leukemia. He was still getting regular chemotherapy treatments. My daughter and her classmates always wore masks if they had so much as a sniffle because they knew they were trying to protect the teacher’s son. She shared this with the students and parents - in part because she had to use subs sometimes to cover for during chemo treatments - but I assume we don’t always know what a teacher is dealing with.

That teacher is a normal person who explains what's going on. A teacher who masks all year in 2024, with no explanation and gets bent out of shape when some asks what's going on, is just another loon. With the high numbers of English learners in our schools, you need a good reason to mask all day.

PrIVatE mEdICaL rEaSOn!!1!1!1

Get an office job.

No one owes you an explanation.

This.

In my life when I’ve offered an explanation to someone, that person has often weaponized it and tried to invalidate my reasoning. My boundary now is that I say or do what I need to with no explanation to others. Reasonable adults accept other adults’ reasonable boundaries. You are not entitled to know about my medications, pregnancy status, possible diabetes, etc.

I’d be so thankful if a teacher masked and set a positive tone to keep everyone healthy as that also teaches empathy and kindness.

+1

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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.

Who are you? It isn't your business to know someone's private medical information. Also, "sending the tutoring bills to the school district?" Seriously? Be a parent, read, and teach your kid when they get home from school!

It also boggles my mid when the "my body my choice" people are the ones yelling for teachers to take off their masks when they then send their sick kids into school. UGH.

I am not a teacher, btw.