Peer pressure to mask in elementary?

[Anonymous]

My 4th grade DD was masked for a few days along with most kids. She and her friends decided to stop wearing them one day and a few days later most kids followed suit. I'm happy that they kids seem to be figuring it out for themselves. With spread so low, I don't see an ill fitting cloth mask being that valuable, so it seems like a low stakes way to let kids make decisions as a group.

[Anonymous]

My first grader is still wearing a mask even though we told him he can take it off. He says most kids are still wearing masks. My impression is that a lot of them have younger siblings ineligible for the vaccine and their parents asked them to keep masking for a little while longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wearing masks is part of a caring culture. You know, trying to keep others safe. Not just caring about yourself, etc.

You don't care about the cons of masks so you're not caring either.

Hey, I get you. Q sent me. We know the masks are used for the lizard people to identify one another but trust in Rudy Giuliani. He has a plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So few of the students are wearing masks, so if there was pressure I would expect or to be the other way. I haven’t seen or heard of any pressure.

ES Teacher (on lunch break).

This is what our kids tell us as well . . . almost no one in their ES classes is wearing masks (our kids dropped them on March 1), so hard to see how there would be pressure to mask.

Both of their teachers also promptly emphasized, to the kids in class and to the parents by e-mail, that masking was a personal/family decision, and that no one would be moved around the room, treated differently, etc. based on mask preferences.

This is very school specific. Our elementary is still about 80% in masks. Teachers in masks too.

Same here and more like 90%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wearing masks is part of a caring culture. You know, trying to keep others safe. Not just caring about yourself, etc.

You don't care about the cons of masks so you're not caring either.

Hey, I get you. Q sent me. We know the masks are used for the lizard people to identify one another but trust in Rudy Giuliani. He has a plan.

What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

This week our ES had an online update with the principal, which principal has done often and I appreciate. Someone asked how the mask optional transition was going, and principal said fine and around 80% of kids were still masking, as were most teachers. A parent who also substitutes piped up that she saw lots of kids who brought masks, which she said meant their parents must want them to wear one, but who were not wearing them. She said she reminded kids all day that they should wear their masks, since parents were sending them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This week our ES had an online update with the principal, which principal has done often and I appreciate. Someone asked how the mask optional transition was going, and principal said fine and around 80% of kids were still masking, as were most teachers. A parent who also substitutes piped up that she saw lots of kids who brought masks, which she said meant their parents must want them to wear one, but who were not wearing them. She said she reminded kids all day that they should wear their masks, since parents were sending them.

Oh dear. My child no longer wears a mask but we still send one just in case. Teacher has no business reminding kids to wear masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This week our ES had an online update with the principal, which principal has done often and I appreciate. Someone asked how the mask optional transition was going, and principal said fine and around 80% of kids were still masking, as were most teachers. A parent who also substitutes piped up that she saw lots of kids who brought masks, which she said meant their parents must want them to wear one, but who were not wearing them. She said she reminded kids all day that they should wear their masks, since parents were sending them.

Oh dear. My child no longer wears a mask but we still send one just in case. Teacher has no business reminding kids to wear masks.

Yeah, it was a sub not a teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This week our ES had an online update with the principal, which principal has done often and I appreciate. Someone asked how the mask optional transition was going, and principal said fine and around 80% of kids were still masking, as were most teachers. A parent who also substitutes piped up that she saw lots of kids who brought masks, which she said meant their parents must want them to wear one, but who were not wearing them. She said she reminded kids all day that they should wear their masks, since parents were sending them.

Yikes. My kids go to school with masks. I don't care if they wear them or not. DS (6th grade) takes frequent mask breaks as do his friends and teacher. DD (4th grade) still wears her mask pretty religiously though she will pull it down in PE for brief breaks if they are running a lot. Her teacher never removes her mask and most of her classmates are still masked except for a few who came in without from March 1 on.

What did the principal say to that woman??? She should not be doing that.

[Anonymous]

I can certainly think of WORSE activities as a result of peer pressure. Such as my HS kids NOT wearing masks because very few are.

[Anonymous]

I wonder where these elementary kids learned to judge people based on mask presence or absence?

(no, I don’t)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else’s child facing this? My child was told to put their mask back on the other day by another student. My child had taken it off for a 10 minute break. So much for a caring culture.

Everyone is facing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else’s child facing this? My child was told to put their mask back on the other day by another student. My child had taken it off for a 10 minute break. So much for a caring culture.

Everyone is facing this.

Yes. And its sad. Kids forced to wear masks for months and now so conditioned to it that middle and high school kids won’t take them off so other kids don’t see what they really look like.

And everyone in the DMV thinks this is completely normal behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone else’s child facing this? My child was told to put their mask back on the other day by another student. My child had taken it off for a 10 minute break. So much for a caring culture.

Everyone is facing this.

Yes. And its sad. Kids forced to wear masks for months and now so conditioned to it that middle and high school kids won’t take them off so other kids don’t see what they really look like.

And everyone in the DMV thinks this is completely normal behavior.

Some of us have younger children who cannot be vaccinated. So it seems pretty appropriate to me to ask those kids to stay masked, to keep their younger siblings safe. Hopefully there will be vaccines for them soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grade DD was masked for a few days along with most kids. She and her friends decided to stop wearing them one day and a few days later most kids followed suit. I'm happy that they kids seem to be figuring it out for themselves. With spread so low, I don't see an ill fitting cloth mask being that valuable, so it seems like a low stakes way to let kids make decisions as a group.

Why were you sending your child to school with an Ill-fitting cloth mask? Those are the masks that bother students. Most students who wear well-fitting KF94s don’t even seem to notice they’re wearing them.