Masks in the fall?

[Anonymous]

The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-DC area responses aren't really helpful. DC has been way more cautious than elsewhere in the country. Went to Target yesterday and 75% of people were masking in MoCo. I am the poster in the K-8 that announced starting the school year with masks. I am not completely surprised given the protocol at the camp and other area camps at schools (from talking to my friends and having my kids at a couple, some are mask required, some are mask optional). I expect teachers are going to mask if they haven't gotten covid yet. I would like my kids to have a choice, definitely not have to wear them outside and adjust if this next wave shows up. I am skeptical of the wave. I know so many people who have had covid in the last few weeks. All people who hadn't had it yet. But the cases aren't reported. The tide has been high all summer. And covid is coming for everyone it missed.

To what end? Have they fared any better as a result?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DC area responses aren't really helpful. DC has been way more cautious than elsewhere in the country. Went to Target yesterday and 75% of people were masking in MoCo. I am the poster in the K-8 that announced starting the school year with masks. I am not completely surprised given the protocol at the camp and other area camps at schools (from talking to my friends and having my kids at a couple, some are mask required, some are mask optional). I expect teachers are going to mask if they haven't gotten covid yet. I would like my kids to have a choice, definitely not have to wear them outside and adjust if this next wave shows up. I am skeptical of the wave. I know so many people who have had covid in the last few weeks. All people who hadn't had it yet. But the cases aren't reported. The tide has been high all summer. And covid is coming for everyone it missed.

To what end? Have they fared any better as a result?

Nope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another teacher here. I have worn a mask throughout the entire pandemic and will continue to do so until airborne transmission is no longer an issue. It is up to each adult to listen to the expertise of aerosols scientists. I recommend everyone check out Dr. Kim Prather’s work. We know it is very easy to get Covid. It is also very easy to not get Covid.

Lots of people that wear masks and have gotten COVID. And lots of people that don't wear masks haven't gotten it.

Exactly!! Nobody in our immediate family has gotten it yet, and I have a college student who likes to party and a younger one who never masks anywhere, including school. We all must be immune!!

[Anonymous]

I think many parents are in for a rude awakening when they see a majority (if not all) of teachers wearing masks this year. Many who stopped wearing them last year will be back to wearing them this year because of parents who don't test their kids and send them to school when sick. Many teachers are no longer willing to put their own health and their family members' health at risk because parents don't want their children to see people in masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many parents are in for a rude awakening when they see a majority (if not all) of teachers wearing masks this year. Many who stopped wearing them last year will be back to wearing them this year because of parents who don't test their kids and send them to school when sick. Many teachers are no longer willing to put their own health and their family members' health at risk because parents don't want their children to see people in masks.

Why would that constitute a "rude awakening"? I don't GAF if my kid's teacher wears a mask or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

[Anonymous]

This "covid is coming for everyone it missed" is backwards. Covid exists and will infect whoever is vulnerable, including people it has infected before. Play the covid lottery as much as you want. People who are masking have the right idea, imho -- at least try to reduce your risk (and your dosage) as much as you can.

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher who will continue wearing a mask at work, and if parents are hostile I have no problem leaving my school and those parents can accept a sub teacher. Most parents are absolutely fine. We only had one family who refused to follow the school's covid protocols, and they were asked to leave. I am grateful that my school's leadership prioritizes health and safety over parent complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many parents are in for a rude awakening when they see a majority (if not all) of teachers wearing masks this year. Many who stopped wearing them last year will be back to wearing them this year because of parents who don't test their kids and send them to school when sick. Many teachers are no longer willing to put their own health and their family members' health at risk because parents don't want their children to see people in masks.

I'm not sure what school you are at. Most of the teachers at my school don't plan to wear it so it may be the teachers wearing masks that are in for a rude awakening.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I’d like to to have masked teachers only teach masked kids and vice versa. It’s a quality thing. We have younger kids, they need to learn more and better than masked mumbling and zero social skills. And silent lunches. And zoned playground time limited to certain people and areas.

DC teachers and schools should run an article about themselves in the associated press so the kids east of the country and world knows all about its handful of Masked Teachers. Pls, share this with the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Almost every teacher at my child’s school was not wearing a mask by the end of the year. There were a few hold outs but only a handful.

+1. DC progressive school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DC area responses aren't really helpful. DC has been way more cautious than elsewhere in the country. Went to Target yesterday and 75% of people were masking in MoCo. I am the poster in the K-8 that announced starting the school year with masks. I am not completely surprised given the protocol at the camp and other area camps at schools (from talking to my friends and having my kids at a couple, some are mask required, some are mask optional). I expect teachers are going to mask if they haven't gotten covid yet. I would like my kids to have a choice, definitely not have to wear them outside and adjust if this next wave shows up. I am skeptical of the wave. I know so many people who have had covid in the last few weeks. All people who hadn't had it yet. But the cases aren't reported. The tide has been high all summer. And covid is coming for everyone it missed.

To what end? Have they fared any better as a result?

No.

My kids teachers have been out sick all the time and once due to Covid and took double the time despite no symptoms. April and may we’re a total waste of time, though the sub teachers were more disciplined than the regular one out sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many parents are in for a rude awakening when they see a majority (if not all) of teachers wearing masks this year. Many who stopped wearing them last year will be back to wearing them this year because of parents who don't test their kids and send them to school when sick. Many teachers are no longer willing to put their own health and their family members' health at risk because parents don't want their children to see people in masks.

Stay in your bubble and hopefully not at our school. Your false premises and neglect of the downsides and lift up of exaggerated upside is quite unacademic. That’s a shame to see how you attempt to think and reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.