Were people masked for outdoor drop-off at your DCPS today?

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For those celebrating their new opportunity to be outside maskless at drop off and recess, I’m happy for you if this was an important development.

That said, I’m not sure why, in the face of this new choice, you are not satisfied and now must pass judgment on those who are still masked. The claims that the masked are hysterical, unscientific wackos is grossly unnecessary.

My family will continue to mask out of caution to protect a child in our household who is fighting for their life. I shouldn’t need to justify our family’s choice to those choosing to unmask (a choice that I am respecting). Perhaps consider that people’s lives are sad and complicated in ways that you thankfully don’t have to experience. Leave me and my family be in peace with our choice and I will do the same for you.


I’m sorry you have to deal with this. My nephew has cancer and it is so disheartening to see how judgmental people are about wearing masks when they have no clue what the story is.


No one should be harassed for choosing to wear a mask, but please remember that kids with hearing and speech impediments have been forced to mask for two years, which also was a huge challenge for them, and no one cared a bit about those challenges because the masks were The Science (LOL).

Of course, the US has been an outlier in the world with regard to masking children. Most places did not do this to very young children during the pandemic, even before vaccinations were available. And now our city is refusing to follow the CDC and keeping kids masked at school indoors, many people are at their breaking point with masks.

So I am the PP still masking to whom you are responding. I think you are missing my point. I DO empathize with the challenge for children with speech disorders. I AM happy that you now have this choice for your child. I do not need to be lectured or judged by the likes of you regarding the "lack of science." Your "LOL" if offensive as I poison my child with treatments that will hopefully allow them a future--there is nothing LOL about our situation or decision. Walk a mile in my shoes or that of the other poster who has a child in a literal fight for their life and leave me to make the best choice for my family. I don't need you to spout off the evils of masking or the victimization of children with speech disorders--I am not the enemy--I am one parent making a choice for my very vulnerable family. I celebrate your newfound freedom from masks outdoors--I am not standing in your way. You do you.

Unless you support giving parents the choice to send their children to school without masks BOTH indoors and out, you are standing in my way. I don't yet have the choice for my child to be unmasked in the classroom, where she most needs to be able to hear and see people's faces. So if I sound angry -- it's because I am. Make your choice. But recognize that many parents still haven't been given that same choice until indoor mandates are lifted.

Will you be fine with your child’s teacher continuing to mask? Because from your reply it sounds like they would also “be in your way”.

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Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

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Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

Why do people say stuff like this? “Children in Ukraine are suffering therefore you should mask your kids and like it”. Huh? These things have nothing to do with each other. And no, it’s not “perspective”. If anything, the perspective should be that we are blessed to have an opportunity to do right by are children, and are not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

Why do people say stuff like this? “Children in Ukraine are suffering therefore you should mask your kids and like it”. Huh? These things have nothing to do with each other. And no, it’s not “perspective”. If anything, the perspective should be that we are blessed to have an opportunity to do right by are children, and are not.

People are outraged that people are wearing masks at drop off. Yes it’s about perspective

I’m not convinced this more than one or two people responding and saying they are emailing.

When DC removes the mandate then what will they complain about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

Why do people say stuff like this? “Children in Ukraine are suffering therefore you should mask your kids and like it”. Huh? These things have nothing to do with each other. And no, it’s not “perspective”. If anything, the perspective should be that we are blessed to have an opportunity to do right by are children, and are not.

And maybe it’s the volume I’m seeing. I only read DCUM in am while making coffee. Um go work, take a walk but people seem to have a lot of time to post here which I think winds them up more. You can be maskless in DC go do that vs posting on here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

These are the same people who are upthread complaining that they are worried that people will be rude if they show up to school unmasked, calling people who where masks outside obstacles to their goal. You all have lost your minds and the thread. Chill out

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

And it’s statements like this….. waiting a week or a month will do what exactly? Oh precious angel is behind…….. behind what?

There are kids in Ukraine sleeping in a train tunnel. Chill.

Why do people say stuff like this? “Children in Ukraine are suffering therefore you should mask your kids and like it”. Huh? These things have nothing to do with each other. And no, it’s not “perspective”. If anything, the perspective should be that we are blessed to have an opportunity to do right by are children, and are not.

People are outraged that people are wearing masks at drop off. Yes it’s about perspective

I’m not convinced this more than one or two people responding and saying they are emailing.

When DC removes the mandate then what will they complain about?

Right, there are kids in Ukraine who are in a war zone, so no one should care about unmasking all school kids now. Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was pleased to see that the majority of parents weren't wearing them at drop off today. Some were still in KN95s though. Also, the staff members checking the screening app outside were still masked, which frankly surprised me.

This is WOTP.

I was happy not to wear a mask at outdoor drop-off, but I couldn't have cared less if other people wanted to. Why would it please you or not what other parents were doing? You don't want to wear a mask where you're not required to wear one, great. But taking them off is also not required.

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.

So me choosing to wear a mask at pickup is an obstacle to you not wearing a mask? That doesn’t even make any sense

[Anonymous]

My grandparents were told to hide under their desks if the US was hit by a nuclear bomb from the USSR. That was theater. But at the time it was all they could do.

My kid’s school protesting climate change is also theater but no one complains about that.

Are the same people advocating to not wear a mask in school also advocating for parents to be able to back in the building? Volunteering anything at the school?

Wearing a mask for the three minutes for drop off especially when kids couldn’t be vaccinated is the least of my problems.

So I agree this sounds like people complaining to complain.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this personal choice? Why does matter if others were wearing their masks? This doesn’t affect you.

+1… I am so tired of people caring if people are wearing masks or not outside. There are much bigger issues in the world right now.

Right, there are babies dying somewhere, so no one should care if kids all unmask right now. 100% agree.

I guess I am also mildly interested why people care so much. Folks might wear masks for a number of reasons going forward. I certainly will continue to wear a mask when I go out and I have a little cold that is not worth staying home for. Folks might need to wear a mask because they are immuno-compromised. I am hoping we eventually get to a place where people are not so "judgy" about it -- either way.

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandparents were told to hide under their desks if the US was hit by a nuclear bomb from the USSR. That was theater. But at the time it was all they could do.

My kid’s school protesting climate change is also theater but no one complains about that.

Are the same people advocating to not wear a mask in school also advocating for parents to be able to back in the building? Volunteering anything at the school?

Wearing a mask for the three minutes for drop off especially when kids couldn’t be vaccinated is the least of my problems.

So I agree this sounds like people complaining to complain.

In much of the country, parents can be in the building and unmasked. DC is now an outlier. Uniquely stupid is worse than just stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Sigh...it's judgment - for that, you must be judged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Sigh...it's judgment - for that, you must be judged.

I have no idea what this means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone cares if individuals choose to wear masks. It is the judgement and shaming that is the issue. That obviously exists (as witnessed by the Janney partner teacher). For adults, who cares. But our kids are involved here. We are trying to ascertain if our kids are going to receive negative repercussions (socially from peers, educationally from teachers) if they choose to unmask.

Someone here does:

Because I want the indoor mandate dropped ASAP and if I see parents masking outdoors, I assume they are likely far from supporting unmasking of kids indoors. Also, because outdoor masking is in most cases a marker of either irrational fear or virtue signaling, and I’d like to see less of either.