Masks in the fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1. The students have suffered enough, leave. Look around, people are out and about just fine. If you have an impending Covid test for sienthing, that’s when people wear a mask, to get on their flight. That’s it. And even now it’s not many countries.

[Anonymous]

Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

I am the above poster, and actually, DC has fared better in deaths per capita than most states (43 out of 52 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm). So, it worked when it needed to. My view is now that there are vaccines, my kids do not need to wear masks in school.

And to the poster who said who said we will be playing the covid lottery again, maybe I will change my behavior when I hear of actual people I know getting covid again. At this point, more than 75% of the people in my big circle of co-workers, family and friends have gotten covid. None of them have gotten it twice. I will choose to play the lottery if it means my kids no longer miss out on seeing faces, travelling, family get togethers and weddings, playdates, birthday parties, museums, not being cohorted in a small group in school, field trips, so many things. They add up. They missed out on a lot. They got covid. They are fine. I don't want them to miss out on so much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Talk to any education hiring manager what they found this spring trying to replace quality teachers. It's a thin, mediocre applicant pool, ESPECIALLY once the school has started, if some idiot HOS wants to fire teachers for wearing a mask.

Nice fat lawsuit too when they dismiss someone for coping with a proven medical condition. Do you think any school manager wants that grief?

Dream on. This isn't a FOX News fantasy, it's real life.

[Anonymous]

Who fires anyone for wearing a mask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

I am the above poster, and actually, DC has fared better in deaths per capita than most states (43 out of 52 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm). So, it worked when it needed to. My view is now that there are vaccines, my kids do not need to wear masks in school.

And to the poster who said who said we will be playing the covid lottery again, maybe I will change my behavior when I hear of actual people I know getting covid again. At this point, more than 75% of the people in my big circle of co-workers, family and friends have gotten covid. None of them have gotten it twice. I will choose to play the lottery if it means my kids no longer miss out on seeing faces, travelling, family get togethers and weddings, playdates, birthday parties, museums, not being cohorted in a small group in school, field trips, so many things. They add up. They missed out on a lot. They got covid. They are fine. I don't want them to miss out on so much more.

Vaccines don’t stop transmission and we don’t have accurate numbers due to home testing.

I have it now and it’s been over two weeks of misery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No really. There are huge teacher shortages. Why don’t you teach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

LOL, no. I will happily wait to be fired for wearing my mask. I will not only be paid for my unused leave but I will be able to collect unemployment. Sounds like a win/win situation for me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No really. There are huge teacher shortages. Why don’t you teach?

Because those who complain about teachers would never stoop to such a low-paid profession as educating children and shaping their future. That's for the working classes to do, and do as they're told by those writing the checks.

That's the fantasy world, at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Again, pls flag yourself to your school and community and country as someone who plans on behaving as above. Very extreme. And detrimental to education in Pk-12. Go teach online programs or find a WFH job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Talk to any education hiring manager what they found this spring trying to replace quality teachers. It's a thin, mediocre applicant pool, ESPECIALLY once the school has started, if some idiot HOS wants to fire teachers for wearing a mask.

Nice fat lawsuit too when they dismiss someone for coping with a proven medical condition. Do you think any school manager wants that grief?

Dream on. This isn't a FOX News fantasy, it's real life.

The pods home-school model worked amazing! Like a governess model for a group of 6-8 kids. No masks. Highly recommend and certainly over masked teachers in a subpar curriculum or unacademic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

LOL, no. I will happily wait to be fired for wearing my mask. I will not only be paid for my unused leave but I will be able to collect unemployment. Sounds like a win/win situation for me!

Awesome attitude, what school and grade are you at again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Again, pls flag yourself to your school and community and country as someone who plans on behaving as above. Very extreme. And detrimental to education in Pk-12. Go teach online programs or find a WFH job.

I'm a parent! Hey but you should volunteer to teach since you seem to think it requires no particular skills and is so easy to do -- just show your lips I guess and you're qualified. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.