When should DC drop its school mask mandate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I keep getting reminders and emails from my JKLM to sign up for spring fundraising events. I have approximately zero interest in supporting a school system that continues to advocate for keeping our kids masked, while simultaneously gathering parents for unmasked parties. I wonder if this might be a useful angle for advocacy. Recognizing the mayor could care less about PTAs, vocally withholding monetary support could mobilize the PTAs to start realizing how pissed off parents are...

Lol the most amusing part of the past 2 years is seeing all of the angry white people realize the limits of their white privilege.

Really? For me its been watching smug liberals like you piss away their governing majority, lol!

+1 except I haven't found it amusing, because there are a lot of liberal causes I support and care about. It's painful to watch our ability to pursue those slip away due to Covid-caution extremism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I keep getting reminders and emails from my JKLM to sign up for spring fundraising events. I have approximately zero interest in supporting a school system that continues to advocate for keeping our kids masked, while simultaneously gathering parents for unmasked parties. I wonder if this might be a useful angle for advocacy. Recognizing the mayor could care less about PTAs, vocally withholding monetary support could mobilize the PTAs to start realizing how pissed off parents are…

Lol the most amusing part of the past 2 years is seeing all of the angry white people realize the limits of their white privilege.

Really? For me its been watching smug liberals like you piss away their governing majority, lol!

+1 except I haven’t found it amusing, because there are a lot of liberal causes I support and care about. It’s painful to watch our ability to pursue those slip away due to Covid-caution extremism.

Tale as old as time: people get a little taste of power and pretty soon they can’t stop themselves from really sticking it to their enemies. Then the backlash comes and they’re worse off than if they’d been a little more modest in their ambitions. Sometimes you just have to laugh at human folly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I keep getting reminders and emails from my JKLM to sign up for spring fundraising events. I have approximately zero interest in supporting a school system that continues to advocate for keeping our kids masked, while simultaneously gathering parents for unmasked parties. I wonder if this might be a useful angle for advocacy. Recognizing the mayor could care less about PTAs, vocally withholding monetary support could mobilize the PTAs to start realizing how pissed off parents are...

Lol the most amusing part of the past 2 years is seeing all of the angry white people realize the limits of their white privilege.

Wow. You might want to take a look at COVID vaccination rates and death rates by race before you start LOL'ing about race and the pandemic. Also, plenty of us who want mask mandates in schools lifted aren't white. But by all means please impress us with your amazing use of meaningless woke jargon.

[Anonymous]

Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

[Anonymous]

My fed agency just sent a notification out that masks are no longer required inside (as we're all preparing to return to work). This is so incredibly unfair to my 3 year old. It is so depressing and I feel really sorry for her. To what end we're doing, I really can't tell. For godsake, she is still wearing a mask OUTSIDE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fed agency just sent a notification out that masks are no longer required inside (as we're all preparing to return to work). This is so incredibly unfair to my 3 year old. It is so depressing and I feel really sorry for her. To what end we're doing, I really can't tell. For godsake, she is still wearing a mask OUTSIDE.

My fed office is similar, and it also feels completely bonkers that we are still masking kids OUTSIDE. My charter hasn't changed their mask policies.

People keep telling me "oh it'll just be a couple more weeks" but they also told me that schools would open in Fall, 2020. So I've got no faith in such predictions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

Does CDC recommend that 3-4 year olds continue to mask indoors? That's all that is relevant here. Or should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

Does CDC recommend that 3-4 year olds continue to mask indoors? That's all that is relevant here. Or should be.

DCPS doesn't seem to really be using the CDC recommendations so that wont be factored in I'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

I’m worried about this too. Meanwhile, in my view, it’s the PK kids who will most benefit from the option to unmask. My PK4 kid is not yet vaxxed but I’m comfortable with the risk level and concerned about the downsides of masking such young children for such long periods of time. Although I’m really not looking forward to all the other junk she’s going to bring home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

Does CDC recommend that 3-4 year olds continue to mask indoors? That's all that is relevant here. Or should be.

DCPS doesn't seem to really be using the CDC recommendations so that wont be factored in I'm sure.

When DC announced the dropping of its mandatory indoor masking policy for adults but retained it for schools, I wrote to the Council, who informed me that they were following CDC guidance (at the time). So here's hoping that they continue to do so, or could be pressured to follow CDC guidance. (It is so, so sad that we have to pressure the government to follow public health guidance.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

[Anonymous]

A cute snapshot from China, the world's last bastion of COVID Zero:

https://twitter.com/libijian2/status/1499605890751623168?s=20&t=IaBS4aq5HDigvoXQDeGWmg

Guess what? No masks for the kindergarteners!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago will likely drop their indoor school mask mandate soon - like in the next 2 weeks,

Do they have public pre-k in Chicago? I feel like Pre-K being in the building (and mostly 4 year olds unable to vaccinated in those room) is what will hold us back in DC from lifting it by the end of the school year. Even though there is very little to no mixing of Pre-K kids with the greater school population. Ugh.

It would be completely non-sensical if this were to happen, because an unvaccinated pre-K student is more protected from COVID than a vaccinated adult.

I'll say it again -- the flu is more dangerous for pre-K kids than COVID, and yet somehow we managed to send kids to daycare and pre-K quite safely without masks before 2020.

There are very, very few places in the US and in the world that are requiring 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds to mask because it is idiotic. This was clear by mid-2020 to anyone with a brain paying attention to studies on COVID transmission and incidence.

NY is lifting the indoor mandate in schools except for those under 5. FFS

WTAF. I'm so sorry if this is the way that DC will go. Christ. This is so, so stupid, and I feel awful for the people with <5s, who have been completely ignored in the pandemic.