Masking policy Arlington Diocesan Schools

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Anonymous wrote:I know a 5 year old pre-K student at an area Catholic grade school who is in the ICU as of this AM with COVID.

Congrats all, this is what we’ve signed up for.

I really hope this isn’t true.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a 5 year old pre-K student at an area Catholic grade school who is in the ICU as of this AM with COVID.

Congrats all, this is what we’ve signed up for.

I really hope this isn’t true.

That is terrible, but my child got Covid from school while there was a mask mandate. So not sure a mask prevents this.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a 5 year old pre-K student at an area Catholic grade school who is in the ICU as of this AM with COVID.

Congrats all, this is what we’ve signed up for.

I really hope this isn’t true.

That’s terrible. Praying for that little one. Were there also underlying health conditions?

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Anonymous wrote:I know a 5 year old pre-K student at an area Catholic grade school who is in the ICU as of this AM with COVID.

Congrats all, this is what we’ve signed up for.

I really hope this isn’t true.

That’s terrible. Praying for that little one. Were there also underlying health conditions?

What kind of question is this? Does it make you feel better if the child has underlying health conditions? Maybe the child just turned five and had not yet been vaccinated. PreK is usually four and five year-olds.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a 5 year old pre-K student at an area Catholic grade school who is in the ICU as of this AM with COVID.

Congrats all, this is what we’ve signed up for.

I really hope this isn’t true.

It's true - my children are at the school this child goes to, though in different grades.

No idea if the child has underlying conditions (it would be wildly inappropriate for anyone to share that!).

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Anonymous wrote:At drop off, I saw one of the elderly nuns at our school wearing what looked like 5 masks. But, at least the parents have their choice though! I feel for the older staff. Wish the governor could have waited a month or so for all of this.

Okay. That is really, really sad.

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Anonymous wrote:On Monday, my son's teacher thanked her 4th grade students who continued to wear masks. Later in the day, she lectured and guilted the maskless. One of the kids felt bad and put a mask on, insisting he wanted to wear it but his parents decided not. Needless to say, my son came home pleading with me to NOT sign the waiver (even though he recently had covid and has antibodies).

I hope that teacher is fired. If she has a problem with the decision she should direct her complaints to the diocese- not guilt trip a bunch of nine year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:On Monday, my son's teacher thanked her 4th grade students who continued to wear masks. Later in the day, she lectured and guilted the maskless. One of the kids felt bad and put a mask on, insisting he wanted to wear it but his parents decided not. Needless to say, my son came home pleading with me to NOT sign the waiver (even though he recently had covid and has antibodies).

I hope that teacher is fired. If she has a problem with the decision she should direct her complaints to the diocese- not guilt trip a bunch of nine year olds.

That is not teaching. It is mental abuse and brainwashing. Please contact the diocese directly.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

What is this obsession with the cool kids? This is your second post about it. So weird that you are so invested in the social hierarchy at your kid’s school. Do you have some unresolved issues about that from your own childhood? I could easily see the “cool kids” of a different class or school making the choice to keep their mask on and others following. Super weird that you think unmasking is somehow cooler. Very immature and says a lot about how you’re raising your kids. It’s like your cognitive development stopped at high school age.

Also, changing a seating chart is not segregation. Teachers change seating charts all the time for various reasons. Kids not wearing masks are not victims.

Look my kid is wearing a mask. But putting masked kids on one side and unmasked on the other claiming it's a "change to the seating chart" is bullying, You may not like the change, and I don't either, but do you really want teachers and admin bullying kids at the school for any reason. You can't know why every kid has chosen to unmask.

"In the corner" could mean "closer to the filter" or ventilation system. That's what the people on the Covid team suggest.

However, the governor's order banned teachers from talking about it.

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Anonymous wrote:On Monday, my son's teacher thanked her 4th grade students who continued to wear masks. Later in the day, she lectured and guilted the maskless. One of the kids felt bad and put a mask on, insisting he wanted to wear it but his parents decided not. Needless to say, my son came home pleading with me to NOT sign the waiver (even though he recently had covid and has antibodies).

I hope that teacher is fired. If she has a problem with the decision she should direct her complaints to the diocese- not guilt trip a bunch of nine year olds.

You've had him tested for antibodies to know this? Because up to 33% of infections produce no lasting antibodies.

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Some friends of ours opted to go maskless and do not believe in vaccinating children. They also do not want school shut downs or virtual - explain to me that disconnect.

They are leading the way. It’s time for quarantines and isolations to end. The more people that unmask the more difficult it becomes to do that.

People are vaccinated. We have treatments. We don’t need to quarantine healthy people anymore. We don’t need to close schools.

They are not "leading that way." They are self-involved idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:There are like 3 kids unmasked in DD class of over 25 kids. Get a grip people. Everyone is exercising their freedom of choice. When the fear mongers shut down public schools for a year, our catholic was just fine open. Nothing to see here.

"Freedumb of choice" affects others in a pandemic, you selfish jerk.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's just push for vaccinations for all and booster shots and then we can do away with masks and make it normal again. There. Fixed it.

If you want your kids to be in school with all students vaccinated, head across the river and Comrade Bowers will take care of you. Don't count on our new governor to mandate (ineffective) vaccines for kids who are not at high risk.

Cite your source? And, no, Fox News is not a source.

Everywhere. The vaccine does not prevent spread or infection. Every new station says that now!

Stop blaming the unvaccinated.

No, sweetie. "Everywhere" and "every news station" is not a source. Peer reviewed studies from reputable scientific publications only. Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

What is this obsession with the cool kids? This is your second post about it. So weird that you are so invested in the social hierarchy at your kid’s school. Do you have some unresolved issues about that from your own childhood? I could easily see the “cool kids” of a different class or school making the choice to keep their mask on and others following. Super weird that you think unmasking is somehow cooler. Very immature and says a lot about how you’re raising your kids. It’s like your cognitive development stopped at high school age.

Also, changing a seating chart is not segregation. Teachers change seating charts all the time for various reasons. Kids not wearing masks are not victims.

Unmasking is so much better for their mental health, development, confidence, and self esteem. My kids (and every student down in the states like Florida, where they've been unmasked for OVER A YEAR with sometimes LOWER case counts than here) couldn't be happier unmasked and will flourish. Data-deniers are sad and just make us all laugh. [/quote

The fact that you think the "data" coming out of Florida is valid is sad and laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Yes I agree our school has not done a good job communicating that they are no longer enforcing masking. Our teachers don’t know which kids have opted out.

Right. If this is about “parent choice” shouldn’t the school be enforcing masking for the families that have opted to continue? Seems like it should work both ways if the whole underlying premise is parental choice for each family. Hmm, guess that was actually just a cover for unmasking, huh?

Teachers have too much on their plates already. They cannot spend more energy policing maskers vs. non-maskers. This is why optional masking will be a sh*tshow!

I haven't read this thread, but I have a question.

Optional masking should mean that kids can mask or not, depending on choice. So a kid can mask today and not mask tomorrow, depending on choice. Why should the teachers be policing what kids do on their choice on any day? When a behavior is by choice, and choice can change over time even for a given kid, then there should not be any tracking of any sort.

The executive order frames it as if the parents have a choice.

In reality, the children are running the show here, as teachers have lost the right to 1) protest when they have to share a room with unvaccinated people who don't wear a mask and are not socially distant and 2) tell children that they SPOKE to the parent and the parent said they want the child do X/Y & Z.

So, yeah, the six year olds are really in charge now.

That always works out great.

Unvaccinated and unmasked kids are not the problem. It’s the kids going to school sick. These are usually the ones hiding symptoms behind masks.

What a load of ceap.