How many schools still have indoor mask requirements?

[Anonymous]

For the "obiviously (sic) not a lawyer" folks scoffing at potential lawsuits, this just happened in New York courts:

https://twitter.com/Megmd514/status/1509927880180088842

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the "obiviously (sic) not a lawyer" folks scoffing at potential lawsuits, this just happened in New York courts:

https://twitter.com/Megmd514/status/1509927880180088842

So they found that the NYC mask mandate for toddlers was "arbitrary and capricious." Do we have any further info on the lawsuit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids in public schools don't have to wear masks? But kids in charter schools do? Why is that?

You are asking a bunch of uptight wealthy DC parents? Ask your charter school board!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the "obiviously (sic) not a lawyer" folks scoffing at potential lawsuits, this just happened in New York courts:

https://twitter.com/Megmd514/status/1509927880180088842

Why are the attorneys on this board always so wrong when someone suggests a lawsuit and they can't wait to tell why it will NEVER work? Are they dumb or not really lawyers and just making stuff up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids in public schools don't have to wear masks? But kids in charter schools do? Why is that?

Minor quibble, since you don't seem from here: The charters that we are talking about are public.

Sweetie, I've lived here longer than you've been alive. Yes, we know charters are public schools. I'm using the colloquial terms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For the "obiviously (sic) not a lawyer" folks scoffing at potential lawsuits, this just happened in New York courts:

https://twitter.com/Megmd514/status/1509927880180088842

Why are the attorneys on this board always so wrong when someone suggests a lawsuit and they can't wait to tell why it will NEVER work? Are they dumb or not really lawyers and just making stuff up?

Ermmm. One judge on Staten Island - the city is appealing. One judge also ordered that people take Ivermectin. Judges (like you) can be "low-information voters."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids in public schools don't have to wear masks? But kids in charter schools do? Why is that?

Minor quibble, since you don't seem from here: The charters that we are talking about are public.

Sweetie, I've lived here longer than you've been alive. Yes, we know charters are public schools. I'm using the colloquial terms.

OoooOOooOOo....ageism. That'll take you far.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids in public schools don't have to wear masks? But kids in charter schools do? Why is that?

Minor quibble, since you don't seem from here: The charters that we are talking about are public.

Sweetie, I've lived here longer than you've been alive. Yes, we know charters are public schools. I'm using the colloquial terms.

If you know the answer to your question why are you asking it? Since you've lived here always and forever, since before Lincoln, and have birthed a multitude.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the "obiviously (sic) not a lawyer" folks scoffing at potential lawsuits, this just happened in New York courts:

https://twitter.com/Megmd514/status/1509927880180088842

Why are the attorneys on this board always so wrong when someone suggests a lawsuit and they can't wait to tell why it will NEVER work? Are they dumb or not really lawyers and just making stuff up?

Ermmm. One judge on Staten Island - the city is appealing. One judge also ordered that people take Ivermectin. Judges (like you) can be "low-information voters."

LOL. I wasn't embarrassingly wrong twice in a row. It's the judge who was wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are in a DCPS where of course the mandate is lifted, but most people are still wearing masks. We'd be sending our 1st grader without a mask (she's vaccinated), but all of her friends are still wearing masks, as is the teacher, and when we asked her what she thought about it, she was very definitive in wanting to wear a mask until other choose to take it off. We didn't want to have an argument with her about it, so we dropped it. They even continue to wear them outside. Sigh.

I was of the mindset that everyone could choose for themselves and just be tolerant and it would be fine, but now I see that if the majority choose masking in a school environment, it's actually kind of hard to go against the grain. Especially for these younger kids -- they just want/need to be told what to do and it feels weird to them to take off their masks if others are not.

I am hoping things change a bit over spring break. We might even talk to DD a bit more over the break, about what the experts say about masking and why we don't mask outside or mask as often inside anymore. I also think much will be dictated by whether there is a big surge from BA.2, though indicators at the moment seem to be in favor of a significantly smaller surge than we saw with Omicron.

It sounds like you are surprised that everyone didn’t chose your choice.

She has good reason to be surprised. The vast majority of kids don't have good reason to keep masking.

But why? If it’s individual choice then she shouldn’t be surprised people choose different than her. We are not homogeneous. And yes can talk all about the science etc etc but it’s personal choice

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a DCPS where of course the mandate is lifted, but most people are still wearing masks. We'd be sending our 1st grader without a mask (she's vaccinated), but all of her friends are still wearing masks, as is the teacher, and when we asked her what she thought about it, she was very definitive in wanting to wear a mask until other choose to take it off. We didn't want to have an argument with her about it, so we dropped it. They even continue to wear them outside. Sigh.

I was of the mindset that everyone could choose for themselves and just be tolerant and it would be fine, but now I see that if the majority choose masking in a school environment, it's actually kind of hard to go against the grain. Especially for these younger kids -- they just want/need to be told what to do and it feels weird to them to take off their masks if others are not.

I am hoping things change a bit over spring break. We might even talk to DD a bit more over the break, about what the experts say about masking and why we don't mask outside or mask as often inside anymore. I also think much will be dictated by whether there is a big surge from BA.2, though indicators at the moment seem to be in favor of a significantly smaller surge than we saw with Omicron.

It sounds like you are surprised that everyone didn’t chose your choice.

She has good reason to be surprised. The vast majority of kids don't have good reason to keep masking.

But why? If it’s individual choice then she shouldn’t be surprised people choose different than her. We are not homogeneous. And yes can talk all about the science etc etc but it’s personal choice

Right? What’s really important for a child to learn in school isn’t science, it is to ignore science and care about peer pressure.

Actually I think far left would agree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in a DCPS where of course the mandate is lifted, but most people are still wearing masks. We'd be sending our 1st grader without a mask (she's vaccinated), but all of her friends are still wearing masks, as is the teacher, and when we asked her what she thought about it, she was very definitive in wanting to wear a mask until other choose to take it off. We didn't want to have an argument with her about it, so we dropped it. They even continue to wear them outside. Sigh.

I was of the mindset that everyone could choose for themselves and just be tolerant and it would be fine, but now I see that if the majority choose masking in a school environment, it's actually kind of hard to go against the grain. Especially for these younger kids -- they just want/need to be told what to do and it feels weird to them to take off their masks if others are not.

I am hoping things change a bit over spring break. We might even talk to DD a bit more over the break, about what the experts say about masking and why we don't mask outside or mask as often inside anymore. I also think much will be dictated by whether there is a big surge from BA.2, though indicators at the moment seem to be in favor of a significantly smaller surge than we saw with Omicron.

It sounds like you are surprised that everyone didn’t chose your choice.

She has good reason to be surprised. The vast majority of kids don't have good reason to keep masking.

But why? If it’s individual choice then she shouldn’t be surprised people choose different than her. We are not homogeneous. And yes can talk all about the science etc etc but it’s personal choice

Right? What’s really important for a child to learn in school isn’t science, it is to ignore science and care about peer pressure.

Actually I think far left would agree.

Well then doesn’t that seem like a family issue?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am really curious what kind of personality disorder results in being obsessed with what other people's schools are doing on masking.

NP. The personality disorder is called being interested in policy issues. It afflicts many people in DC.

But seriously...get a cause. What are you going to do at the schools that are masking until Spring Break? Cause a ruckus? Stress out already chronically stressed out administrators? Take a deep breath and let these schools figure it out. You don't have all the information about why individual schools are taking slightly longer to life their mandate. It's likely they have a good reason. Chill out.

I am perfectly chill about the unmasking issue as far as my own kids are concerned, because they are already allowed to do so. But I continue to take an interest in this topic because a) I think ALL kids, not just my own, should be given this freedom, and b) because masking is just the most visible expression of the much larger issue of restrictions this society has imposed on children because of Covid. The way we have treated kids the past two years represents one of the biggest domestic policy failures of this pandemic, and it will be a long time before the ramifications are fully known, and some of the harms will be impacting many kids for the rest of their lives.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Do these people just want kids to mask forever? Life with coronavirus is not going to be all that different a year from now, two years from now, five years from now. Coronavirus will be with us forever. The only thing that will change is people will stop caring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do these people just want kids to mask forever? Life with coronavirus is not going to be all that different a year from now, two years from now, five years from now. Coronavirus will be with us forever. The only thing that will change is people will stop caring.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people who are in denial and think they can avoid covid.