School Asking DC To Mask To Accomodate An Other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it doesn’t work for your kid have them move to a different class. Problem solved.

This is the answer. Just say no. No need for drama.

[Anonymous]

You arent entitled to this childs private medical info. If you or your kid won't mask for a few hours a week, then take them up on the offer to switch classes.

Personally I'd just have my child mask. I'm glad to see many other parents who actually care about other children in this thread! Do better, be better, for all our children.

[Anonymous]

Many parents would go to bat for a truly sick classmate. But even my cousin with cf doesn’t request that classmates mask because his doctors say it wouldn’t really help protect him. Instead they have to virtual school him during the high sickness months. So I think parents are right to be skeptical about this request without more information, it doesn’t really make medical or logical sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did all these medically fragile people exist before covid? I never saw anyone in a mask.

I can remember seeing maybe 3 people wearing a mask in my entire lifetime pre-covid, and all of them were very visibly cancer patients.

I have 4 kids ages 14-21. That's a lot of classrooms and a lot of classmates that I've encountered through them. None have ever had a classmate with more than a peanut/tree nut allergy.

Well the girl in my high school with leukemia missed several months of school in senior year. If there's something my kids can do now so that a similar child can attend school just a little bit more, then I'm more than happy to have them do that.

As for "none have ever had a classmate with more than a peanut allergy" How in the world would you know? I am 100% certain your kids went to school with kids with T1D or heart defects or any number of other non-visible medical issues that the ADULTS in the school knew about and dealt with, but the random classmates never knew about.

There’s no way masks would be enough to protect a child with acute leukemia. It would be wildly irresponsible to send that child into a high school no matter what masks are happening.

Add in the number of people who think it's okay to run around with Covid (or sick with whatever), as long as they're masked, would be more dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine it is your child, and they are trying to have a "normal" life and that could be made possible by being in a mask wearing class.

What are we teaching our kids here? To be put off by thinking of others?

There is absolutely no way that the school would ask this if the kid just wanted to mask because of covid and nothing else.

Seems like it is only part of your child's day.

there’s absolutely no proof that masking will help the child in question.

+1000

[Anonymous]

I would probably ask my kid to be moved rather than wear a mask. If it was only for a month or so, that would be fine. But the whole year? No. My kids already endured wearing masks for far too long at school due to the pandemic. What medical condition could the child possibly have that would require everyone else to wear a mask? It seems like just because people wore masks during the pandemic, it's now ok to ask everyone mask up for all sorts of things. Wide-spread mask wearing for health conditions didn't exist here in the US before the pandemic. The DC area has been extremely cautious about dropping masking and covid-related protocols so I guess I'm not surprised that this type of request is being made by a school around here.

I should add that I have no problem with schools being nut-free. That's a different situation that can be deadly for those with bad nut allergies. And adjusting my kids' lunch to be nut-free doesn't impact their learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got an email asking my child to wear a mask in a certain class becuse another child had a 'medical situation'. If we decline, DC will be moved to another class.

Am I wrong to be put off by this? A 'medical situation', without further explanation, could be anything between luekemia and being the child of one of those drama queens that won't let go of the mask because of the politics behind it. I won't force my kid to endure another year of masking to support the latter but I would bend over backwars to accomodate the former.

How do I go about answering the request?

Personally I would assume the school would have verified there was a significant medical situation. Do you really think schools are telling kids to mask based on other parent preferences and politics? If you want more information then ask the school what they can tell you about how a person goes about getting this kind of accommodation. Obviously they can't/shouldn't tell you the specific medical situation but they should be willing to tell you the process for something like this and examples of what kind of a need is significant enough.

[Anonymous]

If the kid is truly medically vulnerable they need to find an arrangement for alternative school. Masks are not going be worn well or reliably by other students and is a false sense of security. That said, just say under no circumstances is your kid going to be forced to mask on school.

[Anonymous]

I do not know what district you are in - may have missed - but the ACLU ruling only applies to these ten districts: The 10 school districts affected by the ruling are Albemarle County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Cumberland County Public Schools, York County School Division, Bedford County Public Schools, Chesapeake City Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/24/virgina-masking-school-aclu-suit/

The issue at this point is obviously the concerning lack of data that children masking prevents any sort of spread - esp as they take them off to eat etc. And when the vaccine is available to every school-aged high-risk child that needs it plus boosters - why ask others to to mask for you? Does this child go anywhere besides school, if so, then they are surrounded by non-masked. Children already have a low r-naught (see Catalonia study as example).

The high-risk child can mask themselves as well if the parents feel like asking them to do that. There are no studies showing kid's wearing non-fit tested masks are reducing spread. All the MMWR's and observational studies the CDC promoted of schools - when the timelines are expanded - show no reduction in spread/positive tests in mask mandated districts vs mask optional. And any observational studies done in 2020 or 2021 were using cloth masks so we can immediately see that a supposed effect is suspect. When you dig in deeper you'll see that their contract tracing only tested post-exposure of non-masked students - immediately confounding results.

Asking parents to make their students mask is a virtue signal at best at this point in 2023. COVID is endemic; it will be around the entire life of that child. Almost every child has had at this point per serological data. They can be vaccinated. They can mask themselves.

This is not justifiable from a public health perspective at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many parents would go to bat for a truly sick classmate. But even my cousin with cf doesn’t request that classmates mask because his doctors say it wouldn’t really help protect him. Instead they have to virtual school him during the high sickness months. So I think parents are right to be skeptical about this request without more information, it doesn’t really make medical or logical sense.

The irony is those us us who have kept our kids virtual are bashed for it too. Can’t win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not know what district you are in - may have missed - but the ACLU ruling only applies to these ten districts: The 10 school districts affected by the ruling are Albemarle County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Cumberland County Public Schools, York County School Division, Bedford County Public Schools, Chesapeake City Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/24/virgina-masking-school-aclu-suit/

The issue at this point is obviously the concerning lack of data that children masking prevents any sort of spread - esp as they take them off to eat etc. And when the vaccine is available to every school-aged high-risk child that needs it plus boosters - why ask others to to mask for you? Does this child go anywhere besides school, if so, then they are surrounded by non-masked. Children already have a low r-naught (see Catalonia study as example).

The high-risk child can mask themselves as well if the parents feel like asking them to do that. There are no studies showing kid's wearing non-fit tested masks are reducing spread. All the MMWR's and observational studies the CDC promoted of schools - when the timelines are expanded - show no reduction in spread/positive tests in mask mandated districts vs mask optional. And any observational studies done in 2020 or 2021 were using cloth masks so we can immediately see that a supposed effect is suspect. When you dig in deeper you'll see that their contract tracing only tested post-exposure of non-masked students - immediately confounding results.

Asking parents to make their students mask is a virtue signal at best at this point in 2023. COVID is endemic; it will be around the entire life of that child. Almost every child has had at this point per serological data. They can be vaccinated. They can mask themselves.

This is not justifiable from a public health perspective at this point.

You really do go to great lengths to show what an uncaring person you are.

[Anonymous]

If the email said an immune compromised child has requested. Then yes. Of course. But I’m not going to say yes to satisfy someone who is trying to avoid Covid and is otherwise healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not know what district you are in - may have missed - but the ACLU ruling only applies to these ten districts: The 10 school districts affected by the ruling are Albemarle County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Cumberland County Public Schools, York County School Division, Bedford County Public Schools, Chesapeake City Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/24/virgina-masking-school-aclu-suit/

The issue at this point is obviously the concerning lack of data that children masking prevents any sort of spread - esp as they take them off to eat etc. And when the vaccine is available to every school-aged high-risk child that needs it plus boosters - why ask others to to mask for you? Does this child go anywhere besides school, if so, then they are surrounded by non-masked. Children already have a low r-naught (see Catalonia study as example).

The high-risk child can mask themselves as well if the parents feel like asking them to do that. There are no studies showing kid's wearing non-fit tested masks are reducing spread. All the MMWR's and observational studies the CDC promoted of schools - when the timelines are expanded - show no reduction in spread/positive tests in mask mandated districts vs mask optional. And any observational studies done in 2020 or 2021 were using cloth masks so we can immediately see that a supposed effect is suspect. When you dig in deeper you'll see that their contract tracing only tested post-exposure of non-masked students - immediately confounding results.

Asking parents to make their students mask is a virtue signal at best at this point in 2023. COVID is endemic; it will be around the entire life of that child. Almost every child has had at this point per serological data. They can be vaccinated. They can mask themselves.

This is not justifiable from a public health perspective at this point.

You really do go to great lengths to show what an uncaring person you are.

Feelings are not the issue here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not know what district you are in - may have missed - but the ACLU ruling only applies to these ten districts: The 10 school districts affected by the ruling are Albemarle County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Cumberland County Public Schools, York County School Division, Bedford County Public Schools, Chesapeake City Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/24/virgina-masking-school-aclu-suit/

The issue at this point is obviously the concerning lack of data that children masking prevents any sort of spread - esp as they take them off to eat etc. And when the vaccine is available to every school-aged high-risk child that needs it plus boosters - why ask others to to mask for you? Does this child go anywhere besides school, if so, then they are surrounded by non-masked. Children already have a low r-naught (see Catalonia study as example).

The high-risk child can mask themselves as well if the parents feel like asking them to do that. There are no studies showing kid's wearing non-fit tested masks are reducing spread. All the MMWR's and observational studies the CDC promoted of schools - when the timelines are expanded - show no reduction in spread/positive tests in mask mandated districts vs mask optional. And any observational studies done in 2020 or 2021 were using cloth masks so we can immediately see that a supposed effect is suspect. When you dig in deeper you'll see that their contract tracing only tested post-exposure of non-masked students - immediately confounding results.

Asking parents to make their students mask is a virtue signal at best at this point in 2023. COVID is endemic; it will be around the entire life of that child. Almost every child has had at this point per serological data. They can be vaccinated. They can mask themselves.

This is not justifiable from a public health perspective at this point.

You really do go to great lengths to show what an uncaring person you are.

It’s not uncaring to point out the emperor has no clothes. You can keep ignoring he’s naked if you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not know what district you are in - may have missed - but the ACLU ruling only applies to these ten districts: The 10 school districts affected by the ruling are Albemarle County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Cumberland County Public Schools, York County School Division, Bedford County Public Schools, Chesapeake City Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/24/virgina-masking-school-aclu-suit/

The issue at this point is obviously the concerning lack of data that children masking prevents any sort of spread - esp as they take them off to eat etc. And when the vaccine is available to every school-aged high-risk child that needs it plus boosters - why ask others to to mask for you? Does this child go anywhere besides school, if so, then they are surrounded by non-masked. Children already have a low r-naught (see Catalonia study as example).

The high-risk child can mask themselves as well if the parents feel like asking them to do that. There are no studies showing kid's wearing non-fit tested masks are reducing spread. All the MMWR's and observational studies the CDC promoted of schools - when the timelines are expanded - show no reduction in spread/positive tests in mask mandated districts vs mask optional. And any observational studies done in 2020 or 2021 were using cloth masks so we can immediately see that a supposed effect is suspect. When you dig in deeper you'll see that their contract tracing only tested post-exposure of non-masked students - immediately confounding results.

Asking parents to make their students mask is a virtue signal at best at this point in 2023. COVID is endemic; it will be around the entire life of that child. Almost every child has had at this point per serological data. They can be vaccinated. They can mask themselves.

This is not justifiable from a public health perspective at this point.

You really do go to great lengths to show what an uncaring person you are.

Feelings are not the issue here.

It’s all about feelings.