Masks at drop off... why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Apparently your conception of god behavior is to be an a$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Her garbage mom. I am a teacher. I’m asking you to do us a solid- for YOUR child. So they keep their darned mask on. But… it’s probably not your job either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many people thinking rules don’t apply to them is how we got here in the first place

actually, how we got here was by people obsessing over things that don’t help (cleaning, outdoor masking) and ignoring things that do help (testing, tracing, isolation, vaccination.) if you purport to care about covid in DCPS you shouldn’t spend a single second on compliance with absurdly stupid and ineffective rules like outdoor masking or quarantining after car trips out of the DMV. instead, you should be wondering why DCPS is not requiring all staff and teachers to be vaccinated, and also be working to make sure all DC residents get vaccinated. Because there are still big unvaccinated pockets.

Preach. Why is it not mandatory that all teachers and staff be vax’d absent a true medical exemption (that would cover like 5 people or less statistically).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Her garbage mom. I am a teacher. I’m asking you to do us a solid- for YOUR child. So they keep their darned mask on. But… it’s probably not your job either.

My kid can keep his mask on because he knows that he’s a kid and has to follow rules at home and at school. But nice role model you’re giving of respect for parents. “Garbage mom” indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Apparently your conception of god behavior is to be an a$$.

If you need me to wear a mask to impose discipline on your child - maybe try some parenting classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Her garbage mom. I am a teacher. I’m asking you to do us a solid- for YOUR child. So they keep their darned mask on. But… it’s probably not your job either.

+Seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At my kids upper NW school I am one of the few parents wearing a mask at pick up. Do I think I need to wear one outdoors fully vaccinated? Of course not. Do I do it out of respect for the schools rules, regardless of what I think of them? Yes.

I tell my kids, when you go to someone’s house and they ask you to take off your shoes, you do it. Your rules do NOT apply on someone else’s property, and if you think they do, that’s called entitlement.

Thank you.

And out of respect for the kids. They are stuck wearing them. We can support them in that instead of flaunting how it still sucks for only them.

should we also wear school uniforms out of respect for kids? carry a lunch box? do their homework?

of all the dumb arguments to mask outdoors, this is the dumbest.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know, OP, but I refuse to do it. No one has ever said a word to me about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because you’re crowded around the entrance with a lot of unvaccinated children. You can wear a mask for the 5 min it takes to drop your kid off. Be kind.

And because you are around a bunch of kids who still have to wear them all day. It’s modeling good behavior.
Are you kids cool about wearing a mask while you don’t?

DP. It’s not my job to model your model of good behavior to your children.

Her garbage mom. I am a teacher. I’m asking you to do us a solid- for YOUR child. So they keep their darned mask on. But… it’s probably not your job either.

NP. My 5 year old is quick to tell me, “mom, you don’t have to wear a mask because you have the medicine” while she still wears her mask just fine.

[Anonymous]

Its grooming you and them to accept the vaccine. Wake up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP it's stupid.

It is stupid. Some areas are addicted to the hygiene theater.

[Anonymous]

Probably because even though some people are vaccinated they might be on medicine that suppresses their immune system for autoimmune disorders. Doctors do not have enough data to say how vaccines work in these cases.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. I didn’t have time to put on makeup and my mascne isn’t gone.
2. It’s a show of solidarity for the kids.
3. How can we expect such a huge ask from our kids when we can’t be bothered to wear one 2 minutes per day?
4. I live with someone who couldn’t get vaccinated and don’t want to take even the small chance.
5. Habit.
6. I don’t want to talk to anyone.
7. I have a cold.
8. I don’t want the RSV that’s been circulating in our school.
9. I’m going to the store right after and it’s easier to wear it up than have it pulling under my chin.
10. To piss you off.
11. I forgot to brush my teeth.
12. Shall I go on?

This thread is about why schools still *require* masks on parents outdoors, not why you love wearing them.

But are they really required though? Has someone made you leave school property for not wearing one?

It’s official policy. I occasionally ignore it, but I’m one of the few who do. I bet lots of (most) parents only wear them because they are rule followers. So the policy definitely has power, in conjunction with peer pressure.

DC is the land of blindly following rules regardless of how effective or useful they are. For such an educated region of the country independent thought is really lacking.

Couldn’t be more true. The hysteria I continue to see by vaccinated folks has me frightened. I belong to PG pool and some of the posts of members there have me worried about the future of DC. Some of the super hysteric ones don’t seem much different than the anti maskers stuff the beginning of pandemic.

My conclusion about most people I've met in DC is that they may have a lot of degrees, but few of them are actually educated, critical thinkers. They've checked all the right boxes in life to get where they are, but outside of their particular area of expertise, they're painfully provincial.

Anyway, I haven't worn a mask at pick up or drop off at our NW elementary school since I got vaccinated in early March. The school sent out some e-mails about the supposed rule. I deleted them. A teacher once stopped me and asked me to put on a mask. I ignored her and kept walking to go get my kid. I've been done with pandemic theatre for months.

You go girl! Noting so liberating as refusing to engage with someone asking you to follow a rule that all the other parents and kids are following. I bet when the other kids ask their parents why you aren’t wearing a mask they hold you up as a beacon of rebellion

Yes, it's quite liberating to ignore stupid rules.

I don't really care what the other kids and their parents think of me. I'm just there to pick up my kid, not be buddies with some random parents on the playground.

Whay should I care what strangers think of me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I didn’t have time to put on makeup and my mascne isn’t gone.
2. It’s a show of solidarity for the kids.
3. How can we expect such a huge ask from our kids when we can’t be bothered to wear one 2 minutes per day?
4. I live with someone who couldn’t get vaccinated and don’t want to take even the small chance.
5. Habit.
6. I don’t want to talk to anyone.
7. I have a cold.
8. I don’t want the RSV that’s been circulating in our school.
9. I’m going to the store right after and it’s easier to wear it up than have it pulling under my chin.
10. To piss you off.
11. I forgot to brush my teeth.
12. Shall I go on?

This thread is about why schools still *require* masks on parents outdoors, not why you love wearing them.

But are they really required though? Has someone made you leave school property for not wearing one?

It’s official policy. I occasionally ignore it, but I’m one of the few who do. I bet lots of (most) parents only wear them because they are rule followers. So the policy definitely has power, in conjunction with peer pressure.

DC is the land of blindly following rules regardless of how effective or useful they are. For such an educated region of the country independent thought is really lacking.

Couldn’t be more true. The hysteria I continue to see by vaccinated folks has me frightened. I belong to PG pool and some of the posts of members there have me worried about the future of DC. Some of the super hysteric ones don’t seem much different than the anti maskers stuff the beginning of pandemic.

My conclusion about most people I've met in DC is that they may have a lot of degrees, but few of them are actually educated, critical thinkers. They've checked all the right boxes in life to get where they are, but outside of their particular area of expertise, they're painfully provincial.

Anyway, I haven't worn a mask at pick up or drop off at our NW elementary school since I got vaccinated in early March. The school sent out some e-mails about the supposed rule. I deleted them. A teacher once stopped me and asked me to put on a mask. I ignored her and kept walking to go get my kid. I've been done with pandemic theatre for months.

You go girl! Noting so liberating as refusing to engage with someone asking you to follow a rule that all the other parents and kids are following. I bet when the other kids ask their parents why you aren’t wearing a mask they hold you up as a beacon of rebellion

Yes, it's quite liberating to ignore stupid rules.

I don't really care what the other kids and their parents think of me. I'm just there to pick up my kid, not be buddies with some random parents on the playground.

Whay should I care what strangers think of me?

Well I think you are an idiot if you are still dropping and picking your kids up from school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. I didn’t have time to put on makeup and my mascne isn’t gone.
2. It’s a show of solidarity for the kids.
3. How can we expect such a huge ask from our kids when we can’t be bothered to wear one 2 minutes per day?
4. I live with someone who couldn’t get vaccinated and don’t want to take even the small chance.
5. Habit.
6. I don’t want to talk to anyone.
7. I have a cold.
8. I don’t want the RSV that’s been circulating in our school.
9. I’m going to the store right after and it’s easier to wear it up than have it pulling under my chin.
10. To piss you off.
11. I forgot to brush my teeth.
12. Shall I go on?

This thread is about why schools still *require* masks on parents outdoors, not why you love wearing them.

But are they really required though? Has someone made you leave school property for not wearing one?

It’s official policy. I occasionally ignore it, but I’m one of the few who do. I bet lots of (most) parents only wear them because they are rule followers. So the policy definitely has power, in conjunction with peer pressure.

DC is the land of blindly following rules regardless of how effective or useful they are. For such an educated region of the country independent thought is really lacking.

Couldn’t be more true. The hysteria I continue to see by vaccinated folks has me frightened. I belong to PG pool and some of the posts of members there have me worried about the future of DC. Some of the super hysteric ones don’t seem much different than the anti maskers stuff the beginning of pandemic.

My conclusion about most people I've met in DC is that they may have a lot of degrees, but few of them are actually educated, critical thinkers. They've checked all the right boxes in life to get where they are, but outside of their particular area of expertise, they're painfully provincial.

Anyway, I haven't worn a mask at pick up or drop off at our NW elementary school since I got vaccinated in early March. The school sent out some e-mails about the supposed rule. I deleted them. A teacher once stopped me and asked me to put on a mask. I ignored her and kept walking to go get my kid. I've been done with pandemic theatre for months.

You go girl! Noting so liberating as refusing to engage with someone asking you to follow a rule that all the other parents and kids are following. I bet when the other kids ask their parents why you aren’t wearing a mask they hold you up as a beacon of rebellion

Yes, it's quite liberating to ignore stupid rules.

I don't really care what the other kids and their parents think of me. I'm just there to pick up my kid, not be buddies with some random parents on the playground.

Whay should I care what strangers think of me?

Well I think you are an idiot if you are still dropping and picking your kids up from school

Well, yeah, the school year is over, so I'm not doing that anymore.

And go ahead and think I'm an idiot, if it makes you feel better. Doesn't bother me.

It's great to reach a point in one's life when the opinions of irrelevant people become meaningless.