Official word—no more masks as of 3/1/22

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Anonymous wrote:Sending my ES kids in masks tomorrow and going in a mask myself (MS teacher) ... nervous there will be pressure/judgement from un-masked students and staff.

Probably, yes. We think you’re crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Sending my ES kids in masks tomorrow and going in a mask myself (MS teacher) ... nervous there will be pressure/judgement from un-masked students and staff.

I teach Upper ES and I spoke to my students about the mask mandate today and that they shoukd discuss with their parents. Most said they will continue masking.

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Anonymous wrote:you people are insane ,
you act like this is a civil rights movement smh

It is.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

ES Teacher

Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

My own coworkers said in our group chat “I will be judging teachers who don’t mask.” Which like ok but why tell people? Anyway, do what you want. People will judge either way. I’m so sick of my entire personality and value system being assigned to this mask. I will wear it in surge periods/ winter but we need to remove this stigma of moral deficiency if people take it off in lower risk times. There were 750 new cases in all of VA yesterday. It’s arguably fine to go without at this current time.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

ES Teacher

Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

My own coworkers said in our group chat “I will be judging teachers who don’t mask.” Which like ok but why tell people? Anyway, do what you want. People will judge either way. I’m so sick of my entire personality and value system being assigned to this mask. I will wear it in surge periods/ winter but we need to remove this stigma of moral deficiency if people take it off in lower risk times. There were 750 new cases in all of VA yesterday. It’s arguably fine to go without at this current time.

Spot on with the personality and value system!!

I am just exercising my choice like everyone else. I am not judging that they still want to wear it.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

ES Teacher

Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

My own coworkers said in our group chat “I will be judging teachers who don’t mask.” Which like ok but why tell people? Anyway, do what you want. People will judge either way. I’m so sick of my entire personality and value system being assigned to this mask. I will wear it in surge periods/ winter but we need to remove this stigma of moral deficiency if people take it off in lower risk times. There were 750 new cases in all of VA yesterday. It’s arguably fine to go without at this current time.

Spot on with the personality and value system!!

I am just exercising my choice like everyone else. I am not judging that they still want to wear it.

Why are teachers and schools environments so judgmental? Never heard of a workplace so drama filled and gossipy. My own office dropped the mask requirement yesterday. No discussions about who would or would not mask. We’re just moving on and doing what’s right for each person. Mask optional is a nonevent in my office. And I’m sure we have immunocompromised people, people with kids less than 5, etc in the office building.

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Anecdotally, I saw a lot of masks worn outside my kids high school at drop off today.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

ES Teacher

Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

My own coworkers said in our group chat “I will be judging teachers who don’t mask.” Which like ok but why tell people? Anyway, do what you want. People will judge either way. I’m so sick of my entire personality and value system being assigned to this mask. I will wear it in surge periods/ winter but we need to remove this stigma of moral deficiency if people take it off in lower risk times. There were 750 new cases in all of VA yesterday. It’s arguably fine to go without at this current time.

Spot on with the personality and value system!!

I am just exercising my choice like everyone else. I am not judging that they still want to wear it.

Why are teachers and schools environments so judgmental? Never heard of a workplace so drama filled and gossipy. My own office dropped the mask requirement yesterday. No discussions about who would or would not mask. We’re just moving on and doing what’s right for each person. Mask optional is a nonevent in my office. And I’m sure we have immunocompromised people, people with kids less than 5, etc in the office building.

I don’t know. Maybe because schools are mostly women? Especially elementary? But no doubt this is often how schools are.

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My kids HS was about 50/50 today.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, I saw a lot of masks worn outside my kids high school at drop off today.

My kids are surveying the scene first before making any changes. My very introverted kid may stay masked for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, I saw a lot of masks worn outside my kids high school at drop off today.

+1 School aged kids are a flock of sheep. The alphas (cool kids) will dictate whether masks are worn or not. Unless your kid is popular, I suspect they wore a mask today to find out what the alphas are doing first.

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Spouse teaches at an FCPS high school. Reported over 90% of students wearing masks. I dropped our kid off at SACC. All but one student was wearing a mask.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, I saw a lot of masks worn outside my kids high school at drop off today.

People see what they want to see. Most of the kids outside my child's middle school were UNMASKED. I saw more pajama pants then masks.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who wanted mask optional, please people just take the win and move on.

+1 We got what we believed was correct and we should just be pleased our children can finally remove their masks. Let's move on rather than trying to do some sort of end zone celebration about it.

I am not. I am a teacher and wanted the option. I’m actually afraid of the reaction tomorrow. There have been some nasty comments already about fellow teachers being maskless.

Nasty comments from fellow staff? I haven’t noticed that. I was thinking a good number of staff will be without masks tomorrow. Of course I realize it will vary by school.

ES Teacher

Yes. I’ve heard through the grapevine teachers making comments about what they think of co workers who won’t mask.

And there will be others who will be making comments on how crazy it is to still wear a mask, your absurb paranoia about covid (especially given the 70%+ vax rate and herd immunity in this area), and how you can't seem to understand the worst is over and move on.

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We moved out of state and our school system approved voluntary masks last May. It took a week or so before students started taking masks off.

The only kids wearing masks in high school are those whose politics drive their mask wearing. Nobody would say anything to them directly, but it’s sad and it’s almost exclusively black students.