What are your kids saying about how many students/teachers masked today (3/1)?

[Anonymous]

My high schooler is excited to have made it onto a team and doesn’t want to miss playing time by catching covid so she’s choosing to keep her mask on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach high school. I had 4 kids all day without masks (84 students). I had mine off, but put it back on out of respect for them—I spend a lot of time helping kids one on one only inches from them, so if they felt safer with masks on I want to respect them and make them comfortable. I happily took it off during planning or when sitting at my desk far away from kids.

Thank you for being empathetic!

So here is the problem. You assume a teacher is not empathetic because they kept mask off. Mask use isn’t tied to how nice or kind of a person you are. Remember how we could follow the damn science and do all the things and not wear a mask?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My HS kid said about 50% unmasked. I think he is still masking at least part time, depending on the situation.

Are you in Loudoun? Or more rural area?

Vienna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One teen reported that their Chem teacher rearranged the room so that the unmasked kids are sitting in their own zone. He said no other teachers did this. His Chem teacher explained she has a compromised kid at home.

All 3 kids reported less than 15 kids total without a mask. They all agreed that the maskless kids were the ones who tried to previously attend without a mask after Youngkin took office.

Not allowed. You can report them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach high school. I had 4 kids all day without masks (84 students). I had mine off, but put it back on out of respect for them—I spend a lot of time helping kids one on one only inches from them, so if they felt safer with masks on I want to respect them and make them comfortable. I happily took it off during planning or when sitting at my desk far away from kids.

Thank you for being empathetic!

So here is the problem. You assume a teacher is not empathetic because they kept mask off. Mask use isn’t tied to how nice or kind of a person you are. Remember how we could follow the damn science and do all the things and not wear a mask?

I wasn’t saying the teacher was being empathetic for wearing a mask. What I appreciated is that the teacher tried to consider each student’s POV and figured if a particular student had a mask on then that student might prefer the teacher had one on when helping them.

[Anonymous]

Our son said 24 or 27 unmasked in his elementary school class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our son said 24 or 27 unmasked in his elementary school class.

24 of 27.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One teen reported that their Chem teacher rearranged the room so that the unmasked kids are sitting in their own zone. He said no other teachers did this. His Chem teacher explained she has a compromised kid at home.

All 3 kids reported less than 15 kids total without a mask. They all agreed that the maskless kids were the ones who tried to previously attend without a mask after Youngkin took office.

Not allowed. You can report them.

We were definitely told not to do this.

ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

My son said only a few kids in his HS classes were unmasked.

Interesting that more of the younger kids seem to be unmasking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son said only a few kids in his HS classes were unmasked.

Interesting that more of the younger kids seem to be unmasking.

Little kids have potentially more to gain (learning to read) and tolerate masks less well per WHO. So it makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Kindergarten - 7 unmasked out of 22 present while I was there (unmasked) volunteering with my kid’s class for library. Librarian also unmasked for most of the class.

Meanwhile, at the same school…

2nd grade - 0 unmasked out of 23. My child would have gone unmasked but felt uncomfortable taking it off if no one else was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are at Chantilly HS. One said that she was the only one unmasked in most of her classes. The other wore a mask and said that there were 1 or 2 unmasked in each of her classes.

Hmm. My kid goes there too and said it was about 50/50. Teachers and students.

[Anonymous]

My kid said it was about half masked, unmasked at our local ES located in Vienna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid said only the known Republican kids unmasked, and though she wanted to unmask, she even more didn't want to be associated with Republicans.

Troll.

Why are you calling my kid a troll, Karen?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be so quick to assume anything political or that there was much science or health consciousness from the kids about whether they masked or unmasked. I know many students who have told me they want to keep the mask because they can hide and be less self conscious about looks/makeup/pimples, etc