2nd Grade Teacher wears a mask

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apply for her job. You can be mask-free when you teach.

+1

+10000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my workplace the only people who mask are fresh out of college and seem to wear it for anxiety reasons. The older people, even those with health problems, don't bother.
There seems to be a real epidemic of 22 year olds who are "immunocompromised".
If the teacher was older this really wouldn't bother me though. An experienced teacher is worth their weight in gold.

I am an older teacher. I mask.
Also, I mask in theaters, crowded stores, airplanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

You aren't the only one who is bothered by this; there are a lot of vitriolic anti-science jerks out there who are triggered by the sight of people protecting themselves with masks.

I'm a teacher who sees 800 kids a week in my space. The hacking coughs, the filth, the fingers in noses, the smeared snot everywhere, the arsehole parents who drug their kids up and send them to schools with fevers. It was SO much better when we all masked. I avoided COVID and avoided passing it on to my elderly father in law that whole time.

The week masks came off, I got COVID. My health has never been the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

No you're not, you're just a selfish jerk who hates people that mask. Do you also call them "sheep"?

NP. I am 40 and have mild hearing loss. The pandemic was VERY hard when everyone was masked and customer service workers were behind those thick plastic partitions. I couldn’t understand a darn thing and it was frustrating for everyone involved.

So no, not everyone’s making it up and there are children with hearing issues as well. They just miss what the teacher is saying.

Presumably OP would have mentioned if her kid has hearing loss. It's likely the school has already accommodated kids with hearing loss, and teachers with medical issues that require a mask by not putting them together.

I wouldn’t assume that at all, particularly if it’s not severe enough to require a 504 or IEP. And once the kid is in the class, it’s awkward to bring it up without people calling you all of the things PP just call the original PP.

It just sucks and its not like schools were ever a low risk environment. Life is unpredictable, but that doesn't make it easier on kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

No you're not, you're just a selfish jerk who hates people that mask. Do you also call them "sheep"?

NP. I am 40 and have mild hearing loss. The pandemic was VERY hard when everyone was masked and customer service workers were behind those thick plastic partitions. I couldn’t understand a darn thing and it was frustrating for everyone involved.

So no, not everyone’s making it up and there are children with hearing issues as well. They just miss what the teacher is saying.

Presumably OP would have mentioned if her kid has hearing loss. It's likely the school has already accommodated kids with hearing loss, and teachers with medical issues that require a mask by not putting them together.

I wouldn’t assume that at all, particularly if it’s not severe enough to require a 504 or IEP. And once the kid is in the class, it’s awkward to bring it up without people calling you all of the things PP just call the original PP.

It just sucks and its not like schools were ever a low risk environment. Life is unpredictable, but that doesn't make it easier on kids.

If a parent has a child with a hearing loss severe enough that it impacts intelligibility when the child can't see someone's mouth, and hasn't shared that with the school or sought a 504 with things like preferential seating, then that parent has failed their child. Teachers need that information.

To say that a teacher needs to risk their health or their loved ones because schools were never low risk, when many of us learned during the pandemic that masks make a difference, is unfair.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprised at the responses but yeah, it’s ok to be bummed by this just like it’s ok to be kinda bummed if the teacher gets pregnant or something. It affects your kids experience at school. It’s obviously not ok to comment on either and there’s nothing you can do about it but can you be bummed? Certainly. Doesn’t make you a bad person.

Doesn't kind of though?

No, it really doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

No you're not, you're just a selfish jerk who hates people that mask. Do you also call them "sheep"?

NP. I am 40 and have mild hearing loss. The pandemic was VERY hard when everyone was masked and customer service workers were behind those thick plastic partitions. I couldn’t understand a darn thing and it was frustrating for everyone involved.

So no, not everyone’s making it up and there are children with hearing issues as well. They just miss what the teacher is saying.

Get a hearing aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my workplace the only people who mask are fresh out of college and seem to wear it for anxiety reasons. The older people, even those with health problems, don't bother.
There seems to be a real epidemic of 22 year olds who are "immunocompromised".
If the teacher was older this really wouldn't bother me though. An experienced teacher is worth their weight in gold.

Sounds like you have anxiety and mental health issues, maybe a perosnality disorder, if you don't have any empathy to why. The 22 year old could be living with someone or have health issues. I look perfectly healthy but I'm not. Your cold that you selfishly give me lasts months. Are you willing to come over and cook, clean and drive my kids? NO, so I'll keep masking.

[Anonymous]

I invested a lot of time and money to get a masters degree in education. It is my second career, and I can’t return to my first career without taking a huge pay hit. Unfortunately, I fell ill with Covid in March 2020. We now know that several families at my school were sick at the time. That illness left me vulnerable to infection and with long Covid. If I can’t mask, I can’t safely teach. Though I am now partially disabled, I still want and need to be a productive professional.

My colleagues mask for various reasons. One is pregnant but has not shared that news at work. Another is a diabetic. Their health conditions and reasonable accommodations are not anyone else’s business.

Several times I’ve read on this forum that “No one is going to mask to protect the immune compromised. We’re done with masking and never going back.” Then someone else, or perhaps the same person, will berate people who *do* mask as OCD and crazy. Some of us are still vulnerable in the Covid era. I’m not sorry that reality is inconvenient for entitled sociopaths. I sincerely hope that some of you do take this issue to your principals so that the administrators can look you in the eye and tell you how absurdly unreasonable you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my workplace the only people who mask are fresh out of college and seem to wear it for anxiety reasons. The older people, even those with health problems, don't bother.
There seems to be a real epidemic of 22 year olds who are "immunocompromised".
If the teacher was older this really wouldn't bother me though. An experienced teacher is worth their weight in gold.

Sounds like you have anxiety and mental health issues, maybe a perosnality disorder, if you don't have any empathy to why. The 22 year old could be living with someone or have health issues. I look perfectly healthy but I'm not. Your cold that you selfishly give me lasts months. Are you willing to come over and cook, clean and drive my kids? NO, so I'll keep masking.

I noticed that too it seems like a status symbol for gen zers

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with all these immune compromised people in the teach profession. They should be working flexible gubmt jobs so they can surf SCUM all day

Public school teaching is a government job, dumdum.

If masking were not allowed, teachers with medical issues could go on disability: is that what you want? While we're bringing in teachers on work visas because of the extreme shortage?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

No you're not, you're just a selfish jerk who hates people that mask. Do you also call them "sheep"?

NP. I am 40 and have mild hearing loss. The pandemic was VERY hard when everyone was masked and customer service workers were behind those thick plastic partitions. I couldn’t understand a darn thing and it was frustrating for everyone involved.

So no, not everyone’s making it up and there are children with hearing issues as well. They just miss what the teacher is saying.

Get a hearing aid

So it's OK to lack empathy and have zero desire to understand other people's struggles... as long as you are pro mask. Got it

[Anonymous]

An immunocompromised person would not work in an elementary school. How dumb could you be to do such a thing? Our district can reassign classroom teachers to non-classroom jobs if they fear getting sick from little kid germs.

[Anonymous]

The vitriol on this topic is out of control.

Someone is an entitled sociopath for saying they are bummed their 2nd graders teacher wears a mask? Really? Just listen to yourself. The inability to see anyone else’s point of view or have any empathy makes some of you raging narcissists if we’re throwing around mental disorders.

The teacher has every right to wear a mask and the OP can be bummed about it. That’s the only reasonable position on this topic.

[Anonymous]

So?? How does this have anything to do with you??????