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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no clear evidence that masks impact children’s speech or social skills. It’s just something that gets repeated because anti-maskers need a justification. [/quote]

False.  There is PLENTIFUL research on the impact of masks on communication; and pre-existing research on the role of faces and learning social skills/emotions/language.  Beyond that, masks are an invasive intervention.  It's just not true that you can mandate any intervention as long as there is not "clear evidence" against it.  (Or whatever evidentiary standard you're using; it's a moving goal post.) Likewise claim that "blind kids learn to speak just fine, masks are not a problem!" is false.  It's well known that visually impaired kids need specialized instruction for acquiring language and social skills because of the missing nonverbal cues.

I'm not even going to post the research here because there's so much. Anyone who is interested can search on Google Scholar.   [/quote]

There are also millions of dead people from covid. So what's your point? Teachers should risk their lives and well being for your benefit?[/quote]

If a teacher wants to mask, it's their prerogative. It's a suboptimal dynamic, but the kids will unfortunately have to deal with it for the year and hope for a non-masking teacher next year. Hopefully OP can get their kid moved in the meantime.[/quote]

I think any parents who really want to avoid this going forward need to move away from this area. Maybe even Frederick, AA, or Howard counties would be better, I’m not sure.  The teachers who wanted to unmask have done so, I don’t see anything changing in the next year that would persuade more of them to do so.  I would assume this is the new normal going forward where there will be some teachers who mask. [/quote]

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