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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean "the level of mask discipline required in those circumstances cannot be maintained in schools"?  It currently IS being maintained in schools, with high levels of acceptance and adherence by students and staff alike.  The only people screeching about how masks need to come off are the people who AREN'T in schools.  By and large, teachers and staff in Alexandria schools strongly support masking, especially when they don't know if a child has been vaccinated or not (yes, there is a small number who want to unmask but it is a sificantly small number).  As parents, we strongly support masking for the same reason.  We have absolutely no confidence that the unmaskers have vaccinated their children; after all, if they were more careful and prudent they wouldn't support unmasking in the first place so it stands to reason that they also would be anti-vaxers.

Yesterday I overheard a few people discussing the possibility of a class action suit aimed at the SB if they move forward with following the EO & SB 739.  I believe the speakers were also discussion either the same or a different suit (spelling?  law is not my area) Youngkin and all the other bleepers who supported the new legislation.  We could firmly get behind that.

The SB for Alexandria has a fiduciary responsibility to keep our children safe.  Putting children in harms way by purposefully exposing them to unmasked and unvaccinated children certainly seems to go against that responsibility.  If unmasked and unvaccinated children are kept in a different room and if they are not near my children, fine.  If not, then we will have a big problem.  It is not okay to endanger my children because some anti-vaxer and anti-masker is having an anxiety attack about their kid wearing a mask.  Preventing unmasked and unvaccinated children being around mine in school would be a law suit we would fully support in word, action and as much money as it takes.[/quote]

This just makes me so sad. As a mom to a kid with significant speech difficulties, who is really struggling to understand and be understood, the fact that parents out there feel this way are heartbroken. Please don't assume that all kids that unmask have anti-vaxxer, anti-mask parents. My kid is vaccinated, and already had covid, so really isn't a danger to your child. Your attitude and heartlessness towards my kid is terrifying.[/quote]

You need to advocate for your child and we need to advocate for ours.  Your child, if indeed he does have an IEP and a legitimate disability, is the 0.001%.  That you cannot see that is ... alarming.  I will not endanger my children because of a child like yours whose needs can easily be met in a self-contained classroom.  The 0.001% doesn't get to drive what happens to the rest of us.[/quote]

Yep, my child has an IEP. Yep, I've tried to advocate for this repeatedly. And, ACPS has repeatedly denied my request. All speech therapy needs to happen with both parties masked, no exceptions. And just because a child has an IEP does not mean they belong in a self-contained classroom. In fact, it's actively discouraged, it's called inclusion. Look it up.[/quote]

ACPS should provide virtual speech therapy so both the teacher and student can be unmasked as an accommodation. [/quote]

You might be trying to be helpful, but kids don't only speak and need to be understood during speech therapy sessions. They actually need to communicate and be understood all of the time.[/quote]

Sweetie, there are more than one of us replying to you.  Why on earth would you deny virtual speech therapy and virtual classes for your child?  That's crazy.  You would completely achieve your goal of your child being able to see the mouth and face.

And above about the IEP.  Self-contained classrooms are known to be better than inclusion for virtually every special education student because the student gets one-on-one treatment.  Many parents like you don't want your children in self-contained classrooms, you want inclusion, so that you feel better about your child's disability.  Oddly you and the school systems are aligned even if the reasoning is diametrically opposed.  If you read the literature it is all very carefully couched.  School systems, you're right, would prefer all students in inclusion settings because it is significantly cheaper.  You get to save face and the school district gets to save money.

~SPED Teacher (for another district)[/quote]

Aww, sweetie, I hope you get Covid.[/quote]

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