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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.[/quote]

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.[/quote]

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP.  So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem. [/quote]

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.[/quote]

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks.  They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices.   I guess it burns your eyes to see it [/quote]

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.[/quote]

Yep. My hearing impaired son lip reads. If it weren’t for masks people would have no idea he has hearing loss. But I realize people like the PPs don’t care about kids like ours. [/quote]

Have you considered private school for deaf and hearing impaired? [/quote]

You people are awful. The solution for all special needs kids is not to sequester them away with all the other special needs kids so your “normal” kid doesn’t have to interact with them. You suck. [/quote]. Uh-huh. And yet your answer to people with immunity impaired children is “die it out.” Your hypocrisy is stunning. [/quote]

NP. No, that’s nobody’s answer. An immunity impaired child can protect themselves with a well fitting mask. Nobody wants to take that right away from them or any child, not even the posters above who have explained why other children masking impacts their kids.[/quote]

The problem with PP's comment is that it suggests she believed that all of the cloth masking done by children did anything at all. So, she never had a really logical point in the first place. What she cares about is the performance of appearing to care about immunocompromised kids, instead of policies that will actually help. Masking in schools is a wonderfully performative way of caring without actually requiring any of the effort of making substantial changes.[/quote]

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