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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, my kids actually "attended" kindergarten via zoom and then attended first grade completely masked with "distancing guidelines" in place that prevented their teachers from helping them learn to write with any kind of hand-over-hand assistance.  Now they're in second grade, wonderful readers, smart and pleasant, but they can BARELY WRITE.  They were in OT as preschoolers for their fine motor skills but "virtual OT" during 2020/2021- which is what was offered- provided little assistance, as you can imagine.

So if they have a cough and feel fine, they're going to school, because AT SOME POINT THEY NEED TO LEARN THINGS.  Sorry, not sorry. And my husband and I both work full time so don't @ me about how I should homeschool them or whatever. [/quote]
I’m confused. You think people are doing hand over hand with your child when they are visibly ill? When coughing kids show up in my class I steer clear of them. If they ask for help I stand back and ask them what they need. I’m not going to sit six inches away from a sick person, child or adult. [/quote]

Read more closely. The teachers were not allowed to do hand over hand or help with pencil grip AT ALL in first grade because of distancing guidelines. My kids were not sick. They were in KF94 masks and perfectly healthy. And the year before they were on zoom. So yes I do expect that at some point in their lives a teacher will help them learn how to write- they work hard and they try but they need a teacher to teach them. And I pass no blame onto the teachers that couldn’t help them during K and 1st because there were rules in place. But I’m sorry if my kid has a mild
Runny nose and you won’t go anywhere near them maybe you need to find a work from home job because if you just wear a well fitted mask yourself, you won’t catch what they have. Signed, a physician who wears a well fitting mask as young children with myriad viruses spew germs into my face without masks on day in and day out and have somehow survived, thanks to my N95. You can buy them on Amazon if you’re that worried about a runny nose. [/quote]
I wouldn’t trust a mask from Amazon, but thanks for the hot tip. I’m not worried that your child’s cough will kill me, but I’m not going to pass the flu or RSV to my infant by working closely with a sick child. Not sorry. You should certainly expect to work closely with sick people as a doctor, so I have little sympathy. Sick kids are not supposed to be at school (although they come in all the time) so the expectation is certainly not that I am hovering over a coughing child. [/quote]

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