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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calm down.

Get ready for the masks to stay on, parents, if you want teachers teaching.  I'm not saying this as a threat but as an indicator of how we feel at [i]my[/i] school: none of the teachers I've spoken to at my school are willing to work with unmasked students until they are all vaccinated.  We don't think that will begin to be a reality until July/August.

I have promised my husband that I will quit if masks come off of kids and staff before we are at 90-95% FULL vaccination and it has been verified.  We don't need my salary and even if we did I am being hounded by online groups who want me to teach for them.  Some of them are fly-by-nights but some of them are extremely reputable organizations.  I could easily do that for a few years to keep my hand in and then go back to full time in-school teaching after we have a better handle on Covid, vaccinations, and preventing adult illness and transmission.

My advice is to stop your spiraling.  Your agitation about this matter only makes you more anxious and unstable.  Take a deep breath, go see your therapist, and work on managing your anxiety.

The kids are doing fine with masks.  We have near about 100% compliance every day at my school and the 1-2% are frequent fliers with known issues that are being addressed separately.  Kids in schools have adapted well to masks and are doing so well that most of them don't even care anymore about "mask breaks" and the like.[/quote]

Another ES teacher here (two ES teacher household). I posted at 14:15. I’m hearing more talk from colleagues about hopefully being able to remove masks in the spring. I haven’t heard anybody hope for immediately after winter break, but I’d consider it. I’d also say we have ~100% mask compliance. We don’t do mask breaks and they don’t ask. Over the first 10 weeks I think we’ve had 13 reported student cases between our two FCPS schools (~1600 students). Yes, they’ve been masked but they are also unvaccinated, unmasked at lunch and during recess. 10-11 weeks of unvaccinated and maskless during lunch is a pretty good sample. The kids are doing ok physically wearing masks, but it makes instruction and dealing with behaviors more difficult.

I don’t know that we’ll get to 90-95% vaccinated and maybe those who don’t who’ll have to mask for a while, but barring a big jump in positivity rate, cases per 100k, hospitalizations, etc. (which I’m guessing we won’t see) I really don’t see any reason to continue with masks for those who are vaccinated once all have had a sufficient opportunity to do so. Of course anyone could still choose to mask.[/quote]

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