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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids who have been at Inspired for many years and [b]I've given the school the benefit of the doubt on lots and lots of decisions and have, by and large, been happy to sit back and let them do their thing.[/b]

But, after 2.5 years of pandemic, with CDC guidance where it is, and with literally every other institution relaxing their mitigation strategies, I feel like it's appropriate to give families a lot more explanation than "we are masking."

I'd like to know more so that I can explain to my kids why they are required to wear masks at school and not anywhere else. Because right now? I don't have it in me to carry the school's water on this. I am also really bummed that my kids are starting another year with (at least some) teacher attention diverted to mask compliance vs. building classroom community and teaching/learning. [/quote]

This is the result of you giving ITDS the "benefit of the doubt" and letting "them do their thing" while other parents have been speaking out about the school's pathetic handling of COVID (closure, masks, on and on). You should have been speaking out and supporting parents who were pushing back on the school years ago. 2.5 years later and your kid is still forced to wear a mask. [/quote]

Not an ITS parent but I have sympathy for people in this situation. We DID speak up and were immediately told that it was unreasonable to do so, that our suggestions to loosen the mask policy in line with DCPS and CDC guidance would endanger students and staff and "we don't want to go back to virtual, do we?" Like it was some kind of threat.

It's honestly easier to just leave your school than to try and get a school determined to be as Covid cautious as possible to consider science-based arguments for different policies.[/quote]

There's truth to this.  The fact is I will never totally understand how the "acceptable" position at our DCPS flipped from "YOU ARE KILLING TEACHERS HOW DARE YOU DEMAND IN PERSON" to "GIVE MY KID AN IN PERSON SEAT RIGHT NOW DAMMIT!"  But it seemed to change immediately once most parents were vaccinated or about to be vaccinated.  I was one of the few parents willing to speak up, and would always have other parents contact me offline to tell me they agreed, but very few would say it in front of others.  I think I credit it to the fact that our teachers are actually really, really good and as much as it probably was stressful to go back in person, they knew full well that virtual was not working.  [/quote]

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