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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never want tell my kid that them not wearing a mask perfectly every day for a whole school year could result in their classmate becoming seriously ill or worse.  Kids don't need that kind of emotional burden. And if the kid did get sick, I wouldn't want someone in the class to think it was their fault because they took their mask down that one time or lost it for 15 minutes.  [/quote]

You don’t need to do that. Just explain they’re wearing a mask to provide extra protection and a classmate. It doesn’t need to be that dramatic and I promise kids will accept and understand. Have your kids really never had to do anything to accommodate another person in their life?[/quote]

Not to this degree, no. I can’t even think of anything comparable that has ever been asked of a kid in school (not being snarky, honestly can’t think of an example). And you must have the kind that just accepts whatever answer you give them without follow up questions. I don’t. Me saying that the class has to wear a mask to protect a kid (when presumably other classes aren’t) would result in “but why? What will happen?” Etc. [/quote]

the comparable example would be requiring girls to wear shirts that cover their arms, because one boy needs a religious accommodation because his religion believes short sleeves on girls are evil. [/quote]

I think a more comparable example would be that I went to high school with a student who was a paraplegic. Their parents were concerned about how slow the elevator was and their ability to evacuate the school in an emergency so they asked that all of their classes be on the ground level, which the school agreed to. But all of the science labs were upstairs, which meant that those of us who were in science with this student did not get the same lab experience everyone else did but instead had to do heavily modified labs that were suitable for non-lab classrooms (and portable on carts).  It was far from ideal but we all learned the sciences and everyone had enough empathy and common sense not to protest it. [/quote]

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