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 How many deaf or blind people have deficient emotional recognition or literacy or speech/sign language skills?
That is not a thing! There is no rational reason to believe that wearing masks will cause kids harm. [/quote]

My feelings about masks changed REALLY fast when my son’s preschool teacher admitted she can’t understand him in a mask. And that he has basically stopped talking aside from when he has his mask off for meals (and then he talks A LOT). I think kids can’t always describe their feelings about masks, it’s not that they painful or something but for kids who are still developing their language they can feel like a muzzle. If you know a preschool teacher ask them if they can really understand all the 3 year olds in their class when they are masked. I appreciated mine being honest. [/quote]
I teach upper elementary and can't understand most students through a mask. It's especially a problem for more introverted children who have to already work up the courage to speak up.
They can't usually hear me well either I am told although I go home with a sore throat daily from shouting through my mask.[/quote]

+3 and I wish more people would speak about this more publicly because if you say "I'm worried about the fact that my child's PK teachers and classmates cannot understand them at school" people just roll their eyes at you and tell you that you worry too much.

But our PK teacher also told me she can't understand most of the kids, especially not the soft-spoken ones, and that they also struggle to understand each other, which impacts socialization. She wears a microphone under her mask so now they can understand her and that's something, but so much is being lost. These kids are all supposed to start Kindergarten next year and the idea of them being masked again for that is really concerning to me. And I think that's the feeling of the vast majority of teachers and parents who work with this age group and see what two years of making actually means for a 3 or 4 year old. There are absolutely costs to this and they get steeper every day.

And yes, I could see the same being true for upper elementary. It's not okay to expect children to go several years without being able to interact face to face. Why would anyone think this is okay?[/quote]

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