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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Peer masking is reasonable because it’s not an undue burden.  That is the analysis.  If the school provides the class well-fitting masks, it’s no cost to the families, minimal costs to the schools, and at most upsets parents who prefer their kids be maskless but really can’t show actual harm or major burden on them (except maybe in limited circumstances where another child has a disability that prevents them from masking).  This is not actually as complicated as people are making it seem.[/quote]

It’s not complicated as long as you get to make up all the facts![/quote]

No actually the PP above - the one who states peer masking is reasonable - has the legal analysis correct (just their terminology is a little off). It's pretty hard for a school to claim that mask requirements are somehow a fundamental alteration to the program (that's the terminology, not undue burden) when all schools in VA already had mask mandates. [/quote]

The hurdle isn’t whether it’s reasonable, it’s whether it’s deemed necessary even after considering alternative modifications such as one-way masking, staff or teacher masking, ventilation improvements, and social distancing. No one is going to be given peer masking as modification just because they think it would be helpful. [/quote]

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