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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I simply don't get it.  School-aged kids can mask.  Teaching them community responsibility is a good thing.  Teaching them to care about other students, their families and staff is a good thing.  If a child has SN and cannot wear one, it's one thing but given how many viruses are going around right now, it makes sense.  It's funny how the same parents screaming about learning loss when kids get sick are the same refusing masks and wanting accommodations for their kids when they are out sick.   I don't get why people enjoy being sick.  We've been so much healthier by masking, only eating outdoors, etc.[/quote]

My kids got much sicker during the 2021-22 school year while masking than this year so far. I think in part because they’re not constantly touching their faces to adjust their masks or pull them down. Their mental health is better. My oldest in particular had a lot of negative feelings about school after a year of virtual in K and a year of masking in 1st grade, he particularly hated masking during PE. He’s finally having his first normal year of elementary school and now loves to go. My younger kid has some sensory issues (and an IEP) and can’t wear a mask unless it’s one of those ridiculously thin athletic masks (which is what we did to check a box when masking was required so that he wouldn’t continue to lose out on needed services). So for my kids, not masking is absolutely a healthier choice. I know I’m not alone in not wanting my kids to mask. Stop trying to push the narrative that all kids can mask without issue, it’s just not true.[/quote]

Maybe your kids got sicker as they were doing things outside of school not masked.  That makes no sense they were sicker while masking.  It sounds like you are part of the problem and what example you set and teach in your home. Perhaps you should have gotten your kids better-fitting masks.   If they are having mental health issues, did you get them a therapist and make changes in your home to fix the problems at home?  Sounds like there is much more to this and empathy toward others and teaching kids how to live in a community isn't a priority.

Ever think of kids like mine who have had to continue in virtual school because of kids like yours and families like yours?  Perhaps your kids would have been healthier if as a community those who could, stayed home sick and everyone masked.  I wish I could live in a self-centered world like you but I don't have your privilege.

Please get your kid's mental health treatment given their challenges.  Unmasking isn't going to fix those things.  And, get the younger child a full neuropsych as sensory issues are  not a diagnosis.  [/quote]

What unicorn diagnosis does your child have that is significant enough to require mandating an entire classroom of children and a teacher to wear a mask all day, every day, yet isn’t so limiting to preclude your child from being in class with 25 some odd kids of variable masking adherence who probably spent their weekend out at play place birthday parties and sleepovers and traveling?[/quote]

My kids are too old for play dates but no, we stopped traveling, no sleep overs or going into others homes.  It’s not the child but a parent.  Children has aready lost one parent, isn’t that enough?   Are you going to take the kids if another parent dies?

My kids mask due to choice.  My kids go to virtual school by choice.  Unlike you, they get it.  They can go in person  time they want.  But, they know people like you will send their sick kids to school and not think twice and the, bringing home something can cause serious issues in our home.  [/quote]

Once again for people who do not understand how illness works. Often peak contagiousness is *before* symptoms occur and many lingering symptoms are not contagious. People can do their best not to send a sick kid to school … and illness will still spread. Schools will never be a sterile environment. You’re living in la la land. And yeah, my kids are doing indoor play dates, sleepovers, air travel, play places, etc. We’ve accepted the risk of illness because that is just life. You can (and probably should) opt out of things like this with a medically fragile kid. But if you send your child to school, you should know that like 95% of families are back to all this normal stuff. Are you suggesting that kids should now also be giving up activities outside of school that could bring germs into a classroom? Like should the entire world now revolve around your family because a sick kid* might end up at school.

*By sick I mean pre-symptoms, asymptomatic, or they could come down with symptoms mid-day they didn’t have when they left for school. Of course it’s selfish to send a fever-ish, clearly sick child to school. But viruses spread even without parents sending their blatantly sick kid to school. [/quote]

A little common sense goes a long way.  It is very selfish to send your sick child to school but you simply don't care.  Yes, we keep our sick kids home.  We don't send our kids to in person school because of the risk they may bring something home from your family to another family member.  Things are surging right now.  The risks you take impact others.  The issue isn't a medically fragile child, but another family member.  You seem to forget kids don't live along and live in a home with others.[/quote]

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