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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Damn, some of you are grasping at straws to find a way to punish the kids who end up not wearing masks.

Not surprised, I guess.[/quote]

I don’t have strong feelings about masking one way or the other.  I also don’t think anyone is trying to penalize going maskless, they’re just suggesting that we adjust other mitigation measures to account for the mitigation of masking dropping out.  If the reason spacing requirements were reduced is because masking was in place, it is reasonable to revisit distancing requirements when students are unmasked.  The same goes for the mechanics of determining if someone is a close contact or whether a student needs to quarantine.  Going maskless is an assumption of risk and potentially an imposition of risk on others.  The law now permits that step, but that doesn’t mean school districts are required to pretend it doesn’t change things and it doesn’t bar them from using permissible mitigation strategies to rebalance the risk of spread in the classroom.[/quote]

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