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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disgusted that posters are suggesting medically fragile kids should isolate at home rather than be in the classroom with a basic level of precaution through masking by peers.[/quote]

Disgusted that you're forcing kids with autism and speech delays to mask, with consequent harms to speech and social-emotional development. [/quote]

I never said that.  Each child with a disability is entitled to accommodations and schools have to review how to best manage multiple accommodations for multiple students.  That has always been the case with accommodations in school.[/quote]

Well what I know is that no child is entitled to an accommodation just because their parent believes it is necessary. No matter what a parent believes about masking, they don't get to insist that masking is more beneficial than it actually is, or deny that it has harms to other kids. When I was facing the situation of my child having behavioral issues, I would have love to have had him moved to a smaller classroom or a co-taught classroom.  Probably that would have resolved a lot of the problems.  But that's not an accommodation available to me.  I had to work with the situation as it was -- get him to regulate in the normal classroom -- or accept that he needed a more restrictive setting. [/quote]

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