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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t see why we would get rid of masks during a huge surge and increase the chance of children being quarantined? Nobody wants to wear masks— get through the next 6 weeks or so and then make it mask optional. [/quote]

There is zero scientific consensus that masks do anything to stop or slow the spread of COVID; there’s just some cherry-picked politically-motivated garbage that even The Atlantic had debunked:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

Our children have been masked long enough. This is stupid. And I am concerned about the mental health and long-term socialization effects of this nearly two years of hiding our faces behind pointless cloth rags. Enough already. Let these kids live life normally; they are not at risk.[/quote]

Why are you making your kid wear a cloth rag? Buy a decent mask. [/quote]

Who is the hillbilly “cloth rag” poster who pops up on every thread? [/quote]

Look for the kids breathing fresh air unobstructed, with smiles on their unmasked faces that you’ll see beaming from across the room. I’m the parent of those kids.

Now put in your mask and your tinfoil hat and grumble about it. [/quote]

[b]I hope you will as supportive of your school and teachers if your school has to go remote because of staffing issues. [/quote][/b]

This will happen.

In our K-8, almost every class has a staff member's kid in it, and due to the lack of subs, many staff members are being asked to cover an hour here or there, or spend the afternoon with two classes in a common area (indoors).

As their kids get sick from the child next to them, more adults have to stay home either to quarantine or take care of them. Usually the teacher is the one making the lower salary and while parents have volunteered to come in, few are compliant with the child safety policies (and the school does not ask if parents are vaccinated, which is fine, but makes the solution of parents stepping in a non-starter.)

Many families hate remote so much that they'd rather have 40 kids in the gym, playing kickball all afternoon, and pay tuition to do it, than put safety first.

The teachers are not just being asked to make a big sacrifice here, they are being asked to put their loved ones in a more vulnerable position, so when people say, "No online school or else" or "I have the freedom to make this choice for my child," they are subtly chanting that their wishes are much more important than the members of the community that have already given up so much.

The secret anchor that keeps teachers in Catholic school is that they love their own families enough to make this work. Now they are not allowed to have a safe workplace and they have to break their contract if they want to transfer out or protect their own families.

Be prepared for less and less qualified staff members to be backfilling those spots. This EO just devalued what we invested in.

But, freedom?[/quote]

Put all the political issues aside.

Do you truly believe that masks make a difference? I mean honestly?

Read any book on past pandemics and they all say the same thing---masks did not make a difference in transmission of a virus. Lots of books on the 1928 flu if you are interested.

How many friends/family do you personally know that were infected while wearing a mask?

If you would like an anecdote we just moved to a mask-optional school in a different state. Most kids don't wear a mask. Our numbers are not any different than VA. [/quote]

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