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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a matter of three months, we as a society have become totally myopic when it comes to COVID. COVID now trumps all other issues, including education (permanent learning losses, especially for disadvantaged kids), the economy (devastated small businesses, hotels, airlines, mass layoffs, etc.); mental health (suicide, addiction); health other than COVID (skipped vaccinations, tests, well visits, operations), and happiness. This shift in mindset happened extremely quickly, and all of those who dared question it--stating the perhaps tradeoffs between health and these other issues might at least be considered--were shamed. Now, thousands of parents are realizing that their children are being permanently damaged by a lockdown of increasingly dubious value, and thankfully these parents are starting to slowly whisper "no, not this Fall." And you would think that these parents are monsters by the reactions of some of the truly virtuous woke posters on this board. I truly hope for the future of our society that we as parents start to find our voice and demand that our children receive a quality, in-person education this fall. And for the teacher's unions, County officials, Principals, and various others who will aggressively push back by citing the risks, let us remind them that, yes, in fact, they work for us, the taxpayers, and we demand that they do their jobs and figure it out. Of course there are risks. There are *always* risks. What we do know is that we now have a functioning contact tracing infrastructure, plenty of tests, plenty of PPE, and *six months* of time from March to September to figure this out. MoCo simply must figure out an in-person schooling approach; if they punt and go to another semester of Zoom wasted time, I can think of another organization that should be defunded.[/quote]

Honest question. Do we have enough high quality masks for teachers to use if there is a full time return to school?[/quote]

This is my question. I already had to supply my classroom with hand sanitizer and bleach wipes OOP. I just don’t believe I will be given good masks. Maybe one janky cloth mask that I’m supposed to hand wash nightly and replace the elastic when it wears out.[/quote]

Don’t you have your own masks at this point? I own three excellent cloth masks that I can just throw in with my laundry. Not saying this school district shouldn’t be supplying them to staff, but their inability to do so cannot possibly be an excuse for teachers not to return to work. It’s like a piece of clothing that you need outside of work as well.[/quote]

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