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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know some parents are advocating for school walkouts on another thread, but  parents (particularly of middle school and high school students) should just email their school principals to inform them that going forward, their children will not be masking in school, in compliance with CDC recommendations and the mayor's own directive for much higher-risk adults. Then tell your kids to take off their masks. I actually have consulted a lawyer and parents would have a decent case against a school system for arbitrary and capricious behavior here, given that higher risk populations are now allowed indoors without masks, that transmission rates are low and vaccination rates high, and that this is a medical intervention with documented ill side-effects for children's education.

[b]Don't send them with a mask. If the school insists, and gives them one, have your kid (if he or she is comfortable engaging in legit and necessary civil disobedience) to put the mask on but pull it below their face. We need resistance, otherwise the minority of scaredy-cat forever COVID people in DC will keep our kids masked in perpetuity.[/b]

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All this does is put teachers, who have no say over the policies, in a position where they will either have to damage a relationship with an adolescent, potentially face pushback from other students who still want masks, or face discipline from their superiors for not enforcing DC policies. Not a very kind or respectful plan[/quote]

What's not "kind" or "respectful" is ignoring scientific guidance to cater to fear mongering. It's teaching children that they can be sacrificed for what is now clearly political pandering to COVID anxiety. It's disgusting. Given how little respect DCPS has for parents, children, or now the advice of the CDC, and how unbelievably disrespectful it was to keep schools closed for more than a year, this seems like a reasonable thing for teachers and administrators to have to deal with. As for students who still want to mask, no one is stopping them from wearing one! Just don't make the vast majority of low risk vaccinated kids have to wear a mask any longer[/quote]

DP. Oh, I completely agree. I still won't do this to my kid and their individual teachers. I'll tell the principal I want the masks to go, but I'm not creating a confrontation for kids and teachers to fight out in the classroom.[/quote]

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