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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, masks make it pretty much impossible for teachers to hear what my DS says at school. He's in PK and soft spoken and with a mask it's just impossible. Sometimes they'll pick up words here and there but mostly they hear nothing. He seems to understand the teachers well enough.

I am just thinking about what this means for him long term. I don't know what to do. All PKs here are required to wear masks, even when the kids are outside. The earliest kids this age will be eligible for a vaccine is probably January and that's very optimistic. Plus not everyone is going to vaccinate kids this young.

I feel desperate about this. I don't love wearing a mask but it also isn't that bad -- it makes some social stuff hard but it's not the end of the world. I'm trying to decide what it means for a child at age 3 or 4 to go a year or more without being able to properly communicate with his teachers. I'm trying to think of what it might mean for him and these other kids psychologically. I don't think they can understand each other either except when shouting at each other on the playground.

This is one of those things that makes me start exploring moving somewhere else so our kid could go to school without a mask, even if it meant being in a place that would be a lot less comfortable for us politically. Or look into homeschool options -- if I went part-time at work and I found a homeschooling collective and people were okay with kids being unmasked when gathering for outdoor activities, at least, maybe I could give him a more normal life.

I hate when people say "kids don't mind masks! stop complaining!" My kid doesn't mind his mask. He's good about wearing it (doesn't pull it down off his nose even) and never complains about it. But no one at school can understand what he's saying. How is this okay?[/quote]

This is so sad. I hope this area comes to its senses sooner rather than later.  I have mild hearing loss and it is really hard to hear people wearing masks, so I get where you are coming from.[/quote]

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