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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.[/quote]

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks.  It’s a waste of resources.  And parents must still mask up outdoors.  Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.[/quote]

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?[/quote]

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask.  There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.  [/quote]

I pick up and drop off at ITDS.  There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other.  More and more parents are dropping the nonsense. [/quote]

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point[/quote]

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me. [/quote]

I find this view interesting. So you want to teach your kids to blindly follow rules that make absolutely no sense scientifically according to the actual health officials? I don’t under this from a parenting perspective but I want my kids to be rational and understand when “authorities” are wrong. As they often are…[/quote]

Yes, I do.  That's part of living in a civil society.  We're not "blindly" following the rules.  We're choosing to follow them for various reasons that make sense to us.  Not everything is about science, some of it is about social relationships and the social contract.  We all sometimes follow rules that we don't think are scientifically sensible and that some actual heath officials dislike.  Probably some rules that you think are super important and well-founded, other people think are stupid.  I teach my kids to pick their battles and take a stand when it is truly important, and that in general they should follow the rules unless they have a compelling reason.  And I don't want every random person making their own scientific judgments.[/quote]

If you're doing a thing you know is stupid to make other people feel comfortable, and they're doing a thing they know is stupid to make you feel comfortable, then all you have is a bunch of people doing something they know is stupid and isn't actually making anyone feel comfortable. [/quote]

I don't think it's stupid.  I think it doesn't make a difference but is not harmful (talking about masks at pickup and dropoff) and is not overly burdensome.  So it's worth it for the sake of other people's comfort and the spirit of compromise.  And the rule that the school makes the rules and doesn't change them without deliberation seems like a good one.

Science tells us all kinds of crazy things that schools don't follow, btw.  Are you going to get wound up about all of them?[/quote]

I don't get wound up about this because I just don't do it. But you're missing that the dynamic you're creating when you condescendingly assume that other parents are scientifically illiterate and you mask for their comfort is that they're doing that for you, too. And then the school looks at you and also assumes that your masking actually says something about your own comfort levels. A[/quote]

Sorry but some people really do think it matters.  Read the IFA listserv and you'll hear from them.  I think it's silly, but they definitely exist.

[b]What about all the other science stuff related to education? [/b] Are you on your high horse about each and every school policy choice that doesn't quite match?  Or just this one?[/quote]

Can you list some? Masking outside is so embarrassing and outside mainstream norm for its scientific illiteracy, but I would be interested in hearing others.

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Well, one example would be their use of the Lucy Calkins reading curriculum until even the person who created it acknowledged that it wasn't good and had to change.  Seems like a much bigger deal than wanting adults to wear masks for a few minutes.  But if every parent instructed their child not to comply with reading lessons because they disagreed with the choice of curriculum, that would be unworkable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/us/reading-phonics.html

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