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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and have been in total shock that we went straight from 100% masks required to 100% masks optional. No provisions for exposure, symptoms, etc, and now we are surprised that cases are going up? I've literally had classes full of coughing kids, no masks, and kids missing because they have Covid, kids leaving midday because their test came back positive, kids telling me cheerfully that they "had Covid yesterday but they are okay now" -- still coughing, still no mask. We couldn't even ask them to put one on.

There has to be a middle ground here!!!

I think the 10-day close contact rule is a step in the right direction. Though I think connecting it to symptoms -- if you're coughing, and it's not a known, chronic condition, mask up -- would make even more sense...[/quote]

Then wear a mask if you’re worried. One-way masking works. And agreed that this policy is absurd. The kids could, in theory, have to be masked every week if everyone is deemed a close contact and there’s at least one case in the class each week, which effectively reinstitutes mandatory masking without calling it that. [/quote]

Exactly. Parents should opt out of asymptomatic testing. Just test your kid at home if they have symptoms.[/quote]

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