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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]You can also see APE’s advocacy page, where they specifically advocate for adequate PPE (for which they’ve apparently been fundraising), and for infrastructure improvements to ensure schools are safe environments.  I hadn’t paid much attention to APE before this, but I’m actually really impressed by their approach to this.

http://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/arlington-parents-for-education/our-advocacy/[/quote]

What I don't see is significant:  I don't see concern about enforcement for masks on kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance, and I also don't see concern about enforcement for social distancing by kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance.  When I start to see and hear more about what behaviors for kids are not acceptable, what the enforcement practices will be, and what the consequences will be for noncompliance, then I will start to give a hoot about APE.  Until then they can take a hike.[/quote]

There go those goalposts...

APE also doesn’t advocate for better federal coordination of vaccine distribution, but that doesn’t mean they oppose it. Try to remember that policy setting, particularly at the level of detail you’re addressing, is set by APS and not APE.[/quote]

That isn't moving the goalposts.  That is pointing out that the APE folks are two-faced.  They want everyone else to do the work but they aren't going to do it with their kids.  Don't you wonder what their kids are like in school?

I would bet the kids of APE parents are exactly the types of kids who will walk around with their masks on backwards ("What?  I AM WEARING MY MASK...backwards! &lt;hehaw hehaw&gt;") and then their parents will go ballistic if the school reprimands the kids.[/quote]

Based on the handful of APE members (and their kids) that I do know, you could not be more wrong.  But the next time my kids are riding scooters in the cul-de-sac with theirs and she is [b]harping on all of the kids[/b] to make sure their masks are over their noses, I’ll show her this post and we’ll both have a good laugh.[/quote]

Ha!  You're actually making the PP's point for her.  In my neighborhood our kids run out the door with their masks on, covering their noses, and those masks stay firmly on until the kids run back in the door.  What you're saying is that [i]this APE member has to keep reminding her kids, aka your HARPING, so that they do what they're supposed to do[/i].  Yeah, I definitely don't want her kids (or your kids) anywhere near my kids either.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

I wondered if anyone else read that the same way![/quote]
I suppose if you do nothing but sit on your couch all day, you wouldn’t appreciate that when kids run around, their masks can slip out of place.  Making sure early elementary kids periodically check that their masks are still on properly is just good parenting.[/quote]

My job as a parent is to make sure I'm buying and providing appropriate clothing for my kids, and that includes buying masks made for little faces that stay in place.  If the mask is made correctly and sized appropriately then it will stay in place no matter what.  I think my kids could walk through a windstorm and their masks will stay in place.

If the masks your kids wear are not staying in place then there is something wrong with you and the way your kids are wearing their masks.

Be a better parent.  I challenge you to do it.[/quote]

Clearly you and your kids aren’t very athletic.  Or you’re more careless with your masks than you think you are.[/quote]

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