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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]It won't matter at our school. I'm convinced that even if they lift the mandate, our school admin and most teacher and families will choose to continue masking. And I'm not going to force my kid to mask, so they will also continue masking because it will be what everyone in their class is doing. The explanation will be that there are immunocompromised people around (it won't matter if these are really people with a Covid vulnerability -- there are people at our school who are convinced they are more vulnerable because they have a relative with heart disease or their thyroid is sometimes out of whack).

Since they dropped the outdoor mandate, I've seen exactly 1 unmasked teacher during pick up and zero unmasked parents. And this is outside.

It doesn't matter what DCPS does. The people at our school have convinced themselves that masking is the only way to protect themselves and others, and that we should do it until there is no more Covid at all. I just don't know what to say anymore.[/quote]

Why do you feel the need to say anything to them about their choice to mask? It doesn’t impact you.[/quote]

Clearly it does impact her if this attitude is what drives policy at her charter.[/quote]

No it doesn’t because they’re talking about a mask optional policy and ppl choosing to mask. So again what’s the issue?[/quote]

I would like my child to get more mask free time with teachers snd peers, seeing and I get acting with their whole faces. I have seen some troubling issues around socialization that I think are exacerbated by (and harder to address) due to masks. But if everyone else continues to mask, thus won’t change for me kid. Plus she will likely keep masking herself, in order to fit in.

I believe, based on the recommendations of public health experts, that it is safe to unmask at school,[b] especially with asymptomatic testing, [/b]a strict policy of keeping symptomatic kids home, and low case rates overall. It is frustrating to me that this is not enough for other members of my school community. I don’t understand the desire to continue to rely on masks, which were not effective during omicron, when we have other tools at our disposal that don’t inhibit learning and socializing.

I have no problem with people masking if they need/want to. But when 99% of my school chooses to mask, it raises the question of whether it’s the right place for us.

We are at our IB DCPS, btw. I’ve never wanted to leave for any other reason.[/quote]

Asymptomatic is just as bad as the pointless masking of children.  Why on earth should we be testing perfectly healthy children who aren’t sick?  Asymptomatic means you aren’t sick.

Schools need to move on from covid and focus on educating our children.  All of this has gotten out of hand.  [/quote]

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Schools should not act in defiance of official public health standards. They do not have the expertise or authority to act as medical directors of children’s health. Follow the CDC and move on already.[/quote]

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But with the testing you have always been able to opt out.[/quote]
But DCPS isn't even competent enough to keep a list of kids who are opted out by their parents. We opted out both our sons, yet Hardy MS still tested our oldest last week. I had to go down and make a scene at the office to make sure it won't happen again[/quote]

What a nutter. [/quote]

Is this a comment on the benefits of subjecting children to unnecessary medical tests, or one on how it's a good thing if schools can't keep track of who they're allowed to do medical tests on, or both?[/quote]

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