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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have had students with cancer before (they are all in remission!). They switched to homebound instruction during much of their chemotherapy, and when they were medically cleared to return to school, they wore masks, but nothing was suggested about other students wearing masks. I can't see it being required in such situations--if a student is ill enough to need everyone around them to be masked, then they are too ill to take a chance on other students not complying.[/quote]

This is the answer, an in actuality families with truly immunocompromised kids will choose this option. The only parents who will try to force all their kids’ classmates to mask are the ones who get annoyed by routine illnesses and think their kid is entitled to never have a runny nose.

I saw a post about masking today in AEM in which someone pointed out our local COVID rates are low, [b]but someone actually responded that it’s also about flu, RSV, and other viruses[/b].

Those of us who claimed last winter that the pro mask mandate people would try to keep us masking for non-COVID illnesses were told we were crazy, yet here we are. I knew there would be a nutty contingent who want masking every year because they don’t want a cold. [/quote]

In as much defense as I can sympathetically offer, I think the bottom line point was really about the # of kids with all of these things stressing the hospitals again like COVID did.  Not necessarily about individual at-risk kids catching the flu or developing RSV, etc.

Still, to the extent I'm familiar with the new regulation, I'm ok with it because it theoretically should be a very rare exception that will be able to demonstrate that requiring everyone in their kids' classes (and lunch and specials and are we going to extend to extra-curriculars?) to mask is actually a necessary and reasonable accommodation to be made. I would hope (because I never presume or trust APS to do the right and reasonable thing) that APS would, first of all, require medical documentation and justification for a masked environment for the child; and, second of all, make a simple request for people to please wear a mask if they are able in consideration of the child but realize that beyond that simple request would be "UNreasonable accommodation."[/quote]

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