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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This bothers me.  [b]I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask.[/b]  I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on.  It's been a month since school started.  I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it.  I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?  [/quote]
No you're not, you're just a selfish jerk who hates people that mask. Do you also call them "sheep"?  :roll: [/quote]

NP. I am 40 and have mild hearing loss. The pandemic was VERY hard when everyone was masked and customer service workers were behind those thick plastic partitions. I couldn’t understand a darn thing and it was frustrating for everyone involved.

So no, not everyone’s making it up and there are children with hearing issues as well. They just miss what the teacher is saying. [/quote]

Presumably OP would have mentioned if her kid has hearing loss.  It's likely the school has already accommodated kids with hearing loss, and teachers with medical issues that require a mask by not putting them together.  [/quote]

I wouldn’t assume that at all, particularly if it’s not severe enough to require a 504 or IEP. And once the kid is in the class, it’s awkward to bring it up without people calling you all of the things PP just call the original PP.

It just sucks and its not like schools were ever a low risk environment. Life is unpredictable, but that doesn't make it easier on kids. [/quote]

If a parent has a child with a hearing loss severe enough that it impacts intelligibility when the child can't see someone's mouth, and hasn't shared that with the school or sought a 504 with things like preferential seating, then that parent has failed their child.  Teachers need that information.

To say that a teacher needs to risk their health or their loved ones because schools were never low risk, when many of us learned during the pandemic that masks make a difference, is unfair.  [/quote]

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