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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

Yep. My hearing impaired son lip reads. If it weren’t for masks people would have no idea he has hearing loss. But I realize people like the PPs don’t care about kids like ours.

Have you considered private school for deaf and hearing impaired?

You people are awful. The solution for all special needs kids is not to sequester them away with all the other special needs kids so your “normal” kid doesn’t have to interact with them. You suck.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

Special needs classrooms usually have exemptions.

Not every kid with autism is in a special needs classroom, or needs to be. But thanks for your insightful, exclusionary comment.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

Special needs classrooms usually have exemptions.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

Yep. My hearing impaired son lip reads. If it weren’t for masks people would have no idea he has hearing loss. But I realize people like the PPs don’t care about kids like ours.

Have you considered private school for deaf and hearing impaired?

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

oh hey charter-hater. You know it's not that easy. Kids have connections, needs, etc. At least make some effort to engage in nuanced thought.

Then I guess you have to rank how important it is to not wear a mask vs connections, needs etc.

You can also try to pressure the school to follow the experts. I don't know why charter-hater believes that we all just have to take whatever. I'm pretty sure charter-hater isn't perfectly content with their DCPS and attempts to get the principal to make different decisions at times.

But yes, in the long term, we won't be staying at the school for this reason (the anti-science, anti-expert bent). It's fine for the younger ages but I don't trust the education at older grades.

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

oh hey charter-hater. You know it's not that easy. Kids have connections, needs, etc. At least make some effort to engage in nuanced thought.

Then I guess you have to rank how important it is to not wear a mask vs connections, needs etc.

Sure, and if they decided to go in a fringe direction on some other matter of science and public policy, we would also rank that vs. other criteria. But that still wouldn't make it ok. And again, they didn't actually tell us "hey by the way, we don't plan on treating CDC and DOH guidance as binding" when we could have taken that into account when making lottery choices. In fact, what we were told all year was "we're being required to do this", and I got no answer when I asked if that was actually the reason or if they planned on having a separate process when mask mandates were lifted.

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

oh hey charter-hater. You know it's not that easy. Kids have connections, needs, etc. At least make some effort to engage in nuanced thought.

Then I guess you have to rank how important it is to not wear a mask vs connections, needs etc.

Yep, one of many factors.

The anti-science / anti-expert mentality is a big factor as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

Yep. My hearing impaired son lip reads. If it weren’t for masks people would have no idea he has hearing loss. But I realize people like the PPs don’t care about kids like ours.

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

oh hey charter-hater. You know it's not that easy. Kids have connections, needs, etc. At least make some effort to engage in nuanced thought.

Then I guess you have to rank how important it is to not wear a mask vs connections, needs etc.

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

oh hey charter-hater. You know it's not that easy. Kids have connections, needs, etc. At least make some effort to engage in nuanced thought.

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Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

It would have been great if they'd come up with an actual policy for this before the lottery. Even for next year, I have no idea whether my school is going to follow public health guidance or not. This is a terrible position to put parents in. And for parents who want masking, it's not any better.

Anonymous wrote:As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

School choice. Choose a new school. Problem solved.

As noted in this thread above, there are many charters that are still requiring indoor masking. The reflect something like a third to a half of all school children in DC.

I personally don't care what others decide about masking, I just would like the choice, like DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

Maybe a small minority in DC. The very vast majority of the country doesn't mask kids in schools anymore.

Also, not a small minority in all parts of DC. Our DCPS is 80+% unmasked. It's also highly vaccinated. Parts of the DC population seem to prefer masking over vaccines, which betrays a high level of misinformation about what actually has a significant impact in terms of lowering Covid risk.

My DCPS school is over 75/80% masked. This is WOTP. So I’m not sure there is the misinformation problem.

Anyone ignorant enough to wear a cloth mask has to be assume to be ignorant enough to not get vaccinated.

I don’t see anyone in cloth masks. They are all in KF94 and KN95. Also a highly vaccinated school.

I don’t know why you are so concerned about other peoples choices. I guess it burns your eyes to see it

NP. Every kid that's masked is a kid whose social cues are more difficult to decipher for my autistic kid. So yeah, I privately wish more kids would unmask. Nothing to do with my eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I am neutral on masking at this point but this thread reflects a small minority of parents, from what I can see in real life. I teach in a DCPS Title I school with 100% AA population and I estimate 75% of kids are still masking. Parents mask at drop off/pick up, too. And my children go to another DCPS that’s not Title I and a large percentage are still masking there. I don’t have a dog in this fight but this thread is not where the majority of parents are, from what I can tell.

94 percent of school districts in America don't require masks for kids. If that was causing a problem, do you think maybe we would have heard about it by now? People who think kids still need to mask should explain when they expect masks to no longer be necessary. They should also explain why they know more than the CDC and the Department of Health both of which say masks are unnecessary.

I’m firmly in thr mask optional camp. But I don’t think anyone owes you an explanation for why they continue to choose masking for themselves and their children. As long as they aren’t trying to require masks for your child, then their choice does not effect you.

The school leaders that are REQUIRING indoor masking certainly do owe us an explanation as to why they are forcing OUR children to mask, against CDC and DC Health guidance.