Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

New teacher every month? This is the private school forum... are you lost?

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.

You say that as if you haven't read any news about the availability of skilled teachers.

They don’t want skilled teachers, they want babysitters who won’t question their judgement.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.

It creates unnecessary fear in young children about dying from COVID.

No, it teaches young kids the importance of caring about others and helping to protect themselves and others. Kids have died of Covid. It’s rare but it happens.

My kids cared about others before masks. Why do you need masks to teach your kids morals?

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.

You say that as if you haven't read any news about the availability of skilled teachers.

Anonymous wrote:I hope my kids have a normal year including a teacher who doesn’t mask. Norway actually banned preschool teachers from masking. The whole mask thing is out of control. It’s f**king paper with gaps on the side and at the nose. There is a reason actual medical workers in Covid wards wore closed respirators. They just aren’t that effective and they impede learning, socialization and provide a far less enriching experience. I hate the masks and how they’ve become a security blanket for some. You haven’t gotten Covid because of luck. Not the stupid masks. It’s a free country, sort of, but it’s sh**y to hide 70% of your face from people trying to learn from you.

I’m a private school teacher and I will absolutely be wearing a mask in the fall. I suspect most of my students won’t, and that’s absolutely fine with me. I don’t care and I’ll respect everybody’s choices. Therefore, it seems I’m giving you far more respect than you are willing to give me.

I have an immunocompromised family member and her health is more important to me than whether or not students can see my mouth. I am also aware that an illness keeps me out of my classroom. I teach AP classes and I can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week to quarantine. Wearing a mask is also out of respect to my students, who need me in front of them.

Know that I don’t remotely care if you judge me.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.

LOL, no. I will happily wait to be fired for wearing my mask. I will not only be paid for my unused leave but I will be able to collect unemployment. Sounds like a win/win situation for me!

Awesome attitude, what school and grade are you at again?

You would be surprised, sweetie!

Anonymous wrote:What I've learned from this thread is that the people who choose not to mask and want others to respect their choice refuse to do the same for people who choose to mask.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard about mask optional for the fall at their schools? I am hoping for an announcement of mask optional as we would like to continue to wear our masks. Just wondering! We have not yet heard from our schools.

That’s bizarre. We have friends and family all over and over one expects teachers to be teaching with masks on. Maybe if they’re I’ll, like in courteous Asian countries, but not as a precaution.

I’d like our money back and we’ll stay in Montessori school, which was open just fine the whole last 2.5 years and stopped the masking.
They’ve had no issues and it matters a ton for childhood development, attention, learning and social skills. Any school that neglects to acknowledge that or says otherwise should allow families an out with their tuition refunded.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Again, pls flag yourself to your school and community and country as someone who plans on behaving as above. Very extreme. And detrimental to education in Pk-12. Go teach online programs or find a WFH job.

I'm a parent! Hey but you should volunteer to teach since you seem to think it requires no particular skills and is so easy to do -- just show your lips I guess and you're qualified. Good luck.

More efficacy in teaching if it’s in person and no face coverings. Nothing to argue or deflect about. And yes I’m an excellent teacher and coach, who doesn’t have children in a school where teachers are frightened and complaining and never wanted to return to school. I feel sorry for the children who has to return late or to half days or masks or silent lunches or masks as nauseum. This is truly a political phenomenon, look at the health data yourself.

True.

Masked teachers = year 3 of subpar education for k-8 children.

We have not returned our kids to in person school because of people like you. I feel sorry for your kids and the kids you teach. A good teacher can teach in masks, virtually or make what ever is the barrier work. Clearly you cannot and should not be teaching. My kids will happily mask as they are decent people. You have a lot to learn from kids still masking. No, you are not an excellent teacher or coach.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.

Talk to any education hiring manager what they found this spring trying to replace quality teachers. It's a thin, mediocre applicant pool, ESPECIALLY once the school has started, if some idiot HOS wants to fire teachers for wearing a mask.

Nice fat lawsuit too when they dismiss someone for coping with a proven medical condition. Do you think any school manager wants that grief?

Dream on. This isn't a FOX News fantasy, it's real life.

The pods home-school model worked amazing! Like a governess model for a group of 6-8 kids. No masks. Highly recommend and certainly over masked teachers in a subpar curriculum or unacademic school.

And so easy to scale up to tens of millions of school kids in the US alone! It's a miracle that EVERYBODY isn't doing it already!

Lots of fantasyland happening on this thread, LOL.

50% of the country k-12 and even MCPS is multiple grade levels below in reading and math. Quite the teaching miracle indeed. Maybe more $$$ will do the trick unlike the last 5 times money was thrown at it for creative new Common Core untested ELa and math curricula.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Common core are federal standards not a curriculum. The new math curriculum, Eureka has been used in many places. Same with benchmark.

Oh we all know the lucrative curricula bids that common core created and terrible new untested ELA and math curricula that came out of it. Tying Fed dollars to signing up for common site standards was a nice budget perk too by Obama. Eureka and envision, and Of course the home grown garbage MCPS admin out in place until their failed audit and dismal YoY test scores. Good times.

What are you rambling about? Mcps used common core in the previous curriculums. It was designed to allow kids to move and still be taught the same things in the same grade level. Eureka math is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.

It creates unnecessary fear in young children about dying from COVID.

No, it teaches young kids the importance of caring about others and helping to protect themselves and others. Kids have died of Covid. It’s rare but it happens.

You can be certain my homeroom group’s learning will emphasize caring for others, understanding that your choices effect those around you and in the community, and protecting those who are vulnerable even if it adds an extra step to your day. This includes masking.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.

It creates unnecessary fear in young children about dying from COVID.

Plus all the bullying from the self-righteous chronically masked kids regurgitating fear and hatred from their parents. Don’t talk with those kids, they’re not masked. Don’t play with that kid, they had Covid two months ago.

This was non-stop last year at one “masks optional” DC private school. No matter how many times the masked teacher said respect your option.

So your kid is afraid of people who wear masks, and of dying of covid, but you don't think anyone else should be uncomfortable around your unmasked child?

Why would an otherwise healthy thriving child be scared to die of Covid? Do you teach your kid to go around scared of people and scared of dying? Crossing the street, at the playground, in a car ride, on their bike?

I teach my kids to care about others. It’s not just about them getting sick but also us. When I get sick, it lasts for weeks not days. My kids have no issue wearing masks and will ontinue to do so for my sake and for their friends with health issues. Why is it so hard to set a good example for your kids and teach them to think about others?

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.

It creates unnecessary fear in young children about dying from COVID.

No, it teaches young kids the importance of caring about others and helping to protect themselves and others. Kids have died of Covid. It’s rare but it happens.

lol

It’s rare but it happens

Lol

Use that in your math and stats classes too for good decisioning making.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that some of you parents think teachers should be forced to go maskless is shocking.

We have a teaching shortage. You don't want talented people with options to leave.

Many of us (teachers) have health conditions that require us to continue to avoid getting COVID. I’m a teacher with an autoimmune disease marrried to a teacher with an autoimmune disease and one of our children is also medically complex. We have to keep masking.

Why don't you seek a career change or teach for a virtual education company? I am sure you can be replaced.

Talk to any education hiring manager what they found this spring trying to replace quality teachers. It's a thin, mediocre applicant pool, ESPECIALLY once the school has started, if some idiot HOS wants to fire teachers for wearing a mask.

Nice fat lawsuit too when they dismiss someone for coping with a proven medical condition. Do you think any school manager wants that grief?

Dream on. This isn't a FOX News fantasy, it's real life.

The pods home-school model worked amazing! Like a governess model for a group of 6-8 kids. No masks. Highly recommend and certainly over masked teachers in a subpar curriculum or unacademic school.

And so easy to scale up to tens of millions of school kids in the US alone! It's a miracle that EVERYBODY isn't doing it already!

Lots of fantasyland happening on this thread, LOL.

50% of the country k-12 and even MCPS is multiple grade levels below in reading and math. Quite the teaching miracle indeed. Maybe more $$$ will do the trick unlike the last 5 times money was thrown at it for creative new Common Core untested ELa and math curricula.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Common core are federal standards not a curriculum. The new math curriculum, Eureka has been used in many places. Same with benchmark.

Oh we all know the lucrative curricula bids that common core created and terrible new untested ELA and math curricula that came out of it. Tying Fed dollars to signing up for common site standards was a nice budget perk too by Obama. Eureka and envision, and Of course the home grown garbage MCPS admin out in place until their failed audit and dismal YoY test scores. Good times.

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Anonymous wrote:Covid denialism is rampant in this thread.

The new variants are extremely transmissible. Your kid having had it in June won't prevent them from getting it again (and missing more school, and playing the long covid lottery again) in September. You want a new teacher in your kid's classroom every month because you don't want them to mask? That's a bad result teachers, but also a bad result for your kids.

Wearing a mask didn't protect me kids teacher from getting covid and being out two weeks. So yes, I'd prefer them not to mask and have my kid living in fear only to be out anyway.

LOL your kid is afraid of people who wear masks? He/she is going to have a hard time for many more years then.

It creates unnecessary fear in young children about dying from COVID.

No, it teaches young kids the importance of caring about others and helping to protect themselves and others. Kids have died of Covid. It’s rare but it happens.