The counties won't lift their mask mandates, dummy OP.

PP’s are mixing up 2 things.

1. You are a close contact if you exposure was unmasked

2. And you don’t have to quarantine if fully vaccinated/Boosted if over 17.

Both things are true. But unmasking will throw the unvaccinated staff and students into many more quarantines.

On CDC’s website:

IF YOU
Were exposed to COVID-19 and are up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccinations
No quarantine
You do not need to stay home unless you develop symptoms.

Get tested
Even if you don’t develop symptoms, get tested at least 5 days after you last had close contact with someone with COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/quarantine-isolation.html

Nor true. You are not a close contact even when unmasked, if you have been fully vaccinated. Per the CDC, you do not need to quarantine after exposure if you have been fully vaccinated and boosted.

Anonymous wrote:Students and teachers do not have to miss school or quarantine unless they are actually sick with Covid and report to school. A child or teacher who is vaccinated does not have to quarantine after close contact.

Definition of close contact includes that they are masked. If your kid is unmasked and my kid tests positive, vaccinated or not yours will be quarantined.

Anonymous wrote:For the elementary schools, the parents that will be the first to opt out of their children to wear masks are the same one who will not test their children. At least the loudest people complaining at my school about masks are the parents who refuse to get vaccinated themselves. This is my issue with the opt out.

This. They are also the ones dining out, traveling, and visiting unvaxed family. It’s self selecting.

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Anonymous wrote:You put your student into a classroom with 27 other students, two of whom are wearing masks. The teacher isn't wearing a mask.

What are the chances your student keeps the mask on?

Never underestimate the power of peer pressure. Other students don't have to say anything, either. Students want to fit in to the scene and not look awkward. A tale as old as time.

Sorry. There aren't that many anti-mask nut jobs in Northern VA.

You'd be surprised.

I’m not anti mask but I am a teacher and do not think they are effective. Come spend a day in my high school. Come spend an hour. I will take the mask off the second it is allowed and never teach with one again. I’m not anti mask and don’t care if you wear one. I had covid and was vaccinated and boostered. So have many of my students. I don’t discuss with them but they constantly say they don’t feel like they need to wear one anymore. I remind them it is the school rule and they need to put it on. Silently, I agree with them as do many of my colleagues.

+1000
I hate wearing a mask when teaching. I've had Covid, I'm vaccinated. I'm done.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Because I want to keep schools open.

+100

For the elementary schools, the parents that will be the first to opt out of their children to wear masks are the same one who will not test their children. At least the loudest people complaining at my school about masks are the parents who refuse to get vaccinated themselves. This is my issue with the opt out.

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

I feel the opposite way. I don’t see how their poorly worn masks are doing anything and hear how schools have been open without masks throughout the pandemic. I will enforce whatever rules my district, FCCPS sets. I am concerned they want to mask forever and will keep the mask mandate next year too. If that’s the case I will go to any district nearby that doesn’t require them.

I’m in FCCPS and think a lot of people here want to mask forever. Please stay and be a reasonable voice! My kids will keep masking because it makes them feel comfortable and they’re very aware of the social blow-back they’d get if they unmasked. I’ll leave it up to them to decide if/when they stop wearing masks once it’s no longer mandated.

A lot there do want to mask forever. While I would love to be a reasonable voice, I will never speak up because that would not be well received by those making the highest decisions. The mask forever and push on vaccinations is a turn off for many. I am fully vaccinated and boosted but do not like the constant pressure on parents to vaccinate and booster their children. I think it should be a personal decision and find it overreaching and upsetting. I can only say that on an anonymous forum. I believe in vaccines but think it’s up to parents to decide for their own children and don’t like the constant announcements, emails and tweets.

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Anonymous wrote:You put your student into a classroom with 27 other students, two of whom are wearing masks. The teacher isn't wearing a mask.

What are the chances your student keeps the mask on?

Never underestimate the power of peer pressure. Other students don't have to say anything, either. Students want to fit in to the scene and not look awkward. A tale as old as time.

Sorry. There aren't that many anti-mask nut jobs in Northern VA.

You'd be surprised.

I’m not anti mask but I am a teacher and do not think they are effective. Come spend a day in my high school. Come spend an hour. I will take the mask off the second it is allowed and never teach with one again. I’m not anti mask and don’t care if you wear one. I had covid and was vaccinated and boostered. So have many of my students. I don’t discuss with them but they constantly say they don’t feel like they need to wear one anymore. I remind them it is the school rule and they need to put it on. Silently, I agree with them as do many of my colleagues.

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

I feel the opposite way. I don’t see how their poorly worn masks are doing anything and hear how schools have been open without masks throughout the pandemic. I will enforce whatever rules my district, FCCPS sets. I am concerned they want to mask forever and will keep the mask mandate next year too. If that’s the case I will go to any district nearby that doesn’t require them.

I’m in FCCPS and think a lot of people here want to mask forever. Please stay and be a reasonable voice! My kids will keep masking because it makes them feel comfortable and they’re very aware of the social blow-back they’d get if they unmasked. I’ll leave it up to them to decide if/when they stop wearing masks once it’s no longer mandated.

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Anonymous wrote:You put your student into a classroom with 27 other students, two of whom are wearing masks. The teacher isn't wearing a mask.

What are the chances your student keeps the mask on?

Never underestimate the power of peer pressure. Other students don't have to say anything, either. Students want to fit in to the scene and not look awkward. A tale as old as time.

Sorry. There aren't that many anti-mask nut jobs in Northern VA.

You'd be surprised.

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Anonymous wrote:No way - teacher here - this is a serious deal breaker for me. I was considering maybe we wouldnt need masks anymore last summer, but not right now when we have more cases than ever before and I have more of a chance of catching it.

So you’ll be fine with kids not wearing masks next month when the omicron wave has passed? (Genuinely curious - not being snarky.)

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Not the poster you are responding to....but no I think masks should continue for this year. Everyone wants schools open and teachers in the building this is how it happens....we act safely and with humanity.

You do understand that many, many places in this country, and all over the world, aren't enforcing mask mandates on kids and they are better off then we are here?

False.

True.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/students-masks-classrooms-britain.html
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-09-14/school-mask-mandates-by-state
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

Etc.
Etc.

None of those links support what you are saying. Did you even read them?

Like the one stating that only around 1/3 of US states are enforcing school mask mandates?

Anonymous wrote:You put your student into a classroom with 27 other students, two of whom are wearing masks. The teacher isn't wearing a mask.

What are the chances your student keeps the mask on?

Never underestimate the power of peer pressure. Other students don't have to say anything, either. Students want to fit in to the scene and not look awkward. A tale as old as time.

Sorry. There aren't that many anti-mask nut jobs in Northern VA.