Anonymous wrote:So at my child's high school, I imagine the kids who don't wear masks will be the two dozen or so phuck-ups, the kind you might have found in the smoking lounges 30 years ago. These are the kids who aren't college-bound, etc.

The rest will continue. The peer pressure will be to wear masks. The losers who don't will continue to be ostracized.

We sent my Kindergartener to school with a mask today, but I’ll be shocked if she wears it all day, particularly if other students don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Loudoun County is Rednck Central.

You haven't spent much time in Loudoun County in the past 10 years, have you.

DP. So true. My DD’s elementary is majority non-white, and our neighborhood is very diverse. Certainly not what I would consider “redneck central”.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a link to the actual opinion? I cannot understand the basis for this ruling from the news link.

I’m sure it hasn’t been written yet and won’t be probably for months. It’s too controversial.

Also, as I mention on here all the time, if you move to Eastern Loudoun (Sterling, Ashburn, Leesburg east of 15) it feels exactly like Fairfax County (where we moved from.)

The fringe view are all in the far western part of the county.

I work in an eastern Loudoun ES. I've seen maybe 3 kids without masks in the entire school. And no teachers. Business as usual here, thank goodness.

I'm glad. Most of the Kindergarteners in my DD's class can't seem to wear their masks properly anyways. Also, they eat snack together, constantly drinking water bottles and lunch together too. No outbreaks or quarantines in her class. From discussions with other parents, it seems everyone vaccinated their Kindergartners on up too.

So at my child's high school, I imagine the kids who don't wear masks will be the two dozen or so phuck-ups, the kind you might have found in the smoking lounges 30 years ago. These are the kids who aren't college-bound, etc.

The rest will continue. The peer pressure will be to wear masks. The losers who don't will continue to be ostracized.

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Anonymous wrote:I have mixed feelings about the necessity of masks in school at this point, however, I wish there was a better way to go about the change than receiving an email and Wayde phone call at nearly 10 p.m. last night. No time to talk to the kids about the change and what to expect, and I feel bad for the teachers who are left to track and enforce in their classrooms.

I could also do without a lot of the gloating comments I've seen on social media, hoping the "branch covidians" are crying, wishing ill upon the school board, etc. You can't convince me that for MOST people who wanted the mask mandate lifted, it's less about the kids and more about feeling some sense of vengeance, power, control, etc.

What is there to track and enforce? Masks are optional, neither banned nor required.

Yes - it's the parents' choice. But at least at our school, teachers have reached out to confirm that choice. Maybe that's more than they need to take on, but for families who prefer their child to keep wearing a mask (for WHATEVER reason, doesn't really matter) they also deserve an environment where that choice is acceptable and there are appropriate reminders still in place.

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Anonymous wrote:Loudoun really is determined to rejoin the backwater parts of the state.

+1

+ a million

Anonymous wrote:I have mixed feelings about the necessity of masks in school at this point, however, I wish there was a better way to go about the change than receiving an email and Wayde phone call at nearly 10 p.m. last night. No time to talk to the kids about the change and what to expect, and I feel bad for the teachers who are left to track and enforce in their classrooms.

I could also do without a lot of the gloating comments I've seen on social media, hoping the "branch covidians" are crying, wishing ill upon the school board, etc. You can't convince me that for MOST people who wanted the mask mandate lifted, it's less about the kids and more about feeling some sense of vengeance, power, control, etc.

What is there to track and enforce? Masks are optional, neither banned nor required.

I have mixed feelings about the necessity of masks in school at this point, however, I wish there was a better way to go about the change than receiving an email and Wayde phone call at nearly 10 p.m. last night. No time to talk to the kids about the change and what to expect, and I feel bad for the teachers who are left to track and enforce in their classrooms.

I could also do without a lot of the gloating comments I've seen on social media, hoping the "branch covidians" are crying, wishing ill upon the school board, etc. You can't convince me that for MOST people who wanted the mask mandate lifted, it's less about the kids and more about feeling some sense of vengeance, power, control, etc.

Anyone have a link to the actual opinion? I cannot understand the basis for this ruling from the news link.

Remember when just sending kids to school was a harbinger of the apocalypse? And nothing happened?

Good times, good times.

Anonymous wrote:My little 6 years old is jumping up and down right now in excitement to not have to wear the mask! So happy for her. She just told me that it is hard breathing in the mask. Never told me that before. Today is a win for science!

You coached her well.

Anonymous wrote:Statement from Ziegler just confirmed tomorrow masks will be optional!!

The thing that bothers me about the ruling is it also orders the any discipline meted out to students who disobeyed to be expunged. That's a terrible precedent.

I would like, however, to thank RWNJs for giving the rest of us a template in defiance for when you try to impose your other insane ideas, particularly with respect to curricula.