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Anonymous wrote:Hope kids, teachers, and parents won’t be bullied for wearing masks when masks not required. Better safe than sorry.

Hope kids, teachers, and parents won't be bullied for not wearing masks just because one or two people are afraid to get vaccinated. Better sane than stupid.

Fixed that for you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

+1

I am a HS teacher and get hot just moving around my crowded room and talking in normal conditions. I can’t imagine what a sweaty mess I will be in August with a mask on in a room with 26 17 year olds. The air conditioning can only do so much to compensate for a crowded room on a warm day.

I also know DCPS won’t do this but there should be different mask requirements for HS as compared to elementary. Either way, unless I am forced to I won’t wear a mask.

Elementary teacher here and I’m pretty sure I do more moving than you in a classroom. Get some new masks if you have that problem.

What I said was that I get really hot in normal years in the classroom and I can’t imagine how hot I will get in the fall with masks. And I forgot it’s a contest to see who moves around more. You win, good for you, I still get really hot on my feet all day.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

+1

I am a HS teacher and get hot just moving around my crowded room and talking in normal conditions. I can’t imagine what a sweaty mess I will be in August with a mask on in a room with 26 17 year olds. The air conditioning can only do so much to compensate for a crowded room on a warm day.

I also know DCPS won’t do this but there should be different mask requirements for HS as compared to elementary. Either way, unless I am forced to I won’t wear a mask.

Elementary teacher here and I’m pretty sure I do more moving than you in a classroom. Get some new masks if you have that problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

+1

I am a HS teacher and get hot just moving around my crowded room and talking in normal conditions. I can’t imagine what a sweaty mess I will be in August with a mask on in a room with 26 17 year olds. The air conditioning can only do so much to compensate for a crowded room on a warm day.

I also know DCPS won’t do this but there should be different mask requirements for HS as compared to elementary. Either way, unless I am forced to I won’t wear a mask.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

As a vaccinated high school teacher who taught most of the year in a mask, I'd much rather wear a mask all day than have to enforce mask wearing for some but not all students.

I vote for masks for everyone, until it's safe to have no one wearing them. I think that schools need to drop restrictions one at a time, wait see if numbers go up, and then drop something else. Dropping those restrictions that lead to hybrid -- usually distancing and cohorting, first makes the most sense. Once we've had 5 days of school for everyone but the small segment who choose a separate virtual school, and we've kept spread low, then we talk about dropping masks.

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can imagine different protocols for different types of schools based on the age of kids (those that can't get vaxxed versus those that can). One set of protocols for places with just age 12+, another for places with just below 12, another for places with a mix spanning age 12.

If you've got a lot of students who can't be vaccinated, more precautions seem wise (like masks), even though those kids are less likely to have serious covid. Plus if we can't trust that the teachers/staff are vaccinated, then they should be wearing masks around the can't-yet-be-vaxxed.

regardless, there is zero reason for outdoor masking for any age.

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Anonymous wrote:I do not want my fully vaccinated 17 year old to have to wear a mask in a DCPS high school. CDC says that is perfectly find. Yet somehow I still expect DCPS to screw this up.

Let's start putting the pressure on Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, head of the DC Dept of Health. I have worked with her in the past and found her to be a very rational, measured person. Here's hoping that she will respond positively to the new CDC recommendation.

Anonymous wrote:I can imagine different protocols for different types of schools based on the age of kids (those that can't get vaxxed versus those that can). One set of protocols for places with just age 12+, another for places with just below 12, another for places with a mix spanning age 12.

If you've got a lot of students who can't be vaccinated, more precautions seem wise (like masks), even though those kids are less likely to have serious covid. Plus if we can't trust that the teachers/staff are vaccinated, then they should be wearing masks around the can't-yet-be-vaxxed.

Anonymous wrote:Hope kids, teachers, and parents won’t be bullied for wearing masks when masks not required. Better safe than sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!

As a vaccinated high school teacher who taught most of the year in a mask, I'd much rather wear a mask all day than have to enforce mask wearing for some but not all students.

I vote for masks for everyone, until it's safe to have no one wearing them. I think that schools need to drop restrictions one at a time, wait see if numbers go up, and then drop something else. Dropping those restrictions that lead to hybrid -- usually distancing and cohorting, first makes the most sense. Once we've had 5 days of school for everyone but the small segment who choose a separate virtual school, and we've kept spread low, then we talk about dropping masks.

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated and my employer doesn’t require masks. I won’t be wearing one. I can’t imagine vaccinated teachers want to scream over a hot mask all day?!