As an elementary teacher with a child in Hospice care, I wear a mask. This post is infuriating to me. Who is anyone to tell someone else what is appropriate for their own personal health or prioritizing the health of their family over your being uncomfortable by it? Do you know how many students show up to school on a daily basis sick. Parents can care less about their kid getting everyone else sick and you are over here mad at the teacher for wearing a mask while teaching. It's time for you to reflect on your privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Thankfully our principal would (respectfully) tell you to pound sand if you complained about this. She is far more worried about a teacher quitting than a ridiculous parent being annoyed.

Great principal. Original poster is unhinged. They seriously need to get a life.

Seems like the key piece of information that's missing her is why the teacher is wearing a mask. Maybe the teacher has a good reason. Maybe not. A lot of judgment here from people who don't actually know boo.

Washingtonians were pretty religious about wearing masks during the pandemic. Did it make any difference? I still got covid many times as did everyone I know, though we were good on masks.

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully our principal would (respectfully) tell you to pound sand if you complained about this. She is far more worried about a teacher quitting than a ridiculous parent being annoyed.

Great principal. Original poster is unhinged. They seriously need to get a life.

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Anonymous wrote:This bothers me. I am someone who has trouble understanding people talk when they wear a mask. I can't imagine listening to my teacher talk for hours a day with a mask on. It's been a month since school started. I was hoping it was temporary but she's still wearing it. I'm a total jerk if I say something and nothing would change, but I can't be the only one out there who would be bothered by this?

I used to teach fitness classes and had several clients continue to wear masks after getting vaccinated to protect themselves as cancer survivors, or to do the same for someone in their home who was a cancer survivor. This made sense to me.

This made sense back in 2021, perhaps.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be disappointed but never say anything and I can concede she has a right to do it.

Personally I think the best way to prevent illness is not masking but good physical hygiene and eating well and getting exercise. But I can't prescribe that for other people.

I would probably choose not to send my kid to a school where *everyone* masked. Because I lived through that during Covid and I know it was hard for my kid. It's just not an ideal learning environment.

But it sounds like this is one teacher (who yes may have a very good reason to do it) and not the whole school. I'd acknowledge to myself that it's not the best but then get over it and move on.

Eating well doesn’t stop the parainfluenza virus from entering my nasal cavity when your kid sneezes right in my face.

2nd graders don't do that (at least most don't). You're thinking of preschoolers. Generally 2nd grade teachers aren't close enough to kids with regularity for this to be a huge issue.

And as someone who taught at a summer camp for years and has come into contact with many forms of contagious bodily fluids -- getting regularly vaccines and taking care of your health absolutely makes a difference. I rarely get sick even when my own kids are sick because I'm good about hand washing and eat well and exercise. When I do get sick it generally doesn't hit me hard.

How do you think people who actuallly work in hospitals and doctors offices do it. And no most of them do not wear masks all the time. Perhaps during the height of flu season or if something is going around but not all the time because it does inhibit your job.

I'm an ESOL teacher who pulls small groups all day from kindergarten-2nd grade. I absolutely have kids in every one of those grades cough and sneeze right in my face. I have kindergarten-2nd graders who have snot running down their noses and then wipe it with their hands/arms/sleeves. I sit 5-7 ft away from them at a kidney table.

6th graders do it. Some of you have failed at teaching your kids basic manners and hygiene. And you send them to school sick. Then complain when a teacher is wearing a mask. But also complain when the teacher is absent because she is sick. Shocking that we have a teacher shortage.

+1. But thankfully admin is on our side. Cracks me up that some of you think the principal GAF about your selfish opinions.

A mask is just not enough protect you from all the germs at an elementary school. It offers some protection, but it mainly protects the kids from getting the teacher's germs if she's contagious.

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Anonymous wrote:Would you call someone out for using a cane? A walker? A hearing aid? A wrist strap to treat carpal tunnel pain? Surely these may inhibit teaching or driving, but are helpful to the wearer who is able to perform better with these supports.

ummm yes I would call out someone who cannot perform a core function of their job due to a disability … definitely if it compromised their driving!!

You would request that a principal fire a teacher who used a cane? What the actual F is wrong with you anti-maskers? You just hate anyone with disabilities?

Anonymous wrote:Would you call someone out for using a cane? A walker? A hearing aid? A wrist strap to treat carpal tunnel pain? Surely these may inhibit teaching or driving, but are helpful to the wearer who is able to perform better with these supports.

ummm yes I would call out someone who cannot perform a core function of their job due to a disability … definitely if it compromised their driving!!

Would you call someone out for using a cane? A walker? A hearing aid? A wrist strap to treat carpal tunnel pain? Surely these may inhibit teaching or driving, but are helpful to the wearer who is able to perform better with these supports.

Don't work in an elementary school if you are a germophobe or immunocompromised. With the high number of English learners in schools, young kids really do need to see the teacher's mouth moving when speaking. If my child were an English learner, I would ask to have them moved to a different classroom. The native English speaking children probably won't be negatively affected by it.

Anonymous wrote:The vitriol on this topic is out of control.

Someone is an entitled sociopath for saying they are bummed their 2nd graders teacher wears a mask? Really? Just listen to yourself. The inability to see anyone else’s point of view or have any empathy makes some of you raging narcissists if we’re throwing around mental disorders.

The teacher has every right to wear a mask and the OP can be bummed about it. That’s the only reasonable position on this topic.

The vitrol is coming from anti-maskers. People defending a teacher wearing a mask is absolutely not vitrol. Perhaps you misread or misunderstood pp's post (she wasn't even wearing a mask!), here it is again for you.

"Several times I’ve read on this forum that “No one is going to mask to protect the immune compromised. We’re done with masking and never going back.” Then someone else, or perhaps the same person, will berate people who *do* mask as OCD and crazy. Some of us are still vulnerable in the Covid era. I’m not sorry that reality is inconvenient for entitled sociopaths."

I'd wager that anyone who detests the immune compromised and turns around to berate someone wearing a mask is definitely an entitled sociopath. But keep going off on how much people masking directly affects you

Anonymous wrote:I just wanna know why the maskers never wore masks before Covid

The information on aerosolized particles vs droplets was not throughly researched and available to the public. Internet access has made that possible. Many viruses were thought to be spread by fomites. Glove wearing was much more common. Research into air filtration, mask types, and modern intervention simply wasn’t widely accessible.

Think of gloves - in the past, women were expected to wear them to social events day/night in polite company, and required to wear them in the presence of royalty. Cancer patients were encouraged to wear gloves at all times.

Why should masks be different?

Why can't you change schools?

Anonymous wrote:Bring it up with the principal, not the teacher. It would help if several parents did this. You are not the only parent bothered by it.

Of course she is. She's a terrible person. Please don't validate her ridiculous feelings.