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Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

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I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

And stop telling to stop wearing masks cause you have hearing issues. It’s rude too. You never know what health issues the person wearing the mask has. It goes both ways.

I literally said that I am not saying people should not wear masks because of my hearing issues. And that I myself mask when appropriate.

It obviously does NOT go both ways because a lot of people expect me to just always defer to someone's mask wearing and no one gives a crap about those of us who struggle to understand people who wear masks. If this was really something that went both ways then people would have said things in this thread like "that sounds hard even though the teacher has a right to wear a mask -- have you considered asking about masks with clear panels or seeing if there is some other solution that could meet everyone halfway."

Instead people who said that they or their kids struggled to understand someone in a mask were called names. Because apparently mentioning one of the obvious and unfortunate downsides of masking is the same as being an anti-vaxxer or a Covid denier.

So yeah it should go both ways but it very much doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:My son has a teacher who wears a mask daily in high school. I thought it was odd as well, but he hasn’t complained about being able to hear her so it hasn’t been an issue.

Good thing he already knows how to read and spell. Unlike a second grader

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Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

And stop telling to stop wearing masks cause you have hearing issues. It’s rude too. You never know what health issues the person wearing the mask has. It goes both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:You should consider getting your hearing checked, OP, if you can't understand people who are wearing masks. It sounds like you have hearing issues and use lip movement to provide context clues.

+1

I have truly never had an issue hearing any adult or child who was wearing a mask

Hearing loss is a pretty common long term complication after having covid. Perhaps you also need to be wearing a mask

As someone who also struggles to understand people wearing masks and for sure has some hearing (fairly minor) hearing loss, I find the glibness here really rude.

And first, to be clear, my hearing loss is not Covid related. I had Covid for the first time in fall of 2022. I experienced hearing challenges before then and specifically challenges understanding people in masks.

But second, telling people to "get their ears checked' like this solves the entire problem is incredibly rude. Addressing hearing loss is more complicated and can be expensive. Also for some people the problem is not their hearing specifically but auditory processing which is specifically impacted when listening to voices without seeing lips move or being able to read expressions. I have become the issues and the advent of widespread mask wearing made me realize how much I rely on visual cues to help with understanding people

Anyway the upshot is that even with my hearing aid I still sometimes can't understand people in masks (or who have heavy accents or who speak without moving their lips much). If the mask muffles their voice and covers their lower face then turning up my hearing sometimes just makes something unintelligible, louder.

This doesn't mean I think no one should mask. I dutifully wore a mask through the pandemic and still do when it's appropriate (I'm sick or someone close to me is sick or risk of getting sick is very high). But it's so rude and selfish to write it off when people talk about the challenges of communication with masks, especially in a setting like school where communication is very fundamental.

And stop telling people "get your ears checked." It's rude and betrays how little you care about people with hearing loss, as well as how little you understand what it means to have hearing issues and how they are treated.

Anonymous wrote:Adhd kids won’t get anything out of it.

Anonymous wrote:I feel you. My daughter's teacher wore one two years in a row (kinder and first). She struggled to learn to read and I think it was related. Experts say seeing the mouth form letters and sounds is important. In any event, even though I hated it and it made me angry that she was in my opinion harming a generation of kids there is nothing I could do so I didn't say anything. Basically, this is just one of those things that you can't control unless you are willing to ask for a class change or move to private.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

A lot, because of attendance policies that penalize parents who keep their sick kids out of school. And if the kid wears a mask, someone will ask him why he didn't stay home due to being sick. Parents can't win either.

A little communication from the teacher would go a long way here. Parents automatically jump to germophobe virtue signaller in the absence of any information.

Private medical information is just that - private. How dare you feel entitled to know someone elses reasons for masking. Mind your own damn business, it doesnt actually make a difference either way. You just like to be able to sh!t on people if their reasons aren't "good enough" for you.

+1 Some of the posters on this thread are unhinged. People can choose to wear a mask. It protects the health of the wearer and protects your child from germs too. You don't need to know why, and if you find that problematic--homeschool your precious snowflake.

It's 2024. The snowflakes are the ones in masks. If you're at a school and you're worried about germs, you're in the wrong profession.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher.
I’ve just been diagnosed w leukemia and some other autoimmune thing is going on as well.
I just want to finish out the year do I can retire. I’ll be wearing a mask so I can do that.
Take. A. Seat.

Nobody is talking about you. We’re talking about the health anxiety types. Best of luck with your treatment.

Anonymous wrote:An immunocompromised person would not work in an elementary school. How dumb could you be to do such a thing? Our district can reassign classroom teachers to non-classroom jobs if they fear getting sick from little kid germs.

Anonymous wrote:Does your child have auditory processing issues? A hearing problem? If not - you leave it alone. If yes, ask to switch classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Which is better: a teacher who wears a mask, a teacher who's out frequently due to illness, or a teacher who is a long-term sub because the actual teacher quit?

None? A normal teacher that can teach without a mask. It’s so much more effective when teachers aren’t masked when teaching young children. If you can’t do that, then work a different job someone else that can do this is able to be hired

If there was someone else that could do the job, they'd have already been hired for the class next door that has a long term sub with no reprieve in sight.

Anonymous wrote:Donate a wireless mic headset so you kid can hear.