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Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

indoor masking is still required in pg public schools, so this hyperbole isn't super helpful

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Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Germany is still masking elementary school kids, but they also have more than ten times the case rate as DC right now. Clearly, their medical-grade mask mandate (no cloth masks since late 2020) and all their other crazy restrictions didn't prevent this surge.

Even during this surge, Germany does not require children under the age of 6 to mask. At all, even if unvaccinated, even on public transportation or at school.

Are there Asian countries that require children under 6 to mask at school? I really think the US generally, and DC specifically, is unique in masking preschool and kindergarten age children. It is so weird.

Ummm. Japan; Korea; Hong Kong...

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter just announced mask optional outdoors starting Monday but masks still required indoors at least through spring break. I am 100% in agreement with this.

I am annoyed that they surveyed the school community. There are way too many uber anxious parents for this to have arrived at a rational result. The admin should have just been leaders and made an actual evidence based decision. If they don't make masks optional after spring break, we might be in the running for the last school in the country still masking...

+1 and we are probably at the same school. It's the first time the school has ever asked parents for their input and I think it's because they know they will get the response they want which is to keep masking for the rest of the year. The school has not followed science and acts like it is still March 2020. They excitedly announced that they were stopping temperature checks and taking down the plexiglass partitions which have done nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Regardless of all that it makes NO sense to keep kids masked while rest of the world and DC run around without masks. Choice is just that -- let the scared parents or the ones that haven't vaccinated their kids wear mask and let my vaccinated child follow the science.

Why not leave the school? It looks like you don't fit in the community?

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter just announced mask optional outdoors starting Monday but masks still required indoors at least through spring break. I am 100% in agreement with this.

I am annoyed that they surveyed the school community. There are way too many uber anxious parents for this to have arrived at a rational result. The admin should have just been leaders and made an actual evidence based decision. If they don't make masks optional after spring break, we might be in the running for the last school in the country still masking...

+1 and we are probably at the same school. It's the first time the school has ever asked parents for their input and I think it's because they know they will get the response they want which is to keep masking for the rest of the year. The school has not followed science and acts like it is still March 2020. They excitedly announced that they were stopping temperature checks and taking down the plexiglass partitions which have done nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Regardless of all that it makes NO sense to keep kids masked while rest of the world and DC run around without masks. Choice is just that -- let the scared parents or the ones that haven't vaccinated their kids wear mask and let my vaccinated child follow the science.

Why not leave the school? It looks like you don't fit in the community?

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter just announced mask optional outdoors starting Monday but masks still required indoors at least through spring break. I am 100% in agreement with this.

I am annoyed that they surveyed the school community. There are way too many uber anxious parents for this to have arrived at a rational result. The admin should have just been leaders and made an actual evidence based decision. If they don't make masks optional after spring break, we might be in the running for the last school in the country still masking...

+1 and we are probably at the same school. It's the first time the school has ever asked parents for their input and I think it's because they know they will get the response they want which is to keep masking for the rest of the year. The school has not followed science and acts like it is still March 2020. They excitedly announced that they were stopping temperature checks and taking down the plexiglass partitions which have done nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Regardless of all that it makes NO sense to keep kids masked while rest of the world and DC run around without masks. Choice is just that -- let the scared parents or the ones that haven't vaccinated their kids wear mask and let my vaccinated child follow the science.

We’re probably at the same school also. It’s embarrassing, quite frankly.

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter just announced mask optional outdoors starting Monday but masks still required indoors at least through spring break. I am 100% in agreement with this.

I am annoyed that they surveyed the school community. There are way too many uber anxious parents for this to have arrived at a rational result. The admin should have just been leaders and made an actual evidence based decision. If they don't make masks optional after spring break, we might be in the running for the last school in the country still masking...

+1 and we are probably at the same school. It's the first time the school has ever asked parents for their input and I think it's because they know they will get the response they want which is to keep masking for the rest of the year. The school has not followed science and acts like it is still March 2020. They excitedly announced that they were stopping temperature checks and taking down the plexiglass partitions which have done nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Regardless of all that it makes NO sense to keep kids masked while rest of the world and DC run around without masks. Choice is just that -- let the scared parents or the ones that haven't vaccinated their kids wear mask and let my vaccinated child follow the science.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

indoor masking is still required in pg public schools, so this hyperbole isn't super helpful

Hey. One additional county in the entire world is doing this.

Not at all embarrassing.

my point is that some people seem to really be leaning into this victim role that their school "will be the last in the world" -- see the hyperbolic posts above. I shared to normalize this timeline a bit even if it isn't what we all would want.

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Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

indoor masking is still required in pg public schools, so this hyperbole isn't super helpful

Hey. One additional county in the entire world is doing this.

Not at all embarrassing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Germany is still masking elementary school kids, but they also have more than ten times the case rate as DC right now. Clearly, their medical-grade mask mandate (no cloth masks since late 2020) and all their other crazy restrictions didn't prevent this surge.

Even during this surge, Germany does not require children under the age of 6 to mask. At all, even if unvaccinated, even on public transportation or at school.

Are there Asian countries that require children under 6 to mask at school? I really think the US generally, and DC specifically, is unique in masking preschool and kindergarten age children. It is so weird.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

indoor masking is still required in pg public schools, so this hyperbole isn't super helpful

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Germany is still masking elementary school kids, but they also have more than ten times the case rate as DC right now. Clearly, their medical-grade mask mandate (no cloth masks since late 2020) and all their other crazy restrictions didn't prevent this surge.

Even during this surge, Germany does not require children under the age of 6 to mask. At all, even if unvaccinated, even on public transportation or at school.

Are there Asian countries that require children under 6 to mask at school? I really think the US generally, and DC specifically, is unique in masking preschool and kindergarten age children. It is so weird.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Germany is still masking elementary school kids, but they also have more than ten times the case rate as DC right now. Clearly, their medical-grade mask mandate (no cloth masks since late 2020) and all their other crazy restrictions didn't prevent this surge.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.

And by worldwide, it really will be worldwide. I can't wait for our charter to be one of only, say, 12 schools worldwide still participating in an indoor school mask mandate. What a privileged and elite group!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charters are banding together to form their own science that appeases their COVID fear mongering community and continuing indoor masking.

LA just announced masks not required indoors. It will be funny when a handful of charter in DC are the only schools worldwide still insisting on this.