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Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

Which charter?

We're at Two Rivers, and this sounds like us. Except they came back a few days later and said they're keeping the outdoor mask mandate for a little while longer because of recent positive COVID tests of students.

Just two more weeks! Because clearly outdoor transmission is a factor here.

Two Rivers, never change. Keep on completely mishandling COVID and disregarding science.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

Which charter?

We're at Two Rivers, and this sounds like us. Except they came back a few days later and said they're keeping the outdoor mask mandate for a little while longer because of recent positive COVID tests of students.

Just two more weeks! Because clearly outdoor transmission is a factor here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

Which charter?

We're at Two Rivers, and this sounds like us. Except they came back a few days later and said they're keeping the outdoor mask mandate for a little while longer because of recent positive COVID tests of students.

Just two more weeks! Because clearly outdoor transmission is a factor here.

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Anonymous wrote:Our charter dropped the outdoor mask mandate but all of my DC's teachers still wear them outside and they don't ask or suggest unmasking to any of the prek students. So....everyone is still fully masked (except of course for nap time) because the kids are too young to understand any different and remove them themselves.

So your proposal is shame the teachers and strip them of their ability to wear masks?

Well that’s a wild misreading of PP’s post. Maybe teachers could say “you can take off your mask if you would like.”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

Which charter?

We're at Two Rivers, and this sounds like us. Except they came back a few days later and said they're keeping the outdoor mask mandate for a little while longer because of recent positive COVID tests of students.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our charter dropped the outdoor mask mandate but all of my DC's teachers still wear them outside and they don't ask or suggest unmasking to any of the prek students. So....everyone is still fully masked (except of course for nap time) because the kids are too young to understand any different and remove them themselves.

So your proposal is shame the teachers and strip them of their ability to wear masks?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

Which charter?

Anonymous wrote:Our charter dropped the outdoor mask mandate but all of my DC's teachers still wear them outside and they don't ask or suggest unmasking to any of the prek students. So....everyone is still fully masked (except of course for nap time) because the kids are too young to understand any different and remove them themselves.

Anonymous wrote:To answer the question, the outdoor mask mandate will be dropped next week. Unvaccinated kids can test to stay (so especially good for prek parents). Everything else stays (which includes a lot of rules beyond masking).

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Anonymous wrote:It truly is embarrassing for the whole charter school movement in DC that this is taking place.

One of the funniest aspects of this board is the dichotomy pf ostensibly progressive people making peace with sending their kids to charter schools but now we've found one issue where we don't have to.

Ummm. You are not progressive, nor are many on this board. You are just carrying the water of patriarchy and racism in the name of the children. Gag.

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Anonymous wrote:It truly is embarrassing for the whole charter school movement in DC that this is taking place.

One of the funniest aspects of this board is the dichotomy pf ostensibly progressive people making peace with sending their kids to charter schools but now we've found one issue where we don't have to.

Ummm. You are not progressive, nor are many on this board. You are just carrying the water of patriarchy and racism in the name of the children. Gag.

Anonymous wrote:It truly is embarrassing for the whole charter school movement in DC that this is taking place.

One of the funniest aspects of this board is the dichotomy pf ostensibly progressive people making peace with sending their kids to charter schools but now we've found one issue where we don't have to.

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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.

I'd love to see people come together to agree that, at a minimum, ECE kids shouldn't be masked unless they have a risk factor. I don't even mean "they can mask if they want", but an actual recommendation that if a child under 6 is otherwise healthy, it would be better for them not to mask in order to support language acquisition and social skill development. I think kids in this group are getting screwed out of important developmental experiences because of this temporary insanity.

THIS

But you don't have any science or studies that support your position that "kids in this group are getting screwed out of important developmental experiences." Studies have actually disproven this. So you want to take the autonomy of ECE kids, some who want to wear masks of their own volition, and/or supplant their parents' decisions with your own (ill-informed, ego-driven) opinions?

The burden of proof is on people who want to engage in a practice that you never
even would have been able to get approval to study pre-covid because if you said "maybe kids don't need to see faces" that would be crazy. And they have not shown either efficacy of masking or that it doesn't negatively affect kids. On the latter, what does exist just does not have external validity on the actual topic, which is long-term school masking. In the absence of research, we have other kinds of evidence, like what we're hearing from mental health practitioners, teachers, and parents, and it's bad.

As for "autonomy", we don't even let these kids wear hats in school. My kids wear uniforms. And obviously they didn't have autonomy when we were making them wear masks. But they weren't even suggesting this, just a recommendation against doing it.