Anonymous wrote:No masks will equal virtual learning. Just watch it happen. Schools are already short staffed and now it will be far worse. To those of you who are screaming about your kid not having to wear a mask, you are probably the same ones who were screaming when schools were closed last year. I hope all the teachers quit this thankless, shitty profession in droves. I know I am out this year.

Anonymous wrote:I regret voting for him now. The masks needs to come off, but not right now, during the middle of this last surge. That’s just foolish. If he has political aspirations after this, he can count me out.

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Anonymous wrote:Another teacher for whom this will be a deal-breaker. I will quit as soon as masks are no longer required in my school. We don't need the money and my health is more important to me than dealing with a bunch of whack jobs with anxiety who refuse to wear masks.

Yay I love learning that our amazing graduate-level teachers are so completely unable to read data. And I love knowing you view my kids as vectors of disease.

Not a teacher. Here again is evidence that my kids' classmates have parents who don't understand data themselves but think they're smarter than teachers.

No wonder people are leaving the profession in droves.

Anonymous wrote:It is too bad that a student with a disability or a student choosing not to wear a mask will be caught in the middle. But one of these students has a real right at stake and the other doesn't unless you somehow infer that wearing or not wearing a mask is equated with free expression - but there are limits to the First Amendment in public schools. You know that Youngkin is truly committed to upholding civil rights when Miyares fired 30 attorneys in the Office of Civil Rights, including many career civil servants. It's typical for the political appointees to peel off but not the ones who know the ins and outs of the office.

Anonymous wrote:The one silver lining to all this is it will let us know who the dirtbag parents are so we know who should never be included in another birthday party, MNO or other social gathering. If they want their kids to be social pariahs, so be it.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers: If unmasked kids show up in your class next week and you are not comfortable with them being there, send them to the principal's office. First, the EO does not go into effect next week, but the week after. Second, the EO is not valid and there will be lawsuits filed to enjoin it from going into effect soon enough. A federal court in Tennessee found that a similar EO was unconstitutional (this applies to all Virginia school districts). Additionally, here in Virginia, state law provides that what school boards set as the policy trumps the EO (this applies to Virginia school districts where the school board will support continuance of a mask mandate).

Good information. I hope teachers read this and do exactly as you suggest.

Question: What should kids do (masked kids who don't want to be around unmasked kids), do you think? I don't want riots in classrooms but my kids are NOT comfortable being in classrooms with unmasked and unvaccinated kids.

All of this drama is making me want to resign as a teacher. Now. I won’t but I don’t know if I will continue next year. I can’t handle the extreme views and being caught in the middle anymore. I didn’t become a teacher to be the mask police of teenagers on top of addressing all of this learning loss. And let’s throw in addressing mental health and endless PD on equity. I’m done.

-teacher who doesn’t want to wear a mask any longer

I'm very pro mask and agree 100% that way more is being put on teachers than they ever expected. It isn't fair.

Thank you for your work as a teacher—I know it’s hard, and the politicization of this doesn’t help. Please know that the extreme pro-mask and anti-mask views on this board likely don’t reflect the majority of folks, at least around here in Northern Virginia. FWIW, I get why people are frustrated with masking at this point—the vast majority of folks have now had an opportunity to get vaccinated, and the reality is that omicron is not as severe as prior versions of COVID. On the other hand, lifting the mask mandate now—in the midst of a huge surge—doesn’t make any sense. The rational off ramp for masks probably would be in a few months—the numbers will likely be declining, the weather will be better, and more folks who have recently been approved for vaccination will have had an opportunity to get vaccinated. Alas, that schedule doesn’t align with the inauguration of our new governor, and so now we will have political and legal fights about the interplay of his EO with state law—with our kids stuck in the middle.

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Anonymous wrote:No masks will equal virtual learning. Just watch it happen. Schools are already short staffed and now it will be far worse. To those of you who are screaming about your kid not having to wear a mask, you are probably the same ones who were screaming when schools were closed last year. I hope all the teachers quit this thankless, shitty profession in droves. I know I am out this year.

Whiny babies never should have been given a license to teach anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:The one silver lining to all this is it will let us know who the dirtbag parents are so we know who should never be included in another birthday party, MNO or other social gathering. If they want their kids to be social pariahs, so be it.

People like you are always looking for excuses to let their mean girl flags fly. The sad thing is you don’t realize you’re already a pariah.

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Anonymous wrote:The one silver lining to all this is it will let us know who the dirtbag parents are so we know who should never be included in another birthday party, MNO or other social gathering. If they want their kids to be social pariahs, so be it.

People like you are always looking for excuses to let their mean girl flags fly. The sad thing is you don’t realize you’re already a pariah.

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Anonymous wrote:No masks will equal virtual learning. Just watch it happen. Schools are already short staffed and now it will be far worse. To those of you who are screaming about your kid not having to wear a mask, you are probably the same ones who were screaming when schools were closed last year. I hope all the teachers quit this thankless, shitty profession in droves. I know I am out this year.

Whiny babies never should have been given a license to teach anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:My poor teacher daughter texted me today and asked me if a teacher had dumped Youngin in the past, and this was his way of getting back at teachers. It’s not the mask vs no mask. It’s the demonization of teachers. Youngkin is just shifting the responsibility. And it sucks. Schools will close because of staff shortages. And Youngkin will blame “lazy teachers”.

He knows he was elected solely because people are unhappy about "education."

To the PP who suggested sending students to the principal's office if they refuse to wear masks, do you really think that will work? My DCs are in HS. If most high schoolers decide not to wear masks, what is the recourse?

At my kids' school, most of the high schoolers want masks to remain in place.

Anonymous wrote:The one silver lining to all this is it will let us know who the dirtbag parents are so we know who should never be included in another birthday party, MNO or other social gathering. If they want their kids to be social pariahs, so be it.

Anonymous wrote:No masks will equal virtual learning. Just watch it happen. Schools are already short staffed and now it will be far worse. To those of you who are screaming about your kid not having to wear a mask, you are probably the same ones who were screaming when schools were closed last year. I hope all the teachers quit this thankless, shitty profession in droves. I know I am out this year.