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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

I find this view interesting. So you want to teach your kids to blindly follow rules that make absolutely no sense scientifically according to the actual health officials? I don’t under this from a parenting perspective but I want my kids to be rational and understand when “authorities” are wrong. As they often are…

Yes, I do. That's part of living in a civil society. We're not "blindly" following the rules. We're choosing to follow them for various reasons that make sense to us. Not everything is about science, some of it is about social relationships and the social contract. We all sometimes follow rules that we don't think are scientifically sensible and that some actual heath officials dislike. Probably some rules that you think are super important and well-founded, other people think are stupid. I teach my kids to pick their battles and take a stand when it is truly important, and that in general they should follow the rules unless they have a compelling reason. And I don't want every random person making their own scientific judgments.

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

I find this view interesting. So you want to teach your kids to blindly follow rules that make absolutely no sense scientifically according to the actual health officials? I don’t under this from a parenting perspective but I want my kids to be rational and understand when “authorities” are wrong. As they often are…

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

Same here. Signed another ITDS parent.

Thirded. We like the school and don’t mind following whatever rules they have in place. Neither do our kids. Now we’ll all skip masks outside because it’s no longer a rule, and our lives will change in basically zero ways.

Anonymous wrote:Cases will be rising shortly due to the subvariant. Might as well keep the masks so we don’t need to change course when that happens.

This isn't something that needs lead time to reinstate. My office has changed policies on this multiple times as rates have changed. You send out an email and keep a couple of boxes around if someone forgets.

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

+1. I was willing to comply with the rule for those reasons, but I don't actually think outdoor masking on asymptomatic vaccinated people makes any difference whatsoever. And I think it's very, very silly when people act like it does. But that kind of thing is part of the deal at ITS.

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

Same here. Signed another ITDS parent.

Cases will be rising shortly due to the subvariant. Might as well keep the masks so we don’t need to change course when that happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

This was also my approach at a different charter which is going to lift outdoor masking next week. I will no longer be wearing one at pick up.

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The WHO doesn’t recommend a mask for children under 6. And the double dose series was ineffective for kids under 5. To wait for a vaccine for that age group is absurd, it may not come.

#facts

The WHO recommends vaccination young children.

#wecanallcherrypickfacts

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Anonymous wrote:I told my 4 yr old daughter she could take her mask off outside when she goes back to school (at ITDS) on Monday and she was ecstatic. She would love to unmask if she could.

Our school has an elaborate phased *outdoor* unmasking policy over a period of weeks. It’s a waste of resources. And parents must still mask up outdoors. Only in DC… I’d be OK if that were the indoor unmasking plan but nope that’s not even on the table yet.

Serious question: What would actually happen if a parent was outside and unmasked? Would they punish the student?

I’m pretty sure they would politely remind me to put on a mask. There’s 100% compliance so it would be weird.

I pick up and drop off at ITDS. There was a time with 100% compliance with parents masking outside 6 feet away from each other. More and more parents are dropping the nonsense.

I stopped masking outside at pick up but still see the majority of parents outside with their heavy duty masks. It’s ridiculous at this point

Maybe I am one of the parents you see. I only have one kind of mask in rotation, so it’s a KN95 that I throw on for a few minutes so I can show my kids and other kids that while this rule is in effect, adults follow it too. With outdoor masking now optional, I will be without it. But until then, it didn’t seem appropriate to pass along a message that a rule I didn’t like didn’t apply to me.

Anonymous wrote:I'd be nervous about their science curriculum.

+1

Inspired represents the far end of the very liberal spectrum. For example, I recently reviewed an 8th grader’s report card, which uses objective based grading. There was only one objective for Social Studies/History: “I am aware institutional bias limits individuals freedoms.” (This is paraphrased not a direct quote but pretty close.) If the only thing students are learning about in history class is that systemic racism exists, I am not surprised that they also have adopted a masking policy that is aligned with recent NYT/Pew research that those identifying as very liberal take COVID the most seriously.

(I’m not trying to hijack this thread to be about systemic racism, which certainly exists. But I did think it was strange that the only objective for the course was an acknowledgment of its existence. Math and reading had ~15 skills listed.)

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Anonymous wrote:I would wager about 90% of parents still wear masks at pickup. I found it outrageously selfish and obnoxious when parents don't - your kids have to wear masks all day and you can't wear them for 2 minutes for pickup? Ridiculous.

troll or not a troll? Poe's law is in effect.

Given that more than half of teachers and parents agree with me on the importance of continued masking, I hardly think my views make me an outlier. DCUM magnifies a few zealot anti-mask voices but out in the real world things are much different.

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Anonymous wrote:I would wager about 90% of parents still wear masks at pickup. I found it outrageously selfish and obnoxious when parents don't - your kids have to wear masks all day and you can't wear them for 2 minutes for pickup? Ridiculous.

troll or not a troll? Poe's law is in effect.

Given that more than half of teachers and parents agree with me on the importance of continued masking, I hardly think my views make me an outlier. DCUM magnifies a few zealot anti-mask voices but out in the real world things are much different.

Good for them