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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

Of course they are going to be segregated. The masked kids don’t want to sit near your kids or work on projects with them. Especially if they have a parent or grandparent with health issues at home.

They will be segregated because they still have to try and follow the CDC guidelines as dictated by state law to what extent they can. They will be distanced further from the rest of the kids. This is actually the diocese policy.

The maskless parents are not thinking this through and if there kids are unvaccinated they will be quarantined and kicked out at any in class exposures, because that is what the guidance says as well.

Our school wants them all to be masked. And thankfully the early reports are only a handful of kids are not wearing masks. We have teachers with health issues, etc. These maskless kids are the same ones that jumped into our school when public school was all virtual because they needed in person. Now these same families are trying to cause outbreaks in our schools with their stupidity, and then we will have to shut down. We have had ZERO spread in our school and have been in person all of last year. The safety procedures have been amazing. Now we have these knuckleheads going to ruin it.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

Of course they are going to be segregated. The masked kids don’t want to sit near your kids or work on projects with them. Especially if they have a parent or grandparent with health issues at home.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

Of course they are going to be segregated. The masked kids don’t want to sit near your kids or work on projects with them. Especially if they have a parent or grandparent with health issues at home.

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Anonymous wrote:A number of kids were removing their masks during the day, I’m told. I witnessed the 6-8 graders putting their masks back on as they left school to catch their rides home. I was mortified.

Wow, I hadn’t thought of this. Presumably those kids’ parents are expecting them to wear masks throughout the day and haven’t opted out. How are schools and teachers going to enforce it and keep track of who is supposed to mask and who isn’t?

Wow, you really don't understand kids! (hint: they are all going to do this!)

They can't though. They have to opt out (at least in our school) which requires paperwork. If they don't opt out they must wear a mask because they have to be distanced more, etc

You also don't know how classrooms work. Teachers have said they aren't "tracking" paperwork and don't have the bandwidth to be on this all day. The cool kids were the first to take them off, as they are more confident. Over the next few days they'll all be down or off.
Also, segregating the class is going against the direction the diocese gave in writing that no student would be treated differently. When parents find out their maskless child has been segregated from the class they should contact the diocese immediately, etc.

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I haven't read this thread, but I have a question.

Optional masking should mean that kids can mask or not, depending on choice. So a kid can mask today and not mask tomorrow, depending on choice. Why should the teachers be policing what kids do on their choice on any day? When a behavior is by choice, and choice can change over time even for a given kid, then there should not be any tracking of any sort.

The executive order frames it as if the parents have a choice.

In reality, the children are running the show here, as teachers have lost the right to 1) protest when they have to share a room with unvaccinated people who don't wear a mask and are not socially distant and 2) tell children that they SPOKE to the parent and the parent said they want the child do X/Y & Z.

So, yeah, the six year olds are really in charge now.

That always works out great.

Unvaccinated and unmasked kids are not the problem. It’s the kids going to school sick. These are usually the ones hiding symptoms behind masks.

Not quite correct. You are contagious two days prior to symptoms (perhaps even three) so parents can be sending in infection points without realizing it. I have to do covid intake reports at my office building. We are 100% masked and have been since we went back last summer. No one is allowed in with any signs of any illness. Most comply so we have had very few instances of sending people home sick. They call in and work from home. Our infection points have all been close contacts in the day or two leading up to symptoms.

Now, you might ask -- WELL if you are all masked then how is it spreading? GOOD QUESTION! We have found that in MOST cases it is because employees are breaking the rules. They are having in person meetings (unmasked because they want people to hear them or they are healthy), they are eating lunch with one another, and hanging out at one another's desk and they have their masks off. EVERY.SINGLE.FREAKING.TIME!!!

We have had low to no incidences of transmission amongst the properly masked and distanced even with Omicron.

Not quite correct. You are contagious two days prior to symptoms (perhaps even three) so parents can be sending in infection points without realizing it. I have to do covid intake reports at my office building. We are 100% masked and have been since we went back last summer. No one is allowed in with any signs of any illness. Most comply so we have had very few instances of sending people home sick. They call in and work from home. Our infection points have all been close contacts in the day or two leading up to symptoms.

Now, you might ask -- WELL if you are all masked then how is it spreading? GOOD QUESTION! We have found that in MOST cases it is because employees are breaking the rules. They are having in person meetings (unmasked because they want people to hear them or they are healthy), they are eating lunch with one another, and hanging out at one another's desk and they have their masks off. EVERY.SINGLE.FREAKING.TIME!!!

We have had low to no incidences of transmission amongst the properly masked and distanced even with Omicron.