Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:05 pm
jalanlong wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:41 am
Cortopassi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:16 am
jalanlong wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:00 am
Xan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:43 am
jalanlong wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:14 am
Just received another email from my son’s elementary school:
“If students are wearing a plastic face shield or a gaiter, the student is at further risk of catching the virus if someone in the class or a teacher is infected or at the very least, further risk of having to quarantine for 10 days. This is very preventable by wearing a double layer face mask instead of a face shield, because of the student and the teacher are both properly masked, neither is considered a close contact. I know a face shield is more comfortable, but I'm asking you to have your children wear a double layer face mask covering the nose and mouth at school instead of a gaiter or face shield if that is their current choice. Not only will it prevent us from putting students at risk of having to quarantine, it's just safer.“
But it sounds like you DO still have the option of using the face shield.
Well it says they are “asking” you to wear the double mask. They make them wear them during PE and Recess! I am going to pretend I never saw the email and see if they contact me directly to request him to wear a double mask.
And you are in Texas, right? Funny, I see the elementary school kids at recess here in
Illinois, no masks.
It varies by district as to how Covid crazy they are. My mother is in the same county but different school district and they are no masks at recess, they eat lunch in lunchroom as normal. My district is no touching at recess, eating at your desk surrounded by plexiglass.
I should probably opt out of the coronavirus discussion forum because this one upsets me almost as much as the politics forum, esp. when talking about school!
I am driven nuts watching the Chicago Teacher's Union on the news, still hemming and hawing about schools aren't safe, and I personally would lean toward giving all those teachers who are scared three options -- back to work, early retirement or getting fired. It frustrates me greatly that it is "all about the kids," with CTU, but it really doesn't seem to be. There does seem to be a large contingent of teachers with medical conditions. Maybe they need to be first in line for a shot.
My family talks all the time about opting out of todays news topics - We joke about needing the "Mayberry News Network - MNN"
News reporting:
- no actual shooting's to report - Police can only carry one bullet - allowed in shirt pocket only -
- Big drama is how to tell someone their pickles are not fit for the county fair
- weather report is always sunny or smells like a storm is coming but it never does
- no one every gets seriously hurt
- Crooks are always caught - outsmarted by the sheriff
- Politics is limited to what the Mayor as been doing
- Homeless reporting is limited to one person who ends up having a feel good story at the end
- Drug use is limited to the town drunk that never drinks and drives and always sleeps it off
- animal rights is having to raise baby birds because their mother was killed with a sling shot - life lesson story