first full day with students 2021-2022 school year. Almost all of my students were masked-one was

[demtenjeep]

even gloved.



I am vaxxed as are most of my peers. Many of my students are vaxxed also!!!


It was SO great to see students in person.


Kansas

[3catwoman3]

1. It sounds like you have intelligent students...

…who have intelligent parents.

What grade?

[elleng]

2. EXCELLENT!

[hlthe2b]

3. If only the same could be said throughout the country. I'm pleased to hear at least in your school

[Ms. Toad]

18. All my students (118 of them) have been masked for the past 5 days.

Unfortunately, despite university mask orders, there is a group that deems itself special - and their supervisors are refusing to make them wear masks. Fortunately not much overlap in time and space - but when one group doesn't have to wear masks it will be pretty hard to keep everyone else masked.

[Takket]

4. going to take a wild guess here that you don't live in Tennessee

[demtenjeep]

6. no-almost as bad. We have a D Gov. but an R legislature who have tried to prevent all safety

but we are the largest district in KS.


All staff wear masks and I can only remember 3 or 4 students with out a mask.

AND while we have no mandate yet, our district STRONGLY encourages masks.


Grades 6,7 and 8

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Shawnee Mission?

Oh, wait, probably Blue Valley.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I wouldn't step foot into my classroom

unless everyone was masked AND fully vaxxed. I catch anything and everything from kids and I wouldn't be able to focus on teaching if I was worried about getting sick all day, every day. I was sick 90% of the time I was teaching and that is WITH yearly flu shots, good diet, good sleep, exercise, etc. I have ended up with permanent illnesses and even had to go to the hospital for transfusions once (almost died). And it all goes back to the source...the classroom.

[onecaliberal]

7. We have parents refusing to allow their children to be masked.

Not only that. They’re demanding that the teacher also be unmasked because the students can’t see her smile. These parents are truly psychotic.

[Thtwudbeme]

21. In my school that student would be spending

The day in the in school suspension room

[onecaliberal]

23. That would be about 20 thousand students here. No exaggeration.

[bluedevil4]

8. Nice to hear

Thank you for giving me hope

[Victor_c3]

9. My 5th grader is one of the few kids we saw the other day wearing a mask

Sorry, didn’t mean to reply directly to you. I meant to reply to the OP

The first day of school isn’t until next week, but we had an orientation event for 5th graders. She was one of only a few kid her age with a mask on. She’s 10 and won’t be eligible for the vaccine until she’s 12.

Almost none of the staff were wearing masks either.

[bluedevil4]

11. Not to worry

I like the attention

Sorry to hear about your 5th grader’s class. Can I ask what state you live in

[Baked Potato]

10. Thank you for teaching.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. There is hope. Thanks

[hunter]

13. The children in our schools are all masked...

... more or less, most of the time, as much as you could reasonably expect from children.

75% of those 12 Years of age and older in our county are vaccinated.

Nevertheless I'm not sure what I'd be doing if my own children were not adults.

It's possible I'd be keeping the not-vaccinated kids at home.

[Fla Dem]

15. What year do you teach?

Glad to hear most were masked. You know the ones that weren’t may get some peer pressure.

[Bluethroughu]

16. I love to hear this!

[slumcamper]

17. This is dystopian.

I am also an educator--though not in the classroom sense. I have infinite admiration and deep respect for those in the classroom.

Having been a classroom teacher, I can certainly empathize how it would be "SO great to see students in person," especially if all are exhibiting proper scientifically based and socially aware behaviors.

But really...have we sunk so low that we have arrived at the point where basic expectations of social demeanor and common decency have become cause for elation?

Welcome to dystopia--and please feel free to shoot the messenger if the hard truth is hurtful.

[people]

19. So glad to hear that!

Kansans want to protect their children. So glad to hear it.

[Warpy]

20. Well, tell the gloved one that the mask will do

unless s/he likes sweaty hands. Washing hands offers a lot more protection than gloves do. Once you touch anything else with a gloved hand, you'll transfer cooties to everything eles you touch with the glove.

It's better to wash with soap and water singing "Happy Birthday" twice, which comes out to about 20 seconds. That's how long it takes for the soap to chew through the fatty envelope the virus is in and once that happens, dead virus.

I always found gloves a lot more uncomfortable than a mask was.

[Silver Gaia]

22. He might have a skin condition.

I do. I wear gloves because my skin can't take that much hand washing, and I also am unable to use hand sanitizer. If I did all of that, my hands would crack open and bleed. I'd rather they be sweaty! I treat my gloved hands the same as I would if I were ungloved, though, so they get washed and sanitizer applied like everyone else. I carry fresh ones if I need them, too. This works for me. He could have similar needs.

[marble falls]

25. Hang in there! The more we do now makes gets us to better times, sooner.

[marble falls]

27. How do you feel about vaccination?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. He can write an essay for you about that. NT

[marble falls]

29. In ESL? Thanks, man!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. You'll have to wait for the edit first. NT

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[The Polack MSgt]

31. Heh

[mahatmakanejeeves]

32. I'm still waiting for the guy who likes to read the news to drop the other shoe. NT

[marble falls]

33. Only takes time.