Do you support or oppose school mask mandates?

[GregTheGreat657]

Oppose

[Person Man]

Oppose, but it’s a matter for the local school board to decide.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Support for teachers and other adult education workers. Oppose for children.

[Sestak]

Support for teachers and other adult education workers. Oppose for children.

Both lecturing with a mask on and understanding what a lecturer/teacher is saying when they have a mask on are cumbersome and sometimes quite difficult. I also fail to see why in, say, a classroom of 35 students, the students should all be able to go unmasked but the instructor has to be the one masked person in the room?

[😥]

Oppose

[Antonio the Sixth]

Support for teachers and other adult education workers. Oppose for children.

Both lecturing with a mask on and understanding what a lecturer/teacher is saying when they have a mask on are cumbersome and sometimes quite difficult. I also fail to see why in, say, a classroom of 35 students, the students should all be able to go unmasked but the instructor has to be the one masked person in the room?

That's a fair point. I guess in setting when the teacher can reasonably be expected to keep some distance with students it's probably better to avoid a mask. In close contact circumstances, though, I think that avoiding the spread of COVID among adults is a reasonable concern. Kids are barely affected by it, so they aren't a direct concern in the same way (plus, wearing a mask is far more of a burden for a kid).

[Mr. Illini]

Leave it up to the district. If I were a superintendent I’d favor them during waves and remove them after the peak.

I’d also make quality masks available as the cloth ones many kids are wearing do very little.

[progressive85]

I think that it should be a joint decision made by parents (as in the parents all vote on it) and the school, and school by school, case by case.  I don't like the idea of any national or state mandates about anything really.  Let it be done at the local level, and only be done if there is a very serious variant or strain and it's out of caution - not when cases are going down... I don't think these masks should be around for much longer, it's not human to walk around in masks, otherwise why don't we all just wear oxygen masks as if we're in space?  It gets to a point where you've got to say, "Stopping us from living is not stopping us from dying."

[Vice President Christian Man]

I personally support masks but oppose mandates as it should be a personal decision.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Oppose, should be a personal decision

[Former President tack50]

Support for middle and high school kids (and even perhaps some primary school kids, maybe age 10 is the appropiate cutoff?); as well as personnel.

Oppose in the following cases:

-During recess, if the recess takes place outdoors
-During any class that is taught outdoors (really only Physical Education and sports)
-For Kindergarteners, toddlers and children under age 10.

I definitely support indoor mandates, at least for now. Also this should hopefully be the last school year with masks; I would expect masks to be fully off somewhere around late March/early April if trends continue.

[Ferguson97]

Support, I guess. Keeping the schools open with mask mandates seems like a fine compromise. Leave it up to the districts.

Fine with removing mask mandates for the 2022-2023 school year though.