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Posted on 07/08/2020 6:29:52 AM PDT by lightman
When students go back to school, they will be required to wear masks.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education released guidance Monday detailing when and where students are required to wear face coverings – and when they can take them off.
The guidance follows last week’s order from the Department of Health requiring people to wear masks when they leave their homes to help control the spread of the coronavirus.
According to the Department of Health, all people in school buildings must wear masks. The order is effective immediately and applies to all people who are 2 years old and older. The order applies to:
Kindergarten through 12th grade schools,
Brick-and-mortar and cyber charter schools,
Private and parochial schools,
Career and technical centers,
Intermediate units,
Educational programming for students in non-educational placements such as residential settings (boarding schools), residential facilities, detention centers, and hospital settings,
PA Pre-K Counts, Head Start Programs and Preschool Early Intervention programs, and private academic nursery schools and locally funded pre-kindergarten activities.
Schools may allow students to remove their face coverings in a few circumstances, including:
While eating or drinking when spaced at least 6 feet apart,
While seated at desks or assigned work spaces at least 6 feet apart,
While engaged in any activity at least 6 feet apart.
Students who cannot wear masks due to a medical or mental-health condition or disability will not be required to wear one.
For more guidance on school requirements and face masks, visit the Department of Education website.
Face masks must cover the nose and mouth. The order is in effect until further notice.
Dog whistle obedience training compliance checking.
Temperature checks would be a better measure.
As would eliminating "perfect attendance" awards.
Since this is all about social conditioning and indoctrination teach kids something valuable: WHEN YOU ARE SICK, STAY HOME!
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I can only wear a mask for 15 minutes at a time.
I was born premature with marginal lungs.
If churches can’t be made safe enough for California and Justice Roberts, then neither can schools.
so they can remove their masks [”training burqa”]
when visited or sought to be used by special people.
Why don’t the Pennsylvania public health officials go to Sweden and look at how Swedish schools have been operating with their K-12 schools, which were not shut down.
With the rate of kids obtaining or passing a Wuhan Virus infection so rock bottom low, having every kid wear a mask is more about behavior control and behavior conditioning than public safety.
This rule is going to make classroom management even more challenging.
- You will have students who will take their masks off because “it’s too hot”.
- You will have students who will wear their masks incorrectly, on purpose.
- And you will have students who will wear something other that a mask, just to be silly.
And if you think those kids will be sent to the principal (in city schools, anyway), you’re living in the past. That’s not done anymore, except in cases of extreme violence.
Not science based. Why not look at the experience in school openings in Europe? No masks, no social distancing.
Episodes of the teacher asking the class “Alright, who’s the wise guy that said that?” will skyrocket.
They can’t have it both ways: If it’s so dangerous that everyone must wear a mask, then it’s too dangerous to put them in that situation.
Refuse their BS conditioning...and demand refunds of your taxes.
“Students who cannot wear masks due to a medical or mental-health condition or disability will not be required to wear one.”
You would be exempt.
If this proceeds like every other half-assed and dumb policy put forth by the Wolf administration, this edict is going to magically be rescinded without advance notice a week before school starts, which will mean that the schools will all have to invest all of the effort for preparing for the disaster, but not actually see any of the payoff.
Tens of thousands of parents are going to enroll their children in cyber schools for the fall because they know their kids won’t learn in this dumb environment, and the way cyber school costs are incurred in PA, the local school districts are going to lose their own funding. This will throw budgets out of whack and tax plans for years to come.
All of it entirely unnecessary and avoidable, but anyone who dares address the fact that the Health Secretary’s authority is being abused by a person demonstrably inept at his/her position is dismissed as a bigot.
Just wondering, since folks over 60/70 seem more susceptible, when there will be a call for no indoctrinators, uh, I mean teachers, over 50?
This tweet that came out a few minutes ago from PDJT:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!
Suffocate the little buggers?
That is one example of what PDJT meant back in March when he said “the cure cannot be worse than the disease”.
For too many generations we have been incentivizing people to “come to work sick”.
It begins with kindergarten “perfect attendance awards”.
It accelerates with workplace annual reviews that penalize the mere USE—not ABUSE—of sick leave.
(Annual reviews SHOULD have major demerits for coming to work sick!)
It is exacerbated geometrically by combined paid time off (why burn a vacation day if you can suffer through a cold?) and contracts offering a cash-back for unused sick time at retirment.
That is one example of what PDJT meant back in March when he said “the cure cannot be worse than the disease”.
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