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Portland Public Schools teachers collect K95 masks, say students need more mask options
ABC News Local ^ | February 1, 2022 | by Megan Allison

Posted on 02/02/2022 8:16:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

PORTLAND, Ore. — Teachers across Portland Public Schools say masks provided by the district are not enough. A group has now collected more than $5,000 in just one week to order child-size K95 masks.

The teachers said they're starting with Rosa Parks Elementary and Cesar Chavez School, with plans to distribute at four other campuses in the weeks ahead.

Julie Whitaker is a kindergarten teacher at Bridlemile Elementary. She said they've already received 7,000 masks to pass out to Title I schools starting this week.

One teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary said well-fitting masks are not the norm.

"They’re surgical masks or they’re masks, especially at our elementary schools, they’re paper masks that don’t fit well at all. So, even when I do the little trick where you tie each side, and you push the dimples on the side so it can fit for a lot of the elementary school students, it does not fit well," Aurelian Boudreaux said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; virus; wuhan
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1 posted on 02/02/2022 8:16:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

F public school teachers.


2 posted on 02/02/2022 8:18:41 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: rrrod

K95 Masks?? As Made in China?


3 posted on 02/02/2022 8:20:25 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

only one way to be sure of an airtight fit

duct tape the masks to their faces


4 posted on 02/02/2022 8:20:58 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: rrrod

“F public school teachers.”
Figuratively only, of course. What discerning person would actually come close to such ill educated morons who wouldn’t be allowed in a public school classroom back when public schools were actually pretty good?


5 posted on 02/02/2022 8:22:49 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are N-95 masks and KN-95 masks, but I’ve never heard of K95 masks.


6 posted on 02/02/2022 8:23:15 AM PST by nagant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cesar Chavez School? insert eyeroll here


7 posted on 02/02/2022 8:23:17 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

You can imagine the curriculum at those schools, no?


8 posted on 02/02/2022 8:28:04 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I got your mask option.

An option to wear one or not.


9 posted on 02/02/2022 8:31:22 AM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Forget it Jake.....it’s Portland


10 posted on 02/02/2022 8:34:32 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

99% of teachers are low-IQ and completely ignorant. This is just pure virtue signally without any science. For the best masks to be effective they need to be worn in hospital environments and replaced every 2 hours.


11 posted on 02/02/2022 8:36:40 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Two weeks to slow the spread of communism.)
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To: OHPatriot

I have one in my car hanging on the turn signal stalk. Used one time. E-bay maybe? Kinda vintage. Been there over a year. For emergencies.


12 posted on 02/02/2022 8:41:56 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They live in a damn bubble. While the entire world is waking up to the fact that the new strains are the vaccine, while being far less harmful, these idiots act as though nothing has changed or has become worse. ...on top of the evidence growing about fake numbers and very real treatments.

This is all about control and the abuse of power. Parents should just put their foot down, everyone send their kids to school without masks and refuse to eat outside. They only have the power if you give it too them. They won’t suspend everyone.


13 posted on 02/02/2022 8:50:04 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

You can imagine the curriculum at those schools, no?
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Durring the year long Portland riots nearly a 1/4 antifa arrested were Portland teachers.


14 posted on 02/02/2022 8:51:18 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“They’re surgical masks or they’re masks, especially at our elementary schools, they’re paper masks that don’t fit well at all. So, even when I do the little trick where you tie each side, and you push the dimples on the side so it can fit for a lot of the elementary school students, it does not fit well,” Aurelian Boudreaux said.

This teacher has zero concept of just how small viruses are and the fact the virus is airborne. Well fitted or not, the mask is not going to work.


15 posted on 02/02/2022 8:54:16 AM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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K95 Masks?? As Made in China?

Yup. Think K = knockoff


16 posted on 02/02/2022 8:54:51 AM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Child abuse - the kids do not need the masks.


17 posted on 02/02/2022 9:06:02 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It cracks me up this is happening at schools named for civil rights leaders. Irony is so ironic.


18 posted on 02/02/2022 9:08:28 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: nagant

"K9 Canine mask"

19 posted on 02/02/2022 9:09:33 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

... those are also rather docile dog breeds.

My Aussie would NEVER put up with that....

But he’s NOT an Aussie politician...


20 posted on 02/02/2022 9:10:56 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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