Face masks for Secondary Pupils in classrooms

[FatPatty]

I can’t see this being reported anywhere but the Daily Fail are reporting masks to be worn in Secondary schools for first few weeks back.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9287275/Secondary-school-pupils-wear-face-masks-lessons-weeks-school-return-March-8.html

Taxtheratfarms I'm almost tempted to try that and see how many children take me seriously!

God some people are utterly bonkers.

You wanted schools open - they will be. To make it safer there will be masks. Wtf is your problem with that?

Everyone wearing a mask is known to reduce chances of transmission and viral load where transmission occurs. Why are you so angry about it?

He is in year 10 so they have been concentrating on the theory side with the hope they can start doing the practical bits soon. Hopefully as the weather will start getting betting they can go outside too as o know they've missed it.

@OhGuardian

Hopefully a lot of kids won't be bullied or brainwashed into thinking mask wearing is sensible or helps keep people healthy.

I see the evening mask fetish shift workers have arrived!

You have problems

Presumably the parents frothing about their children being muzzled will also refuse to test their children at home as per the guidance. You want schools open but don't want to have to do anything to help that happen and to keep transmissions as low as possible in order to KEEP schools open.

It's thanks to people like you that so many teens did the hokey cokey in and out of school so far this year. If we'd have had masks all along education would likely have had far less disruption.

It's such immature entitled thinking to want everything exactly as you want it and ignore the reality that it can't be.

Aah I see! The masks have to be dirty

It’s a bit strange how the shoutiest proponents of children’s welfare don’t seem to credit said children with any intelligence or common sense.

I know the teenagers I work with, we talk to them about how to use masks safely and correctly, and the vast majority listen, because they’re not dumb. We supply them with clean masks anytime they need them (whether that’s because they’ve lost theirs, or it’s damp, or their parents won’t give them one) and they know we won’t judge them.

Maybe try giving the young people in your life a bit more credit?

It's weird that the same people who tend to get all shirty when it's suggested that kids might spread covid, because it implies they're 'germy disease vectors' or whatever are now making heavy use of an argument that kids are filthy and disgusting and can't be relied on to have a clean mask.

OhGuardian - if you're so worried about the dangers of masks just don't send your kids to school. That's the response parents who are themselves vulnerable or have vulnerable children have had from all the anti mitigations of any kind types so back at you.

If you think school is an evil place where children are brainwashed by evil rubbish teachers why send them? Maybe homeschooling would suit you better.

@SpringisSpinning

Colleges only had them in corridor and most schools also only had them in corridor

Ours had them everywhere and all three local colleges did too.

I feel incredibly sad for the little girl I know who will be plunged into total isolation by this. She's been at school for months without a mask and more to the point without her peers wearing masks but now that will change.

How is a deaf child reliant upon lip reading supposed to engage in school when they can't see their class mates lips.

@ilovesooty

I think pupils will be less bothered by this than many parents. For saying it would be a good idea when opening up schools to all pupils I've been called a child abuser, a terrorist, a sicko and a dirty Nazi online today.

Nazi!!! Some people really shouldn't bred. Uneducated prats.

I'm just on the wind up. My children are grown up and I tutor!

But I hate masks, despise the unions and think the mask lovers are all bonkers.

I'm a believer in letting the kids be disease vectors mask free

Students are meant to be all facing forward anyway so they wouldn't be seeing their lips anyway. We'll make accommodations for deaf students. I only teach one deaf child currently but he uses a system where I wear a mic pack around my neck and it transmits to his hearing aids. I generally sit him at the front so that he can also read my lips.

I am assuming teachers won't wear masks when teaching a deaf student who relies on lip reading.

I feel incredibly sad for the little girl I know

Little girl suggests primary who won't be wearing masks.

Secondary schools will come up with workarounds for deaf students.

@noblegiraffe

'Criminal act against childhood' 😂

This is one of those times I agree with you. What the heck are they on?

Who do you think are mask lovers? What an absurd phrase. I haven't met anyone who loves masks. I hate them. I'm asthmatic and peri menopausal and they make me hot, breathless and anxious but needs must.

For saying it would be a good idea when opening up schools to all pupils I've been called a child abuser, a terrorist, a sicko and a dirty Nazi online today

I've seen the same aimed at headteachers who have announced on their school twitter that they'll be implementing masks in the classroom.

And people wonder why most heads stuck to the DfE guidance that said not to use them in classrooms.

@StarlightandSunlight

I wonder how lessons like drama will work? I suppose they will carry on concentrating on theory

Or go outside for practical lessons weather permitting. Then with social distancing they can take masks off

Lexiloo

The last thing any school or teacher will want is for any kids to feel isolated. At least (and I know it’s still not enough) they won’t have to wear masks at break and lunchtimes. In the classroom, her teacher could do something like giving her an iPad with a speech recognition programme that displays what someone is saying? So if her classmate puts her hand up and speaks, she’ll be able to read what they’re saying. Or it could be linked to the teacher’s whiteboard if they had the tech. I’ve had to do that for a slightly different situation and was surprised that it worked as well as it did - although I did keep having to tell the kids “Shout at the iPad! Not me!” and repeating what very quiet kids said.

It’s not ideal, but for the hopefully short period of time that all students will need to wear masks it would be a bit of a help.

(For this or better ideas to be put in place, let her parents/carers know to ask the SEN coordinator about assistive technology.)

@OhGuardian

I'm just on the wind up. My children are grown up and I tutor!

But I hate masks, despise the unions and think the mask lovers are all bonkers.

I'm a believer in letting the kids be disease vectors mask free

Whatever. It doesn't matter if a childs mask is dirty. The idea is they don't spread to others. Therefore if there is germ ridden. It is only them affected. It would still stem their viral product and act as a shield.

@StarlightandSunlight

He is in year 10 so they have been concentrating on the theory side with the hope they can start doing the practical bits soon. Hopefully as the weather will start getting betting they can go outside too as o know they've missed it.

Think yourself luck. Mine is a singer and last time I checked that was banned in school

BACTERIAL LUNG INFECTIONS.

Won't anyone think of the bacterial lung infections.

Do you know what the new guidelines sent out tonight is saying yet? I hear it is big and meaty. My lot are still working through it.

All this fuss for the sake of a few weeks. So we can get kids back to school

Do they want to wait until May then because without masks that is what would have to happen