When can we stop wearing masks for school drop off/pick up?

[DipSwimSwoosh]

Standing outside, 2 metres away from each other, things opening up etc.
Does anyone know when face masks at school drop off pick up will go?

[quote herecomesthsun]@BogRollBOGOF There IS scientific justification, as we now are accumulating evidence for airborne transmission and this would support very careful use of masks.

" Reducing
airborne transmission of virus requires measures to avoid
inhalation of infectious aerosols, including ventilation, air
filtration, reducing crowding and time spent indoors, use
of masks whenever indoors, attention to mask quality and
fit, and higher-grade protection for health-care staff and
front-line workers."

from www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2.pdf[/quote]
When standing outside, socially distanced on an exposed playground for a maximum of 20 mins when there's a handful of parents waiting between staggered drop offs?
In a neighbourhood that's had no more than 4 cases in the past 6+ weeks and usually 0-2.
Where parents are of the age range to have recieved their first vaccine a month ago.

Very, very different to an enclosed environment with appropriately used, fitted and regulated masks.

I never have done.

@RoseRedRoseBlue

It’s so pointless and a real case of “being seen to be doing something”.

Quite

Nice to see how little respect some of you have for school staff. No surprises there.

We don’t even see the teachers at our son’s school at pick-up as they remain in the classroom and they send the children out one by one to walk across the playground to their parent.

Parents not wearing a mask would make zero difference to the teachers.

95% of the mums at my childrens infant school wear one. I don't as am exempt. But the headteacher has been very strict on them being worn

@LadyPenelope68

Nice to see how little respect some of you have for school staff. No surprises there.

Why? I don't go within 2m of any of the staff.

Our primary has never had masks. No one seems to social distance either. Half of parents are GP’s (that’s doctors not grandparents) so I guess they don’t consider it a risk 🤷‍♀️

It is ridiculous. Definitely fewer people wearing them overall. Most are like me, wait without it in the car park, put it in when approaching gate when it's opened so as to comply and off again as soon as out of the other gate. Then everyone piles into the field outside the school and the children all play together.

@LadyPenelope68

Nice to see how little respect some of you have for school staff. No surprises there.

Yep, I'm one of those bastard parents who would normally be helping out several times a week, and only gets in touch when necessary with a polite message, and has bought DS's laptop, special tinted exercise books etc because school don't have the budget. I've also never played teaching experience Top Trumps. I'm horrible like that.

Not sure what standing at the far end of an empty space unable to wear a mask and wishing I could have a full conversation with other waiting parents has to do with disrespecting a person on the other side of a brick wall over 20m away.

The only time I have been near any teacher is when a senior member of staff chose to help me with prising off a distressed child with ASD to steer him into the building. That was her choice. She didn't have to approach us. We have a good enough relationship that she feels safe in appropriate physical contact with my child and that I am not one of those parents that will rant of at any possible opportunity. 30 seconds outdoors is a much smaller risk than the 30 11 year olds in an undersized room and fairly restricted windows (top opening only).

It's that kind of lack of logic displayed in that comment driving me around the bend. There is far too much morality associated with some of these measures and not enough sense.

I can't wait till masks are no longer needed at pick up/drop off. It's not showing any disrespect for the staff. I haven't been within 2 metres of any of the school staff for over 12 months now! In addition I have not only had both my vaccinations, I've already had covid. So am extremely unlikely to be breathing it on anyone. In our neighbourhood there have been 0 cases for a month now and in the wider area there are 15 cases per 100,000 people. The risks are very very low now and the discomfort I personally have from wearing a mask is very high (to the point where I sometimes have to wear a visor to avoid the inevitable coughing fit I get from the mask- which does not go down well).

[quote LadyPenelope68]@Suranjeep
whether said headteacher will get compliance from the masses in the coming weeks won’t be her decision though.
Of course it’ll be her decision, we’ve a strong policy on no mask, no entry to the playground to drop off. Simple as that.[/quote]
It would be interesting to see the battle of wills as that panned out.