Feb 7, 2023Liked by Restore Childhood, Nikki M. Johnson, MD, DNBPAS, Denise Champney
The refusal of my son’s teachers to show their faces to their students at this juncture, feels like similar messaging “you are not important enough to see my face or smile”. Please do not let up on the DOE language that encourages masks at school. We need to continue to rewrite the messaging around teachers and masks. I walk by Horace Mann preschool every day and most teachers are in masks.
It is a heartbreaking reality that not enough people are talking about. I agree with Rebecca regarding the need to rewrite the message on masking. Many people are convinced that they "do something" and I have seen/heard teachers wearing masks or making sick children (i.e.kids with a cold) wear mask when there is no evidence they work....
The refusal of my son’s teachers to show their faces to their students at this juncture, feels like similar messaging “you are not important enough to see my face or smile”. Please do not let up on the DOE language that encourages masks at school. We need to continue to rewrite the messaging around teachers and masks. I walk by Horace Mann preschool every day and most teachers are in masks.
It is a heartbreaking reality that not enough people are talking about. I agree with Rebecca regarding the need to rewrite the message on masking. Many people are convinced that they "do something" and I have seen/heard teachers wearing masks or making sick children (i.e.kids with a cold) wear mask when there is no evidence they work....