South Florida: We ask children what it is like to use a mask at school all day.This is what they said

Warning Vertisement by Lois K.Solomonsoouth Florida Sun Sentinel |Aug 27, 2021at11: 19 am

Excited to return to school after last year's quarant.

Meanwhile, adults fight: the governor with school boards, anti-máscara parents with school officials, the parents pro-mascara with state officials who have led the courts to say that the masks must be optional.

Children say they don't understand shock.

"I forgot that he is on my face," said Joel Bender, 13, eighth grade at Indian Ridge high school in Davie."Everyone is using it.If it slips, they put it again.It is silly to protest ".

Jerry O'Donnell, Professor of Science at Eagles Landing High School West Boca Mouse, agreed that children are fine: he has completed 100% with the use of masks this year.

"They see us using it, so they use it," said O'Donnell.

According to a recent Gallup survey, 57% of children of K-12 children are in favor of masks mandates for unaccoured students.The American Pediatrics Academy supports universal masking for all, vaccinated and not vaccinated, in schools.

"It's a bit uncomfortable, but I see it as a small price to pay," said Gabriela Carvajal, a last year student at Everglades High in Miramar."The vast majority are fulfilling.It is like a collective agreement to protect each other ".

Even so, the masks have become a huge point of discussion, especially in Florida, where Governor Ron Desantis is fighting 10 school districts, including Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade, for their mask requirements.Desantis signed an order on July 30 that said that parents should have the option that their children use a facial cover at school.

A vocal contingent continues to express its discontent with the decision of the schools in southern Florida to challenge the governor.Karen Ammar, mother of a sixth grade student who attends Beachsid Montessori Village in Hollywood, opposes mandatory masking, but said she did not try to exclude her son because “he has been indoctrinated to believe that he is hurting others when he does not use a mask".

"My biggest concern is that our children are suffering the fear of their parents and that it will affect them in the long term," said Ammar in response to a Sun-Sentinel survey about the return to school this year.“I think our children should be decided whether they use masks or not.All the mentality that we must protect the weakest among us, whether we talk about allergies to peanuts or covid, weakens us as a nation ".

Michael Ross, father of an eighth grade student in Omni Middle School in Boca MousePalm Beach County no longer allowed exemptions.Now your child meets the requirement.

"Simply use it," Ross said."It's not a rebel".

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Studies show that masks prevent respiratory droplets that spread the COVID-19 move through the air and reach other people.

“It is especially important to use a mask when it is inside with people with whom you do not live and when it does not know how to stay at least 6 feet away, since the COVID-19 spreads mainly among the people who are in close contact each".According to the Centers for the Control and Prevention of US diseases.

Schools could become an easy place to spread the covid if children have no protections.Children and adolescents speak animatedly and crowded in the halls during class changes.

"We are shoulder shoulder in the halls," said Claire Freedman, 13, eighth grade at Don Estridge High Tech Middle School in Boca Mouse.

That is one of the reasons to maintain the mandate of the masks, said the dr.Renato Berger, Pediatra de Coconut Creek.Despite the difficulty of social distancing, he said that it is essential that children are in school buildings this year.He said he had 10 patients last year who became suicide, and attributes their problems to isolation they felt during home education.

"Staying at home is not good for them," said Berger."The only solution is the mask.Children have no problem with the mask.They will imitate what parents do ".

Learning at home last year was "horrible", Luke Bartels agreed, 7, a second -degree student at Cooper City Elementary.

"Wearing a mask is nothing annoying," he said.

Even so, parents have been requesting the voluntary exclusion of mandates, despite the fact that the only allowed exemptions are for medical and special needs in Broward and for disabled in Palm Beach.

The Palm Beach Pediatric Group in Boynton Beach warned the parents recently that their doctors will not write any exemption from masks.

"Our suppliers have studied scientific data reviewed by peers and do not feel that there is any medical condition that qualifies our patient population for an exemption of medically necessary mask," the office published on Facebook."Our practice policy is not to write or prescribe exemptions from this mask mandate, even in the school environment".

Although the fulfillment of the mask seems to be almost total, Josh Decapua, a last year student at Western High, said he has fun with his companions that allow his masks to fall under his noses as a sign of challenge or indifference.

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"It's a kind of comedy," he said.“They will remove it behind the teacher's back and then they will be asked to keep it.It gets sweaty, but otherwise it does not affect me in any way ".

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