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Dear Editor:
I am a great grandmother of elementary students, and I have questions concerning Kids & COVID.
People are to wear a mask to “protect” themselves from COVID. After wearing that mask all day, at what point does the mask stop protecting the wearer, and the mask then becomes the source of infection for the wearer?
Are children riding the school bus to and from school required to wear a mask at all times? How long is that mask protecting the children? How do we know what the saturation point is?
In a district with only one bus route for all students – that is, the elementary school students, the middle school students, and the high school students – the elementary students are seated in the front of the bus, the middle school students are seated in the middle, and high schoolers are seated in the rear of the bus.
The elementary students must remain in their seats on the bus while the older students unload in the mornings.
The little kids must sit there with masks on breathing the air surrounding the older students as the older students walk up the aisle to exit the bus.
Then for the afternoon trip back home, again the elementary students are loaded first, and they must sit there breathing the air from the older students while the older students enter the bus walking pasy the elementary kids to the older students’ assigned seats.
The elementary students spend a lot of time sitting on a bus while the older students are unloading and/or loading.
Does this sound sanitary?
Jeanne Flanders
White River Township
Hamilton Heights School District