> You're likely getting into ADA territory there. Masking during a pandemic to permit at-risk kids to continue to go to school sounds very much like a "reasonab

> You're likely getting into ADA territory there. Masking during a pandemic to permit at-risk kids to continue to go to school sounds very much like a "reasonable accommodation" of the sort schools are required by law to provide. I agree it is a reasonable accommodation, but also cannot imagine sending my own kid to in-person school if they were one of the rare high-risk kids, especially before vaccination was an option. Masking helps over a population, absolutely, but if you're a particular person who's prone to and weak against infection, the way it's been spreading in school even with masking—yikes. Masks and the (mostly lame and questionable, for the simple reason that doing better would have meant building new schools—I saw some hilariously pointless and even alarmingly counterproductive guidelines forwarded from teachers I'm friends with) distancing practices aren't anywhere near sufficient for that case, IMO. OTOH, lots of people don't have the option to stay home and watch a high-risk kid. So masking it is (again, I am mostly very in favor of it!) but man, that sucks for those kids and their parents.