I think you're taking a puzzling stance. How do you differentiate the parent who accepts masks because of social pressure from the parent who accepts them because of sincerely held beliefs about disease transmission?
Most people don't take positions based on sincerely held scientific beliefs simply because the average person doesn't have that scientific knowledge. We get swayed by the people we trust, and so it's become a political thing. In certain places, going maskless outdoors would have you berated and called a murderer because people have taken up the masking cause with religious ferver.
Of course, the reverse is equally true.
So yes, there will be some parents who will mask their kids out of deeply held beliefs, and some that will mask their kids despite their personal preferences because of what others would say. I don't see why differentiation would make a difference.
This I agree with. Some of the parents mentioned kids with autism, Down syndrome, asthma and maybe they would prefer distance learning.
This is very surprising to me. Asthma I get, but the biggest uproar I saw about distance learning was from special needs children's parents. They were saying that remote learning was worthless, and the children need in person teaching and therapy.
