From ThePostMillennial.com…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was revealed on Tuesday to have previously altered their masking guidance for schools to include clear masks, after education advocates stated for over a year the harmful effects of masks on children’s speech and reading development.
While the CDC has been advocating for the importance of wearing a mask indoors and in classrooms, education advocates have stated that these masks prevent young children learning to read, and others going through speech therapy, from being able to properly learn how the structure of words.
One of these advocates, Karen Vaites of Eduvaites, who says she is a “principal-turned-curriculum-director,” stated that the September update to the masking guidelines “is interesting timing; speech pathologists have been talking about the need for masks with clear panels since early in the pandemic.”
