Despite COVID precautions schools are taking across the country, by having crowded, unmasked lunchrooms, are they actually gaslighting students?
that CDC guidance for schools is outdated because it fails to account for the extremely contagious delta variant.
Even so, the CDC’s current advice to prevent transmission of COVID-19 flat out contradicts the school cafeteria as safe. From the CDC website last updated May 7, 2021, “Prevention of COVID-19 transmission includes physical distancing, community use of well-fitting masks , adequate ventilation, and avoidance of crowded indoor spaces. These methods will reduce transmission both from inhalation of virus and deposition of virus on exposed mucous membranes.
Students’ realities have been distorted. Recipients of gaslighting often describe feeling as if they are going crazy because their real experiences become surreal experiences. Gaslighting destabilizes a person’s sense of truth and reality and leads to an inability to trust oneself to make good decisions, disorientation, and a vulnerability to interpretations of facts by those with more power.
If we are going to continue to have students eat in their lunchrooms at school in the midst of high community transmission rates, we need to face some uncomfortable truths. As in the film Gaslight, the school systems, in remaining silent about the lunchroom experience, have undermined students’ sense of truth about how the virus spreads. No wonder our kids are
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