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LACY LAKEVIEW, Tex. When classes began a couple of weeks ago, before the first and then the second teacher at Connally Junior High School died of covid-19, only a scattering of students wore masks. On Tuesday morning, every face emerging from the line of yellow school buses was covered.
Masks are now mandatory for students and staff in the Connally Independent School District, on the outskirts of Waco. The decision, made late last week, followed the two teacher deaths and a surge of cases in the community.
As educators, it is our duty to keep our students safe and healthy. We feel instituting a mask mandate is a step towards doing this, Superintendent Wesley Holt said in a letter to parents.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in May barred Texas school districts and other governmental entities from requiring masks, saying it should be a matter of personal choice. But as this school year began, with the highly contagious delta variant bearing down, several big-city school districts defied him. Then a court put his order on hold.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-school-districts-mask-up-following-covid-deaths-of-two-middle-school-teachers/ar-AAOcwT6
Republicans are not the pro-life party.
tanyev
(42,360 posts)But its obviously not working.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Can't have educated people pointing out the damned truth; it gets in the way of the plot.