“However I also want to respect the people who have been putting in the work to do all this, and give them time and opportunity to come up with that plan.”Īrlington Memorial High School teacher Brian Howe said the “overwhelming majority are requesting the board follow recommendations from the Agency of Education AOE to require masking until we get further recommendations or we reach that 80 percent threshold.”īut a number of parents said the damage being done to young children by masking, in learning language and social skills, cannot be ignored or allowed to continue. “My personal opinion is it is time to move to personal choice and time to allow parents to have that choice,” Wilkins said after other board members, parents and educators had weighed in. But consensus grew around allowing school officials to plan for choice – and spending the next few weeks monitoring the current drop of COVID case rates, mindful that new cases have fallen dramatically before, only to rise again.
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