Curious for any of you who have recently dropped the mask mandate (or do not have one), how things are going?
The governor announced yesterday that as of March 1, schools no longer need to mandate masks for students, though individual school districts are allowed to decide what they want to do.
The district where my kids go dropped the mandate as of 2/7 due to the >80% Vaccine rate (their schools both have >90%). The district where I work which is right next door to where I live has a much lower rate of vaccination, so I imagine we will be keeping the mask mandate active through the end of the school year the way things are going now. Interestingly, the city itself will be dropping the mask mandate as well as the vaccine mandate for businesses March 1 so it is interesting that the schools will continue with the active mandate.
Anyway, I was just curious how things are in your schools and if life has gotten a little better or if it has made things harder. Our district will continue to do twice weekly pool testing as well as weekly take-home tests for all students and staff.
Today was our first day without masks and WHOOO BOY did the crazy come out to play. You'd think this was the first time the cows have been out to pasture since Winter. I've seen more kids today than I have in any single day since 2019.
Today was our first day without masks and WHOOO BOY did the crazy come out to play. You'd think this was the first time the cows have been out to pasture since Winter. I've seen more kids today than I have in any single day since 2019.
lots of injuries - all minor of course! It felt like they had all been reserving the sillies for the day the masks came off and just all went buckwild at recess ?. I think today is also the first day where it really feels like Spring is on its way, so that may have contributed as well!
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Today was our first day without masks and WHOOO BOY did the crazy come out to play. You'd think this was the first time the cows have been out to pasture since Winter. I've seen more kids today than I have in any single day since 2019.