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More schools continue to announce they’re going “mask optional” in classrooms

More schools have announced they’re going “mask optional” in the classroom.

That includes John Glenn schools starting on Monday, Feb. 21. Goshen and Bremen schools, starting on Tuesday, Feb. 22 and Mishawaka schools on Wednesday, Feb. 23.

Masks will still be required on school buses for both daily transportation and extracurricular transportation, due to a federal mandate that’s in effect for all public and mass transportation.

Students and staff will also no longer be required to quarantine if they are a close contact unless they have symptoms or test positive for COVID.

All Indiana schools are no longer being required by the state to quarantine students who’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19. Also, no more contact tracing–and positive test results will no longer have to be reported to the state health department. The department is recommending that students or staff members who test positive isolate for five days and wear a mask for ten days when around others–at home or in public.

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Charles U Farley February 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm

The marching orders from their DNC overlords is in: back away from the mask mandates or we will lose the midterms!

Too late, I don’t think people are going to forget the leftist tyranny by November…

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