This is good news for parents wrestling with mandatory mask mandates in the Granite State. The State Department of Education has released updated guidance on mandates and the authority to require them. Schools no longer have it, so stop requiring them.
I did say politely. They use words like Transition which means, given the timing, by the time your February recess is over, you’d best not have a mandate. That’s my take.
And before the Karens pop a booster, fearmongering domestic terror, parents can continue to punish their children by telling them to wear a mask to school. But based on the new guidance, the school can’t force mask-wearing and must back off any such policy” as quickly as possible.”
Maybe they can use mask “transition closets”? It is a place where teachers permit students to remove their masks and go maskless at school without the parents ever needing to know.
Related: The Mask Mandates on NH Children AREN’T OVER!
Yes, given the environment, they’d likely go the other way and mask the unmasked, but the Department of Education just said not to that in any school setting.
Yes, that probably means School Board meetings held in “school settings.”
It’s a big win but let’s not forget it could be temporary. Any change of the guard toward the left, and those Dems will undo that stuff and embrace facial lockdowns at the first opportunity.
Be excited but vigilant.
