Weare school board member wants to make masks optional for students
Granite State Panel survey on masks by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center spearson
Granite State Panel survey on masks by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center spearson
Weare Middle school on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Elizabeth Frantz
Published: 4/21/2021 3:47:46 PM
Granite Staters are divided over Gov. Chris Sununu’s decision to end the state-wide mask mandate, including one school board member in Weare who has proposed ending the mask requirement within the school district.
The same week schools returned to five-day-a week in-person learning due to Sununu’s executive order and days after the governor lifted the state-wide mask mandate, Weare school board member Rochelle Kelley proposed changing the district’s mask mandate to make face coverings in schools optional rather than a requirement for students. Currently in Weare, masks are requi
Weare School Board won’t delay deliberative session
Published: 2/4/2021 4:52:24 PM
The deliberative session for the Weare School District will happen two weeks from now after the school board declined Wednesday to delay it until April, the latest step in this complex tale of scheduling annual meetings during the pandemic.
The move comes as a state representative is questioning whether School District Moderator Luther Drake acted in accordance with state law in using multiple 72-hour delays to push the meeting from Feb. 3 to Feb. 17.
Communities throughout the state are wrestling with whether, and how, to change annual meeting schedules in hopes that increased vaccination and warm weather allowing better ventilation will make in-person gatherings safer and draw more voters.