Michigan’s Board of Education has approved a resolution that supports allowing local school districts to make “scientifically informed decisions” about whether to mandate COVID-19 masks for all students, teachers and visitors.
School begins next week, but some KISD parents, like Aya Fubara Eneli, aren't ready to send their kids back to the classroom knowing some children will not be masking up.
members strong comprised of faculty staff, from all across the state and they believe after hearing the governor say that essentially it s up to people on an individual basis to do what s right and to limit the spread of the virus. they absolutely feel like their resources are being limited and here s what she had to say about the coming of school here in just a few weeks. take a listen. at this time, local school districts cannot create rules for safety for their school districts. we don t want our student that is a statistic that is going to die because we didn t have masks in school. we want every precaution available to keep everybody safe. and the governor has said that he believes that if a parent wants their child to mask up they can certainly give that child a mask to go to the classroom, but as of rid now, if a school district and they say
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you mentioned masks in school. it will be a localized decision, here for example they were used to masks in school all of last year. so the high school behind me will likely still have masks in the coming year, geoff. cal, is l.a. county a blueprint? based on your reporting could we see other cities in california follow their lead? look, this is a political question, it s probably a question for the governor of california. there are five counties in the bay area that are urging a return to indoor mask use, two in sacramento county that are urging for people to use those indoor masks. but there s no mandates yet. it will certainly be sort of a localized city to city thing, no word from the governor on whether or not we ll have it statewide. the concern is the delta variant and the large number of unvaccinated people. 98%, 98% of the new cases in hospitalizations are coming from folks who run vaccinated here in l.a. county, it s important to remind our viewers of that. gabe, down t