A policy change approved at Monday s school board meeting means Milton School District students and staff will have the option to wear COVID-19 masks in schools starting at 4 p.m.
MILTON
Students entering seventh through 12th grade in the Milton School District now have the option to learn fully digitally. Applications for enrollment in the new Milton Wired program for the upcoming 2021-22 school year are due Aug. 15.
Tara Huber, principal at the Milton Edgerton Community Alternative School, explained how the new program will work this coming school year. She made her presentation to members of the curriculum committee of the Milton School Board on Tuesday.
She said the new program will allow students to access curriculum in an alternative format and will have flexibility to learn in a way that best meets their needs. The students will take classes asynchronously through Milton schools programming and online platforms. Other core course curriculum will be offered through the online learning program Edmentum.
MILTON
A group of parents asked the Milton School Board on Monday night to lift the districtâs mask mandate for students, saying the time had come and that the danger of contracting COVID-19 was minimal.
Superintendent Richard Dahman said later in the meeting the district would keep the mask mandate in place through the end of the school year, although no decision had been made about summer school or the fall semester.
The speakers called themselves Milton Parents for Mask Choice. Their Facebook group listed 55 members.
Dan Defore, 4451 Red Oak Trail, said the district does not have the legal authority to require masks.
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