When Shannon Jensen and Gina Kildahl sent their children back to their Wisconsin schools during the past school year, everyone had to wear masks. But when school resumed this fall, that was not the case even as health experts warned that masks were necessary to keep a new highly contagious coronavirus variant from sweeping through classrooms.
The school removed its COVID-19 mitigation measures before the start of the school year and the mother, along with other parents, wants these protocols reinstated.