The Board of Education will discuss the masking situation again at next month’s business meeting. Additionally, they will call the Task Force together to come up with metrics for when
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Thomas Lott
The Cabarrus County Board of Education voted 5-2 Monday at a special called meeting to make mask wearing optional on campuses starting this academic year at CCS. Holly Grimsley, Tim Furr, Rob Walter, Laura Blackwell and Denise Adcock voted in favor of the motion, while Carolyn Carpenter and Keshia Sandidge voted against it.
What was on the table in this vote on all Cabarrus County Schools campuses included 3 feet of social distancing for all students and 6 feet for students and teachers, optional mask wearing from kindergarten through 12th grade, adopting the North Carolina Toolkit recommendations for isolation and quarantine, and mandatory masking for all bus riders.
âNine hundred and thirteen students are going to be going to the wrong school if you select the IPT recommendation,â Liz Altschuler, a parent representing the group proposing the alternative Green+ Plan said. âHow can you do that? How is that acceptable?â
âFirst of all, I want to thank everybody ⦠the staff that participated, the parents that participated, (but) I do have concerns, which I have stated numerous times,â she said. âThe problems with going over the interstate; the turns that are made. I still have my concerns with the distances that are having to be traveled.â
She continued: âI canât believe that we canât come up with something even better than the Blue Plan. That there couldnât be a better plan that could be worked out.â