The Reeds Spring School District is not changing its name.
Superintendent Cody Hirschi surveyed the community about the idea, which had been recommended by the district s strategic planning committee.
The 1,700-student district announced Monday that more than 4,400 filled out online or paper surveys, indicating high interest in the topic.
However, only 16 percent were open to the idea. The other 84 percent opposed altering the district s name.
The district issued a statement: The Reeds Spring School District appreciates all of the passion and pride shown by our community.
The committee floated the idea of the name change because the district serves families living in Reeds Spring, Cape Fair, Branson West, Kimberling City and Indian Point. The idea was to find a new name that better reflected the area.
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District reinstates mask mandates after students get sick
April 30, 2021
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REEDS SPRING, Mo. (AP) A southwest Missouri school district that dropped its mask mandate earlier this month has decided to reinstate it after several students became infected with COVID-19, leading to dozens of quarantines.
The 1,700-student Reeds Spring district had gone weeks without a positive case when it decided to make masks optional beginning April 22. Several other districts in the Springfield-area also have ditched mask orders in recent weeks, the Springfield News-Leader reports.
“It’s getting harder and harder to even get kids to keep those masks on as they are seeing people, adults and everyone in the community, not wearing masks,” Superintendent Cody Hirschi said in a video at the time.
Missouri district reinstates mask mandates after students get sick
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Pupil Moritz is on his way to the first day at his new school in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Students in North Rhine-Westphalia will have to wear face masks at all times due to the coronavirus pandemic as they return to school this Wednesday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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REEDS SPRING, Mo. â A southwest Missouri school district that dropped its mask mandate earlier this month has decided to reinstate it after several students became infected with COVID-19, leading to dozens of quarantines.
REEDS SPRING, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri school district that dropped its mask mandate earlier this month has decided to reinstate it after several students became infected with COVID-19, leading to dozens of quarantines.
The 1,700-student Reeds Spring district had gone weeks without a positive case when it decided to make masks optional beginning April 22. Several other districts in the Springfield-area also have ditched mask orders in recent weeks, the Springfield News-Leader reports.
“It’s getting harder and harder to even get kids to keep those masks on as they are seeing people, adults and everyone in the community, not wearing masks,” Superintendent Cody Hirschi said in a video at the time.