Ricardo Coronado, Idaho News 6
Posted at 6:43 PM, Aug 03, 2021
and last updated 2021-08-03 23:43:15-04
BOISE, Idaho â The Boise School District Board of Trustees approved a plan to require face coverings for all students and staff regardless of vaccination status.
All trustees who were present voted to approve the plan.
The Boise School District administration recommended to reinstate face coverings indoors for all students, staff and visitors regardless of vaccination status. The recommendation also states masks will only be required outside for large gathering. Everything we are hearing is the more we can get vaccinated, the better our chances are of not having to wear face coverings and to be able to have in-person learning, Roberts said. Our biggest fear is to have to go back to remote learning, we do not want to do that.
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Giddings, Scott and Shephard did not respond to requests for comment.
Beth Oppenheimer, executive director of the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, was taken aback by the arguments.
After 10 years with the organization, Oppenheimer said she has “seen and heard it all” when it comes to child-care policy in Idaho. She was expecting the arguments against working moms.
“Every time we try to advance more efforts in regard to child care, licensing and regulations, we get, ‘The children should be at home with their mothers,’ ” Oppenheimer said.
But she was particularly taken aback at how lawmakers were using culture-war rhetoric to block a child-care grant.
A state GOP lawmaker in Idaho apologized this week for making "misguided" and "sexist" remarks about mothers while coming out against a federal grant going to fund child care a