An elementary school in Maryland has reinstated mask requirements for students. Clay Travis broke the news with a post showing the letter from the Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Silver Spring, a wealthy DC suburb.
“A DC area elementary school — Montgomery County, Maryland — is reinstating a mask mandate — N95’s — for third graders over a few kids testing positive for covid,” Travis said. “Here’s the letter. They’re coming with masks for your kids again. Get ready. Read this insanity.”
The letter addresses parents of students in one specific classroom, and tell parents that it “is to inform you that 3 or more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in [redacted] class in the past 10 days. We are taking the following steps to keep our school environment as safe as possible for in-person teaching and learning.”
The school told The Post Millennial that they send “test kits to classroom teachers and then teachers send it out to all students.” The tests, a representative said, get sent home “regardless” of if they have been asked for my parents. However, testing is not mandatory, nor is reporting, the representative said.
“We have lots of students who get sick and if parents want to know if their kids get sick from flu, or Covid, they have the test,” the representative said. Rosemary Hills School emphasized that “testing is not mandatory, but all parents should report it.”
The letter that was sent home to parents by principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy continued that “to prevent further transmission” in that classroom:
“Additional KN95 masks have been distributed and students and staff in identified classes or activities will be required to mask while in school for the next 10 days, except while eating or drinking. Masks will become options again following the 10-day period.
“At-home rapid test kids will be sent home and made available for students,” Kennedy states, giving the guidance from the CDC that testing should be done “5 days after an exposure (starting day 6)” or at such time as symptoms occur.
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Approved ~ MJM
