Posted on 07/29/2021 6:10:43 PM PDT by CedarDave
All Albuquerque Public Schools students in kindergarten through grade 12, as well as APS staff, faculty and school visitors, will have to wear a mask while indoors on school properties.
APS Superintendent Scott Elder made that recommendation, and the school board approved it, during a board meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Elder said he made his recommendation in anticipation of the Public Education Department revising its mask mandates to conform with revised guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommended indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors at schools nationwide, regardless of vaccination status.
“We’ve said all along that we’ve tried to follow the science,” Elder said. “Since the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC recommends that all people, regardless of vaccination, wear a mask indoors, we’re recommending that, inside all APS properties, regardless of vaccination status, people wear a mask.”
Masks will not be required for outdoor events, he said. “So, if outdoor classes are held, if there are outdoor events or gatherings, people do not have to wear a mask.” That includes out-of-school sports, such as football, soccer or cross-country.
Acknowledging that the state’s public health orders still require that unvaccinated people wear a mask, Elder said, “I don’t want to turn my principals or my teachers into the vaccination patrol, so we are recommending a universal policy. We think that serves best, we think it’s easiest.”
The lone critic of Elder’s mask plan was board member Peggy Mueller-Aragón ... “I would rather that parents decide to have their children wear a mask or not wear a mask,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
The vaccine will work if you wear a mask!
The point of all this is to shut schools down again this year. More dependence on Gov and Uncle Joe on the way.
For purposes of scale, APS educates about one quarter of all students in New Mexico. The district encompasses 144 schools over 1,200 square miles. 2019-2020 enrollment was 80,100 students with about two-thirds Hispanic. APS is the largest employer in Albuquerque, providing full-time jobs for more than 12,000 people including about 5,500 teachers. The school administrative offices are housed in two high, multi-story buildings in the central Albuquerque.
See my tag line.
I would not trust the American Academy of Pediatrics to look out for the best interest of children and families. See their stance on transgenderism in children for a clue of the direction they have gone over the last few years.
If they can’t admit that biological sex is what determines whether a child is male or female they have no business telling parents that masks work.
Yep! Never trust someone who says “Follow the science!” if they also say, “Men can get pregnant!”
Child abusers
And..yes...the SOUTHERN BORDER IS STILL WIDE OPEN!
What 🐂💨💩
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