Posted on 08/18/2021 3:02:16 AM PDT by Libloather
A small Texas school district has made facial coverings part of its dress code, in a bid to get around Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order banning mask mandates.
The board of the Paris Independent School District, which has about 4,000 students, said in a statement Tuesday that the governor's order does not usurp its ability to manage schools.
"The Board believes the dress code can be used to mitigate communicable health issues, and therefore has amended the PISD dress code to protect our students and employees," the district said.
The measure - which read "For health reasons, masks are required for all employees and students to mitigate flu, cold, pandemic, and any other communicable diseases" - will be revisited at every monthly trustee meeting and could be changed later, The Paris News newspaper reported.
The vote was 5-1 to alter the dress code in the district, which will welcome back students on Thursday.
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The move from the school district based in the northeast Texas town of Paris comes as some districts in the state are attempting to require masks amid a Covid-19 surge and despite the governor's order.
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I cannot imagine all the parents are on board with this.
These people are power mad.
EFF ‘em.
More criminal democrat party government.
In this wording....they seem to say that masks are part of some dress code. But I don’t see the wording where you’d wear it over your mouth/nose. Couldn’t you achieve dress code success by just wearing a mask over your elbow?
“I cannot imagine all the parents are on board with this.”
Why would anyone think that PARENTS have anything to do with what goes on in those institutions?
We should make covering mouth and nose against our religion if they want to play these games.
And how is that going to stand up in court in Texas?
Especially with the Texas Supreme Court strongly conservative?
Where is the discussion on the mask ineffectiveness in preventing the spread of viruses?
So like Sharia law
Welcome back?
I would bet the students have a different opinion on the situation.
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But these little petty tyrants never considered doing this for the flu, did they? And please, don’t tell me that COVID is “more contagious”. Or “more deadly” than the flu, because it isn’t. The people in charge have simply rebranded the flu as “COVID”, and are using it as a club to beat you senseless and take away your rights.
Oh, like sharia law. Great.
I hope parents take their kids out.
What the heck is wrong with the people in Paris? Are you all a bunch of cowards? Run these bas***d school board members out of town. Paris is not big enough that they should be able to get by with this crap.
Leftists never, ever give up. They don’t stop. Kinda wish we had some actual republicans who are willing to fight them.
Wearing a mask on your elbow rather than on your face does, in proven fact, provide the very same level of protection against the communist chinese cooties.
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