Washington Free Beacon By Alex Nester
Boston Public Schools won’t let students ditch their masks, two months after the city dropped its indoor mask mandate.
According to the school district’s COVID-19 health and safety guidelines, all “staff and students must wear a mask on school property” or while riding school buses. The mask requirement remains more than two months after the city dropped its indoor mask mandate. Some parents are frustrated by the inconsistency.
“Enough is enough. You can go to City Hall or catch a game at the Garden without masking, but our kids are mandated to wear masks all day in school while trying to learn,” Joy McDonald, the mother of a student in the district, told the Washington Free Beacon. McDonald worries that mask mandates are stunting students academically and socially, adding, “It’s not fair to impose this on our youth.”
School districts across the country dropped their mask mandates in 2021. Even holdout districts in deep-blue cities such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., dropped mandates this spring. Researchers determined as early as January 2021 that COVID transmission in school settings is “extremely rare.”
