Anti-mask protesters again lined the streets outside the Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 administration offices Wednesday despite concerns from parents about the safety of students arriving at a neighboring school.
More DuPage County schools requiring students to mask up Parents and students rallied in Aurora over the weekend to call for a mask mandate in schools. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Updated 8/3/2021 8:03 PM
A growing number of DuPage County school districts and colleges will require students and employees vaccinated or not to wear masks when classes start later this month.
Several elementary school districts are the latest to embrace indoor masking rules, falling in line with state and federal health guidelines.
The school year is fast approaching as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus takes hold across the state, and children under 12 are still not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Parent Stephanie Clark said the recent decision by the District 41 (D41) school board to engage with the Learning 2025 program introduces the district to equity training similar to Critical Race Theory.
“People should be outraged. The board literally spent four minutes discussing this and said it was tied to the social and emotional development of our kids. That was it. They’ve slipped in a critical race theory curriculum without anybody knowing,” Clark told
DuPage Policy Journal.
In an email to parents, former D41 school board president Erica Nelson said current D41 school board president Robert Bruno and others are inserting diversity teaching to Glen Ellyn District 41.