Kim Welch, a Wichita preschool teacher, leads a class during a half-day summer program at Cessna Elementary School.
Most school districts have either said masks won t be required when the fall semester begins, or haven t decided. That conflicts with some expert advice.
WICHITA, Kansas Overwhelmingly, the guidance from doctors and health agencies to schools weighing whether to require masks goes like this:
Unvaccinated people including elementary students, for whom the COVID-19 shot isn’t yet available should continue wearing face coverings at school.
The message comes as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread through Kansas and rage through next-door Missouri, fueling a new surge of hospitalizations. The vast majority of cases are among unvaccinated people.
Despite COVID Surge And Advice From Health Experts, Most Kansas Schoolkids Won t Have To Wear Masks
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Despite COVID Surge And Advice From Health Experts, Most Kansas Schoolkids Won t Have To Wear Masks
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The Wichita school district has developed a COVID-19 recovery plan for schools to follow when students return to the classroom in the fall. The plan was presented by Superintendent Alicia Thompson during a special meeting Wednesday with the school board.
Dr. Thompson said the guidelines were developed with input from around 8,000 stakeholders, including students, teachers, staff and people from the community. She said there is confidence that school officials have provided leadership during the pandemic, but “none of us yet have led coming out of a pandemic. There will be many lessons to be learned over the next year and we will need to practice compassion and understanding, recognizing the trauma in whatever form it may take that both staff and students may have experienced.”
Mask requirement will end soon in Wichita Public Schools
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