Students returning to the St. Helena Unified School District next Wednesday will find full classrooms, a new principal, a new athletic director, and mandatory masking indoors â but not outdoors.
Requiring masks indoors only is consistent with updated guidelines issued in July by the California Department of Public Health, which recommended making outdoor mask-wearing optional. During the last school year, masks were required indoors and outdoors except when eating.
Superintendent Marylou Wilson said the district encourages staff and students 12 and over to get vaccinated as soon as possible, but it canât require vaccination.
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Thanks to COVID-19, the city of Napa Parks & Recreation Services Department is unable to host recreational swim hours at local pools, said Katrina Gregory, city of Napa recreation manager.
The pandemic caused the city to severely cut its recreation budget, she explained.
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The only public swimming choices are lessons for kids learning to swim. Unlike in past years, the Napa High School pool will not be open this summer for drop-in, recreational swimming. The pool at Harvest middle school is being used for learn-to-swim lessons only. Other NVUSD pools remain off-limits to the public.
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The St. Helena Unified School District is poised to become Napa County’s first school district to make the promotion of social justice and equity one of its core goals.