Editorial: At Comal ISD, science, safety of little value Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail New Braunfels Canyon High students protest Comal ISD’s recent decision to lift its mask mandate. Given the choice, the district opted to jettison the science.Robin Jerstad /Robin Jerstad When Comal Independent School District trustees voted last week to make masks optional, they undermined every person there who wants to continue science-based precautions against a pandemic. A parent of a first grader told the San Antonio Express-News she was blindsided by the last-minute email the night before the change, saying the decision came from a place of cowardice.