Skip to main content Currently Reading Schools want to follow health rules, but say they first need to know what the rules will be Samantha McDaniel Ogletree, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail To mask or not to mask? That’s just one question for which school officials have few answers as they prepare for the coming academic year. With the reopening of the state following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, school officials are left to prepare for the 2021-22 school year without much information on what pandemic-related safety precautions will be required. Current guidelines for schools remain the same as at the close of the 2020-21 school year, Triopia Community Unit School District 27 Superintendent Adam Dean said.