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On a Tuesday evening in May, third-grade teacher Clara Yanez and second-grade teacher Jackie Gonzalez stood in front of their board of education and asked them to count little plastic
School districts are finally back in session after a rollercoaster of closing and reopening last year. However, during this comeback, the pandemic has caused staffing shortages across Kern County schools.
Students Without Masks Can’t Be Kept Out of Classrooms, Educators Say Students can’t be banned from school campuses for refusing to wear a mask during the upcoming curricular year, educational leaders say. “The state wants to continue the mask mandate, but there’s no way to enforce it,” San Ardo Union Elementary School District Superintendent Catherine Reimer told The Epoch Times. “For school districts, we have something in the education code that you used to be able to suspend or send kids home for defiance. If they’re not going to wear the mask, that would ultimately be an a...