Schools expected to decide masking requirements; Parents push for choice Protesters lined up outside the Stafford County School Board meeting on July 27, 2021. [Photo by Uriah Kiser/PLN]
Public school students in our area will head back to class in about two weeks, and the majority of school systems in our region have yet to tell parents whether or not their child will be forced to wear a mask indoors.
Prince William County
Officials in the state’s second-largest school division said the system’s new superintendent, Dr. Latayna McDade, who is in the midst of navigating her first 100-day honeymoon phase would be the one to make the call as to whether or not your child will need to wear a mask.
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Farmers cite environmental and safety concerns. It also would tie Hopkins Park to fossil fuels and, according to one senator,‘ threatens to replace the last community of African American farmers in Illinois.’
Parents slam Prince William County schools equity policy, call it racist Amanda Ballard, of Haymarket, asked Prince William County school leaders for changes to the division s new equity policy, saying children should be judged on the content of their character, not their skin color.
Parents slammed the Prince William County School Board for its approval of a new equity statement that overhauling the content, and the methods of how children are taught, addressing disparities between the schools in the division, and hiring new teachers based on race.
The statement calls for teachers and school personnel to identify their implicit biases an assertion that people base decisions on both past experiences, and racial bias. Last fall during a joint meeting with the School Board, three Prince William County Supervisors walked out of a joint implicit bias training in protest, linking the training to critical race theory, a practice banned from the federal workplace under the Tru