When Holliday ISD made masks optional May 10, the difference was obvious.
Smiling faces were everywhere the first day back at school without a mask requirement. School was fun that day. Everybody was able to just read facial expressions again, HISD Sjuperintendent Cody Carroll said. I think that’s a huge part of social interaction, kind of what we’re wired to do as humans.
The district was already planning a return to full normal for the 2021-2022 academic year. Then Gov. Greg Abbott s executive order Tuesday cinched it.
Abbott s order banned mask requirements in public schools, effective after June 4.
“Especially in our area, the cases are way down, and we just felt like the time was right to move forward with letting the kids get back to normal, Carroll said.
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Japanese firm has a reckoning to face
Gareth Corfield Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 14:15 UTC Share
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Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning.
Those 39 convictions were obtained by the Post Office s in-house lawyers who ignored their own barristers advice that the institution s behaviour was trampling over established prosecutorial codes intended to promote fairness and honesty.
Lord Justice Holroyde said that the one-time state monopoly had, by representing Horizon as reliable, effectively sought to reverse the burden of proof, leading to criminal defendants having to prove their innocence instead of the Post Office showing they were guilty. Its lawyers compounded this by withholding evidence from courts and defence lawyers alike – evidence which clearly showed the Post Office and Fujitsu
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