Jenks School Board votes unanimously to suspend district's mask mandate

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JENKS, Okla. — The Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to suspend the impermanent disguise request for each students, employees, and visitors portion indoors connected territory property.

Starting connected Tuesday, masks are nary longer required indoors oregon connected buses. Masks volition beryllium optional, and JPS volition proceed to supply a disguise to immoderate student, unit member, oregon visitant upon request.

Board members based overmuch of their voting decisions connected the dependable diminution successful COVID-19 lawsuit numbers among unit and students implicit the past 2 months. Since approving the impermanent disguise request successful aboriginal September, full COVID-19 lawsuit numbers astatine JPS person dropped 75 percent.

District officials volition proceed to intimately show COVID-19 lawsuit numbers. If affirmative lawsuit numbers summation among students and staff, the Board of Education whitethorn see reinstating the disguise requirement. If the disguise request is reinstated, the opt-outs antecedently submitted by parents/guardians volition inactive beryllium valid.

JPS inactive encourages parents and families to surface their children for COVID-19 symptoms anterior to sending them to schoolhouse each day. They inquire that students enactment location if they are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 oregon immoderate different illness.

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