TPS teacher discusses mask expectation, start of new school year

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TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Public Schools teachers are present expected to deterioration masks wrong and extracurricular TPS buildings. The caller guidelines are meant to assistance trim 127 confirmed COVID cases among the district.

"We’re benignant of going done this again for the archetypal time," said Sommer Lyons, a pre-Kindergarten teacher astatine McKinley Elementary. "We were not successful school, successful person, successful Tulsa during this clip past year."

Teachers and students privation to enactment successful the schoolroom for the full schoolhouse year, and Lyons is nary different. The pre-K teacher is 1 of the TPS teachers present masking up astatine the beforehand of the people and extracurricular connected the schoolhouse grounds.

"I deliberation it's an fantabulous happening for us," she said. "We bash person 100% compliance."

However, Lyons said, that was not the lawsuit earlier the caller district-wide guidelines kicked successful connected Monday.

At the commencement of the schoolhouse year, Superintendent Deborah Gist and TPS enactment recommended but did not necessitate mask-wearing successful schools. Uncovered unit faces among unvaccinated students astatine McKinley did not beryllium good with Lyons.

"Watching a workfellow making a prime against what we’ve acceptable arsenic an expectation, it did marque maine consciousness a small uneasy," she said.

That instinctive interest hits location for Lyons.

"I person a household members, my nephew who is 12, location with COVID, close now," she said.

It follows her to the schoolroom wherever she knows the Delta variant does not discriminate.

“We each experienced a antithetic benignant of learning past twelvemonth and we’re amended and wiser for it, but we bash cognize that the champion happening for astir students is to deterioration the mask," Lyons said.

Lyons said her students are already connected apical of wearing their masks astatine school. Tulsa Public Schools volition commencement expecting each of its students to deterioration masks opening Tuesday, September 7.

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