Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 8:55 pm EDT
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) – An elementary school just outside the nation’s capital plans a return to forced masking of some children in the name of COVID-19 prevention despite widespread evidence that masks do not stop the virus’s spread and that children face little to no risk.
Fox News reported that parents at Rosemary Hills Elementary School were recently sent a letter notifying them that “3 or more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in” one particular class “in the past 10 days. We are taking the following steps to keep our school environment as safe as possible for in-person teaching and learning.”
Those steps include requiring students and staff N95 in the affected classes or activities to wear N95 masks “for the next 10 days, except while eating or drinking,” with masks “becom[ing] optional again following the 10-day period,” according to the letter, which was signed by Principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy. The school is also sending COVID tests home with children.
“Our practice of recommending or requiring masking during confirmed outbreaks is the same as last year, and is in the reopening guide, mentioned in the back to
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