Like most high schools, though, North Paulding has a dress code that reads, “The school administration reserves the right to alter the dress code for special occasions or extracurricular activities.” So here we have a school that maintains it can absolutely control female students who want to wear tank tops, but that mandating masks during a global pandemic is out of the question. And now, just weeks after opening, the school is closed again because students and staff are sick with COVID-19.
Staff and administrators say that the closure will be used to thoroughly clean and disinfect the school, as if that will solve this problem.that COVID-19 is an airborne disease, and you’re much more likely to catch it from a person talking, coughing, sneezing, or breathing without a mask than from an infected surface. But sure. Clean the school and then let all the maskless kids back in. We will probably be seeing another closure in the very near future.