The Rancho Santa Fe School District on Monday became one of the first San Diego-area districts, and one of a few statewide, to make masks optional for students in defiance of the state’s indoor school mask mandate.
Board Vice President Annette Ross said the board is not taking masks away from students and staff who want to continue wearing them in school; instead the board is implementing a policy of mask choice.“We’re actually putting it back in the hands of the parents, which I felt was always the right thing for the children, to make choices for their children based on the knowledge they have for their children’s health,” said Ross, who is an author and who voted in support of Monday’s decision.
The state’s delay in lifting the mandate has frustrated families and school leaders, who say it’s contradictory that the state lifted the indoor mask mandate for almost all public sectors last week but kept it for schools. They note that other states have lifted school mask requirements. Nevertheless dozens of students, especially in several North County schools, have been refusing to wear masks at school. Schools haveManghani said he went into Rancho Santa Fe’s meeting willing to entertain the idea of giving staff a week to prepare and transition gradually to mask choice. But he said he felt moved to make masks optional immediately once he thought more about the fact that mask-less students were being given disparate treatment.
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