As students' and parents' frustration on masks grows louder, schools take the heat for enforcing state's mask mandate
Some San Diego County school district leaders are pleading for help as they bear the brunt of families’ discontent over the state’s indoor school mask mandate, which at this point has no expiration date.
“I’m just really sick of all the masks,” Addy Spangler, 12, who refused to wear a mask at her school, Aviara Oaks Middle School in Carlsbad Unified, said on Sunday. “If Newsom doesn’t have to wear a mask, I don’t see why we have to.” Masked students line up for their first day of school last July at Enrique S. Camarena Elementary School in Chula Vista.
“Our teachers, principals and staff are between a rock and a hard place. They just want to teach ... They don’t want to fight battles about statewide mandates,” Churchill said. “But ... they’re the ones asked to enforce the rules and they are far more accessible than any of the statewide decision-makers.”that they have a legal duty to enforce the mask mandate and if they don’t, they will face “significant legal, financial and other risks.
And the state has refrained from saying that schools have to exclude students from class to comply with the mask mandate — in fact, the state doesn’t say anything about how schools should enforce the mandate, which has also frustrated school leaders.
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