A principal greets students as they return to New York City's public schools for in-person learning, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, at P.S. 506 in Brooklyn, New York, on Dec 7, 2020. WASHINGTON: Two days after the school board in Johnston, Iowa, decided last week to keep requiring mask wearing in schools to prevent coronavirus transmission, the state's Republican governor signed a law that immediately prohibited such mandates.
Iowa and Texas have banned school districts from requiring kids to wear masks on campus. Similar moves are under consideration in other states and local jurisdictions, spurred in part by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying on May 13 that vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks in most situations.
At the Johnston school board meeting last week, most parents spoke in favour of making masks optional, with one mother calling masking requirements for children abusive. Other parents emailed school officials asking for mask mandates to remain in place. A study published by the CDC on Friday showed that in elementary schools that required masks, transmission of COVID-19 was lower by 37 per cent than in schools where masks were optional.
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