[ti:Face Covering Requirements End, But Some US Parents Are Worried]
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[00:00.04]Major school districts around the United States
[00:03.76]are permitting students to attend class without face coverings
[00:08.20]for the first time in nearly two years.
[00:11.28]The rules relating to face coverings, or masks,
[00:15.60]have caused fights among educators, school boards
[00:19.48]and parents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
[00:24.56]New York City is the largest school district in the country.
[00:28.36]It ended its mask requirement on March 7.
[00:32.16]Philadelphia lifted its school mask requirement on March 9.
[00:37.24]It joined other big cities such as Houston and Dallas
[00:42.12]that made similar moves in the past week.
[00:45.88]Chicago schools ended their mask requirement Monday.
[00:50.52]Parents, teachers and school leaders all must balance the new rules.
[00:56.40]Some families are happy that their children no longer have to wear masks.
[01:01.36]But others say they are still worried
[01:04.24]and are urging their children to continue wearing face coverings for now.
[01:09.84]Educators are caught in the middle.
[01:12.28]In Anchorage, Alaska, top school official Deena Bishop
[01:17.52]says lifting the mandate in the city's nearly 100 public schools
[01:22.16]was a welcome change.
[01:23.80]She said there were months of arguments over masks.
[01:28.64]"So I'm glad that we've taken that fight away
[01:31.72]...and now we can go back to focus on learning," Bishop said.
[01:37.32]Falling COVID-19 infection rates and new federal health recommendations
[01:42.80]are leading states to drop the requirements.
[01:46.12]The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[01:49.68]recently issued new guidelines saying most healthy Americans,
[01:54.68]including students, can safely stop wearing masks.
[01:59.40]But those who disagree about ending school mask requirements
[02:03.64]often point to low vaccination rates among American children.
[02:08.28]Only about 25 percent of children ages 5 to 11
[02:13.16]have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
[02:17.12]Just 58 percent of children ages 12 to 17 are vaccinated, the CDC says.
[02:25.52]New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois and Delaware
[02:30.16]recently lifted their statewide school mask requirements.
[02:34.12]New Jersey and Rhode Island officially dropped theirs last Monday.
[02:40.76]California, Oregon and Washington
[02:43.92]all dropped their statewide mandates on March 12.
[02:48.60]In many places, the decisions are being made at the local school district level.
[02:54.80]Officials in many large cities, such as Boston, Los Angeles
[02:59.16]and Washington, D.C., have said they will keep mask rules for now.
[03:05.12]Officials say that could change if vaccination rates rise among their students
[03:10.68]or if they can reach agreements with teachers unions.
[03:14.32]Unions have been strong supporters of keeping the mask requirements in place.
[03:20.36]Chicago schools announced last week
[03:23.08]that masks will no longer be required starting March 14.
[03:27.80]The city's teachers union then promised to take officials to court.
[03:33.08]They said the move will break an agreement with the district
[03:37.24]to keep the mask rule through the end of the school year.
[03:41.48]In New York City, elementary school student Jack Jalaly
[03:46.08]stopped wearing his mask when they became optional.
[03:50.56]For children, "it's really great
[03:52.80]because you can see the way words are pronounced
[03:55.76]and you can see spellings," said Jack's mother, Andrea.
[04:01.20]But third-grad student Derrick Carter-Jacob
[04:04.48]kept his mask on even after New York removed the requirement.
[04:10.60]"Leave it on. There's no reason for him to take it off
[04:14.36]until basically everybody is safe," said his parent, Michael Jacob.
[04:20.36]John Bracey is a Latin teacher at Belmont High School
[04:24.32]near Boston, Massachusetts.
[04:26.60]He said he will keep wearing his mask through the end of the academic year,
[04:31.48]even if district officials decide to end the mandate.
[04:36.64]"I have major concerns on so many levels," Bracey said.
[04:41.32]"I just can't find a public health or moral justification for removing them."
[04:48.76]Melissa Bello is a parent in Needham, Massachusetts, outside Boston.
[04:55.00]She said her two children were among those
[04:58.04]who happily removed their masks last week.
[05:02.24]She said her 8-year-old son has hearing loss
[05:05.56]and has had trouble understanding what people are saying when they wear masks.
[05:11.60]"He's working harder every day in school and coming home more tired," Bello said.
[05:17.64]"There's not enough consideration for those kinds of tradeoffs in these mask mandates."
[05:25.04]I'm Dan Novak.
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