Starting at the end of the month, it will become optional for Anchorage School District students and staff to wear face masks.
A bulletin board in teacher Katie McDaniel’s kindergarten classroom at Huffman Elementary School. The signs remind students to wear a mask, use hand sanitizer and stay home if they’re sick.
in the state and the widespread availability of vaccines. She said omicron has shifted the focus from case numbers to hospitalizations, which have also decreased. In a letter to families on Friday, Bishop wrote that continued mandatory masking “negatively impacts our students’ education, intellectual development, and emotional well-being.” She said that affects how students develop skills like reading, which“Time and time again, our primary teachers have really highlighted for us and rung that bell that these kids are really missing out,” Bishop said.
“It does feel like a better transition would be to have masking optional after spring break,” he said. “It would give a couple extra weeks for numbers to come down. Breaks are an interesting time in Alaska because so many people choose to travel, and when we travel we’re also more exposed.”
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