'The key to keeping schools open is to fight the virus, not capitulate to it,' writes the Editorial Board. 'Yet, with last week’s action to void mask mandates in Salt Lake and Summit counties, and this week’s HB183, lawmakers have unilaterally disarmed.'
A sign regarding masks at Franklin Elementary School in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021.still-booming COVID-19 pandemic
But the only power center that matters in Utah, the Republican supermajority in the state Legislature, is determined to keep schools open without caring if they are safe. Which means that many schools will not be safe and, even if officially open, largely empty, with many children missing out yet again.
Utah legislative leadership’s apparent position is that doing anything to slow the spread of this often fatal disease is too much bother, so it is just as well that everyone just go ahead and get sick, get better, or die.a bill that flew through both chambers of the LegislaturePublic schools in Utah were starting to make progress with a tactic called Test to Stay. Those who test negative can go about their normal routines. Those who test positive, or refuse the test, go home.
Gov. Spencer Cox should promptly veto HB183. If he doesn’t, or if his veto of the bill is overridden, Utah school districts will not be allowed the flexibility they need to shift to remote learning when case rates rise.
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