Though many Kansas City area districts have moved away from mandates on masks, this week students in several schools are required to wear them anyway as COVID-19 cases surge. These districts still require masks temporarily if a certain percentage of students and staff in a school building either test positive for COVID-19 or were exposed to the virus. In the Shawnee Mission district, for example, the mask mandate ended in secondary schools last week as students returned from winter break. Yet as of Monday, all 11 of the district’s middle and high schools were requiring everyone to wear masks again, spokesman David Smith said, after each school reached the district’s 3% threshold to trigger a mask mandate.
Source: Joco 913 News
