CDC continues to recommend masking and physical distancing as key prevention strategies. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
However,‼ if school administrators decide to remove any of the prevention strategies for their school based on local conditions, they should remove them one at a time and monitor closely (with adequate testing through the school and/or community) for any increases in COVID-19 cases. Schools should communicate their strategies and any changes in plans to teachers, staff, and families, and directly to older students, using accessible materials and communication channels, in a language and at a literacy level that teachers, staff, students, and families understand.
New CDC guidance does NOT STOP local control on masks optional policy! Stay the course and hold firm! #unmaskthechildren
➡️✔️By not allowing optional mask you take away the power from th parents to make decions & YOU take it upon your self to make the health decison for thier child. Therefore since you have been granted the option of mask or mask option by the JB Pritzker-ISBE-CDC-IDPH , Now if a student vaccinated or not test postive that will fall on School BOE because unlike last year? This year you have been granted a choice to one or the other #1 choose to not let the parenst the tax payers have the control of thier child while in school. #2 You take the control over the health of their chold while in school, Keep in mind ifyou choose to now allow the parents to make the choices on masking, You BOE can be held accountable for any that test positive vaccine or not, By allowoing the parents to be giving a option? Then the blame goe solely on the parenst no one else, You decide. GIVE THE POWER TO THESE PARENTS TO MAKE THEIR DECISION
➡️ In the underlined links below is a list of districts & reasons so far for making a change in the new school year..⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Any policy that requires un-vaccinated students to utilize facial shield or mask is a violation of F.E.R.P.A.
According to the Joint Guidance on the Application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) And the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) To Student Health Records: “The term ‘education records’ is defined to mean, with certain exceptions, those records that are: (1) directly related to a student, and (2) maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(A); 34 CFR § 99.3 (definition of “education records”). For instance, a student’s health records, including immunization records, maintained by an educational agency or institution (such as by an elementary or secondary school nurse) would generally constitute education records subject to FERPA.”
It shall be unlawful for any person, public or private institution, or public official to discriminate against any person in any manner, including but not limited to, licensing, hiring promotion, transfer, staff appointment, hospital, managed care entity, or any other privileges, because of such person's conscientious refusal to receive, obtain, accept, perform, assist, counsel, suggest, recommend, refer or participate in any way in any particular form of health care services contrary to his or her conscience. (Source: P.A. 90-246, eff. 1-1-98.)
➡️Discrimination Definition-the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.
Read the second and third sentences of the second paragraph of the ISBE press release. This is an acknowledgment that CDC guidelines allow for local districts to make their own choices.
Jon j Kerr“Masks provided decrease oxygen inhalation not to mention we add speaking to that same environment. These masks are tracking bacteria, mold, moisture…the masks were visually soiled and omitted offensive odors.”
"(Masks)don’t work and decade of trials tell us this that they are ineffective against viruses. And we’ve also heard enough about how (masks) cause a lot of harm.”
"There is no scientific data that actually proves that masks stop the spread of Covid-19. Nothing. They contain pathogens, they contain bacteria, disease, virus and all kinds of things."
➡️ Bill Status of HB4083 Amends the School Code. Prohibits the State Board of Education, school districts, and elementary and secondary schools from requiring the teachers, other staff, or students of a school to wear a face mask due to the COVID-19 public health emergency disaster declared by the Governor pursuant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Effective immediately.
