{"id":1561050,"date":"2022-07-19T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561050"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:49:28","slug":"they-can-opt-not-to-return-san-diego-school-board-president-speaks-on-return-of-mask-mandates-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-can-opt-not-to-return-san-diego-school-board-president-speaks-on-return-of-mask-mandates-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Can Opt Not To Return\u2019: San Diego School Board President Speaks On Return Of Mask Mandates For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-can-opt-not-to-return-san-diego-school-board-president-speaks-on-return-of-mask-mandates-for-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mask-mandate\">Mask mandates<\/a> are returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/san-diego\">San Diego<\/a> Unified School District starting Monday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/public-schools\">school board<\/a> president Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne makes no apologies for the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to monitor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> community level according to the CDC and County data and we will communicate if there are any changes in two weeks,\u201d the school district shared in a letter sent to students and parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your student is participating in summer school or other summer enrichment program[s], please send them to school or their program with a mask. If they do not have one, masks will be provided. Students and staff will be required to wear their masks while indoors only,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegounified.org\/covid-19_status#blog\">letter<\/a> continued.<\/p>\n<p>Local news station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusi.com\/san-diego-unified-president-dr-sharon-whitehurst-payne-defends-indoor-mask-mandate\/\">KUSI News<\/a> spoke with Whitehurst-Payne about the updated mandate, asking specifically what should be done if students were uncomfortable wearing masks or if parents believed the decision to mask their kids should be their own.<\/p>\n<p>She dismissed the concerns, saying the kids \u201creally should wear the mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should just make it known that they don\u2019t feel comfortable, and at that point, just not return [to school],\u201d Whitehurst-Payne continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They can go to our school that&#8217;s online. They can opt not to return to the regular school, but to go to the school where they don&#8217;t have to go to school at all other than via Zoom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sdschools?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sdschools<\/a> President Whitehurst-Payne on those who don&#8217;t want to mask.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xG9KyM9oHT\">pic.twitter.com\/xG9KyM9oHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajlamesa\/status\/1549223812280901632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She said online school or withdrawal from school are the only other choices for children who don\u2019t want to wear masks. SDUSD originally lifted its mask mandate in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the fall, there are some options,\u201d the school board president continued. \u201cThey can go to our school that\u2019s online and they can opt not to return to the regular school, but go to the school where they don\u2019t have to go to school at all other than via Zoom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the district didn\u2019t clarify whether these rules would be in place for the fall semester, Whitehurst-Payne says the mandates would remain in effect if the community is still in the moderate tier of risk set by the CDC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the school board president had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kusi.com\/sdusd-board-president-gives-updates-on-return-to-in-person-learning\/\">sung the praises<\/a> of N95 masks for kids, claiming \u201cthey feel better than the others, you can talk and breathe in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other local areas are reinstating mask mandates as well, per <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/masks-now-required-indoors-san-diego-unified-school\/story?id=87008125\">ABC News<\/a>. Naval Base Coronado and Naval Base San Diego both announced on social media that mask mandates would go into effect Monday as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Comic-Con is requiring \u201call attendee groups, including but not limited to exhibitors, guests, staff, press, professionals, volunteers, and cosplayers\u2026to wear an approved face covering regardless of vaccination status,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/07\/comic-con-health-pass-requirement-masks-1235071783\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mask mandates are returning to the San Diego Unified School District starting Monday, and school board president Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne makes no apologies for the move. \u201cWe will continue to monitor the COVID-19 community level according to the CDC and County data and we will communicate if there are any changes in two weeks,\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}