One week after masks came off in CPS, Coonley Elementary School is making a return to mandatory masks in some classrooms due to a COVID outbreak.
"My understanding is kids are being tested at a pretty high rate as compared to other schools," Lynch said."You know you are going to have more positives and I think the administration here is reacting well."The Coonley outbreak does not come as a surprise to the Chicago Teachers Union. CTU was against the decision to go mask optional.
"What I think it confirms is we are not out of the woods with COVID and we are still going to get it at individual schools where we get clusters of cases," CTU President Jesse Sharkey said."Where that happens we will respond appropriately, and sometimes that means masks.""It's a little early in pandemic to be removing masks like a blanket measure in my opinion," she said,"Just because with BA.2 going around, it's a much more contagious variant.
To protect high-risk students, teachers and staff, the union is asking the school board to mandate masks at individual schools when there are outbreaks.
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