Students can remove masks at desks in Commack School District; must be on in halls, buses
President of the Commack School Board Steven Hartman says it was decided that students can take their masks off when seated at their desks, which will be 3 feet apart.
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Aug 20, 2021, 11:49 AM
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12ds agoStudents in the Commack School District will be able to take their
masks off when seat at their desk, according to the school board president.
A school boarding meeting was held Thursday on the issue of mask
requirements with the
majority of parents saying they were against the district requiring masks.
President of the Commack School Board Steven Hartman says it was
decided that students can take their masks off when seated at their desks,
which will be 3 feet apart.
In all other instances, like walking in the hall or on the bus, masks will be required
to be worn.
Hartman
says if the state implements a mask mandate, the school will follow it, but
says they will continue to advocate for local control as they have done all
along.
A mandate appears possible as Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to be
sworn in next week and has expressed a need for masks.
"I believe that we will need mask mandates
for children to go back to schools," says Hochul. "And that will have
to be universal, it will have to be statewide."
The Massapequa School District announced
Wednesday that masks will be recommended but not required in the classroom.
Other Long Island districts have already said they plan to require masks,
including Plainview-Old Bethpage, Garden City, Riverhead and Mattituck.
Manisha Ghandi, a mother of two kids in Commack schools, says she
thinks masks should be worn.
Ghandi says she thinks the district removed the
mandate too soon in the spring.
That decision only lasted one day before Gov.
Andrew Cuomo reinstated the mandate.
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