California Schools To Require Masks This Fall Despite New CDC Guidelines Saying That They Are Not Mandatory
A lot of teachers here only got vaccinated so that they could return to teach in-person without masks
By Evan Symon, July 10, 2021 7:53 am
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced on Friday that children will continue to wear mandatory masks in school despite new federal guidelines saying that masks are no longer necessary in schools.
Earlier on Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that fully vaccinated teachers, students, and staff would not needs to wear masks at all K-12 schools this coming fall. While the CDC did give a few additional guidelines, such as social distancing and keeping desks at least 3 feet apart, and reiterated that people should continue to vaccinate, the announcement led many to expect pre-COVID normalization to return to schools in the 2021-2022 school year.
“Vaccination is currently the leading public health prevention strategy to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Promoting vaccination can help schools safely return to in-person learning as well as extracurricular activities and sports,” said the CDC in a statement on Friday.
However, hours after the CDC’s announcement, the CDPH gave their own announcement in which they said that masks will remain mandatory for returning K-12 students this fall, regardless of vaccination status. The CDPH will follow many of the other guidelines given by the CDC on Friday, but stressed that many schools cannot accommodate the new physical distance guidelines. Due to being unable to meet those guidelines, California opted to continue mandatory masks and a push to get more people vaccinated.
“We applaud the CDC’s commitment to ensuring that schools are fully, safely opened for in-person instruction. Given California’s science-based approach and the fact that the state’s school facilities can’t accommodate physical distancing, we will align with the CDC by implementing multiple layers of mitigation strategies, including continued masking and robust testing capacity,” said California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly in a statement on Friday. “In places where we don’t have the ability to have distancing as one of the other mitigating strategies masking is the superior form of mitigation. So starting off our school year with kids masked, coming back safely with 100% of our students able to come in person, was the key strategy.”
Dr. Ghaly also noted that having a mix of students and staffs being masked and unmasked could lead to confrontation and interference between the two groups, with the continued masking policy being a unifying policy to not single anyone out.
“Masking is a simple and effective intervention that does not interfere with offering full in-person instruction. At the outset of the new year, students should be able to walk into school without worrying about whether they will feel different or singled out for being vaccinated or unvaccinated — treating all kids the same will support a calm and supportive school environment.
“In fact, we think the CDC’s guidance gives California, as well as all other states, an opportunity to put together a plan with safety first, kids back in school, in a very mindful and contextual way.”
Mixed reaction to CDPH mandatory mask announcement
The masking announcement was met with a mixed reception of Friday, with supporters praising the CDPH for being cautious and to stop the spread of any new variants of COVID-19, with detractors saying that California’s policy is only holding back full reopening in the state and that California is just blatantly ignoring federal guidelines now.
“We want to be safe, but we also want to be normal,” said a school vice principal to the Globe on Friday, who asked to remain anonymous. “We were really hoping that California allowed the plan that allowed vaccinated people to not have to wear masks. It leads to normalization and was an incentive for people to get vaccinated. We actually had a few lessons planned on addressing the mask issue and if they should get vaccinated. Not that they have to get vaccinated, but if they should or not. Regardless on how you feel about vaccinations, it is something that needs to be addressed.”
“But now that is all out the window and instead we all have to wear masks. A lot of teachers here only got vaccinated so that they could return to teach in-person without those things, and they are beyond furious right now. I actually just got off the phone with one. It’s really a big issue.”
“They aren’t even doing this on a county by county basis, as rural schools and even bigger ones in the cities probably could meet social distancing guidelines and could forego the masks. But, as we’ve seen, the state isn’t having any of that. So we’ll all stuck with wearing masks. Beats remote learning, but still incredibly disappointing.”
It is unknown as of Friday how long the mandatory masks will stay in place for, although it is expected to remain in place for at lease part of the fall due to new surges in COVID variant cases.
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This is a completely ridiculous theatrical production full of lies. Is there anyone left who doesn’t know it by now?
Risk to children from COVID and its “variants” is virtually ZERO. Teachers and other staff are not at risk from children who, additionally, are not “carriers.” Recovery rate from COVID is now 99.9%; meaning it is not currently something for anyone to be acting like Chicken Little about. If teachers and staff are vaccinated they have nothing to fear, right? If there are teachers who do not want to go back to a classroom that is returned to normal in a fully opened-up school, terminate them and hire anew. If it is the teachers unions who are the ones pulling the strings they need to lose their power. After all, our tax-supported public schools are supposed to be about the children, right? They’ve been telling us that for years and years every time they want money, haven’t they? Well, the masks are off now, the true faces have been revealed, the school power-players are NOT about the children but about themselves. Everyone knows it now. This tragi-comedy has gone on long enough.
Delta variant is a risk to the kids. Research it.
As much as I don’t like wearing a mask; I think California is being smart and having everyone masked. How would we know who’s vaccinated and who’s not? Trust? Yeah that isn’t going to work. We live in the morning populous state and MANY of our schools are overcrowded. Masks are a a pain but the easiest thing to continue to be able to get all the kids back to
School.
I applaud California for thinking of the health of ALL ; not just the vaccinated.
Masks do nothing to stop the spread…
”research it”
You obviously don’t have kids.
Let me educate you: AMA Journal says Masks Are Bad For Your Kids. Quit Forcing Them To Wear Them.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/01/ama-journal-masks-are-bad-for-your-kids-quit-forcing-them-to-wear-them/
Masks are 100% ineffective at stopping viruses. They are rather effective at identifying anti-science leftist morons.
Stef, you have ignored or not properly researched the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses, nor are you aware of the over 99% recovery rate if one does get this flu like virus. The vectors of transmission of respiratory viruses is CONTACT. The body cannot house a viral load large enough to be contagious without having an elevated or low grade fever. If one has a fever (anything over 100) stay home, ( or as it’s called now, “quarantine”). Don’t bring your hands to your face, specifically one’s eyes and mouth, when out and about unless your hands have been washed first. I can’t remember the last time I had a cold, let alone the flu, because I have followed this habit long before this overreaction to yet another “new virus”, and have not wore any mask- ever. (Aware of our legal and constitutional rights to refuse and when needed, religious and “medical”exemption) All the facts and science is easily available to research, and prove what I have just stated. Ignorance is more contagious than this flu…
The “Delta variant” is another lie. When People start getting sick this fall and winter, it will not be from a variant of COVID-19. It will be because they were “vaccinated” With an experimental treatment, which actually was designed to impair their own innate immune system from responding to anything except COVID-19.
Look it up – but you won’t find this info on the corporate-controlled antique media.
Fire all teachers who support this.
Vote the recall !
This will not stop until we remove every single one of these people from office.
And these are our smartest? Our brightest? That we entrust to teach our children? Please!!!! Buffoonery graduates, all.
These people are NOT “bright”, they’re simply memorizing and regurgitating the same things they learned in whatever grade they’re teaching and getting paid big bucks for working 9 months a year!
This is about government control over the people and never relinquishing it all under the deception for the good of the people, meanwhile democrats are strategizing to turn country into serfdom under their tyranny.
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Teachers who get a Masters degree receive a salary raise and which then means they get a retirement pension boost. There have been many teachers in recent years who attended night class for a few weeks where they were pumped full of Marxist rot, after which they were handed a Masters. For (probably most) present-day public school teachers their whole career is about high salary and high retirement pension. No wonder most of them were happy staying home and teaching for a couple of hours a day on Zoom, and no wonder they refuse to return to the classroom now for no good reason.
Yep, and those same “teachers”, run campaigns to increase their pension/salaries, and use the theme “Its for the kids” for homeowners to up their property taxes, so they can get more money to retire on.
Yup. Median total compensation of a teacher in the state in 2019 was $118,365. Rate of increase in pay and benefits has been close to three times the rate of inflation since we raised taxes in 2012 “to fund better education” (prop 30 and 55).
Meanwhile, actual results – measured by the CA School Dashboard, NAEP and SAT results – have been flat or declining.
But, certainly, “it’s all for the kids”…
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Dr Ghaly, show me the data that supports your belief that masking is an “effective intervention” in the transmission of COVID. Show me the science, show me any studies done. And who is this anonymous principal you quoted as saying they already developed lesson plans to teach about masking and getting vaccinated?? On one hand, Dr Ghaly states everyone masking prevents “confrontation and interference” and on the other hand you are interfering with your false lesson plans, placing undue pressure on children. Parents need to take a stand. Governmental overreach!
Stacy, Thank you for your request to see the studies and data. Do you know if there is a group of parents who are organized to oppose this mandate in Los Angeles? Is emailing possible or is it deleted?
More child abuse from the woke marxist poison vaccine pushers. The “vaccine” is now a top 50 cause of DEATH. Yes really.
Mark Ghaly talks down to people because he is a pediatrician – not an epidemiologist, nor a virologist. He does have a Masters in Public Health, but that’s really not anything special: anyone with any bachelors degree who has taken general ed biology and general ed statistics can earn an MPH – a professional medical background not required.
Vote YES to recall Newsom his plans are clearly the same as the Globalists who want us gone or enslaved. These experimental shots are so deadly it should be a crime to promote them and it has only been 6 months! This is Agenda 21 people we are under attack. School has become indoctrination. So sad for our state and children to be suffering under this pseudoscience tyranny. Homeschool.
Sure, it is just a minor inconvenience to wear a mask!????
Seriously where is the compassion for your children?
Ever hear of hypercapnia, hypoxia, and deoxygenation! It is real!
Real science states children are at very low risk to contract Covid19.
The Delta variant may be more contagious in the general public but less deadly. Does that get reported in the MSM? Except when an MD was recently Interviewed on NBC bay area and accidentally tells the truth, the symptoms of the delta variant are very similar to the common cold she stated.
Parents please read this and get informed, for the sake your children.
https://rationalground.com/ramifications-of-restricted-breathing/
To feel “safe” the whole world needs to read and find out about what viruses really are. Then find out WHO all is behind this fraud. None of this ____ makes any sense but when we are all on the same page with knowledge of the scam and how they did it-it make perfect sense. Psychopaths wanting to control all of humanity. Wanting mass exterminations. There is no contagious virus from Wuhan, there never was one, no variants or mutations and absolutely no need to be wearing the masks. Prove it to yourself as millions of others-hopefully multi millions of others have done. Just follow your curiosity and learn to tell the liars from the people who are telling the truth and risking it all for no other reason than to help the rest of us wake up in time.
They-the global predators- have been pulling these fake diseases/plandemics on us for decades. I only found this out last April 2020 as I looked around and say no sick people just relentless CLAIMS from all the media sources that were inescapable. This is how they did it-their obedient media and the phony “test” to claim that a healthy person has “it”. There is no “it” As far as I know-the massive deception -with “big pharma” especially-goes back to John Davison Rockefeller Sr. This 2020 try is their most successful BUT it is THEIR last attempt-IF people fast forward to not complying with any of it anymore. If it is successful-its OUR end. We can make it THEIR last try starting today. We can say “Poof! gone, no more virus-no more masks ,or poison injections because we say so”. How can that happen if there is a real contagion? Exactly. THERE IS NOT ONE. We have just had tremendous lies told to us from experienced-way more than you or me-in lying and deceiving others. We don’t want this-they do! Don’t comply! Criminals we are following criminals-STOP! Nobody will die or get sick or make others sick if right now the whole world throws away all masks, removes all the signage designed to make people afraid of each other and don’t take any -or any more -of the graphene oxide (injections). Not a single one is a “vaccine” by legal definition of a vaccine.
They fool people by saying there are “cases” the cases come from incentivi$ed lying doctors and hospitaals making that declaration and from their phony pcr tests which are making multi billions. Why do colleges “require” masks and vaccines? Follow the funding the colleges wont get the federal dollars if they dont “require” this-not because there is a health concern. This is all about obedience just like in China. It must be the same with this highschool wanting to keep the masks-uncover the $$$$ trail. That’s how they do it. Money, compromising people and intimidation and fear. At least rest assured that there is no extraordinary health contagion and there never was one. Look at all cause mortality numbers for 2020. There are a group of people-THAT WE OUTNUMBER – I don’t call them “elites” because they are all criminals. Anybody that uses fear to control people or domination over them or compromises people to get them to be as low as they are is a criminal. Would we call Bill Gates or Fauci or the other main character-Klaus Schwab a leader? No these people are criminals and we did not vote for what they and their con-conspirators are attempting to do to us. Mass extermination as we follow THEIR “agenda 2030” plan. THEY believe that the world is over populated. Its is none of their business nor do they care about human life. We outnumber them and they don’t want us to realize that because then its over for them because people STOP complying!!! They have compromised our governments and other key people and they own the media-so they control our perceptions-if we allow them.
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Stef, you are a stooge. Delta variant is NOT even a real thing. Likely what we are seeing are the adverse reaction to the vaccine so they need to come up with a variant to blame it on. Stand by for more and more deaths. In the UK 257 deaths they blamed on Delta. 165 of the 257 had the vaccine.
Also Stef the stooge, the vaccine like the masks are harmful to children.
I would bet money Mark Ghaley is a molester. He looks like a Nickelodeon. exec…such a creep.
Keep your kids out of school. This idiot mentioned he didn’t want kids to feel different from others so he is mandating everyone where a mask. Why don’t you go the other way idiot and say no masks for anyone since they don’t work or have any scientific evidence that they actually thwart off a fake virus with a 99% recovery rate. What ass clowns do we have running out school system. This moron should be immediately removed from his position with the failed logic he displayed in the article to justify wearing mask.
How about if we solve this for good?
School choice is the real solution. More parents than ever can see that today.
Let’s put an initiative on the ballot and get it done. Stop allowing our kids to be held hostage. Let parents to use the $14,000/year our state spends on education for them in ways that benefit the child, not the system.
Show your support by signing the petition now! And be sure to share out and pass on to anyone you know who might agree!
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That’s it…….mask up or liberty….your choice….
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The California School Choice Foundation thanks the California Department of Public Health for their support.
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A large part of #DemParty #CoronaVirus policy is indoctrinating people, particularly children, to think “not free.”