The following message was emailed yesterday to some in District 220:
“Dear Barrington 220 Community,
Today I sent a letter to Governor Pritzker and Dr. Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, in which I advocate for the state to take the necessary steps to address the high number of healthy student quarantines and put in place tools to allow school districts to move toward mask choice within our schools when the time is appropriate. I have linked the letter below, so you are aware of the district’s efforts and I encourage our citizens to join in advocacy.
I appreciate the ongoing partnership between our school and community.”
Hunt’s letter reads in part:
“We respectively ask that the following be considered as an appropriate path for school districts:
- Modify the requirements for students identified as “close contact” in a universal masking situation. The current requirements have led to a high number of quarantines for healthy students and staff within districts throughout Illinois. Students and staff should remain in school unless symptomatic in a universally masked environment.
- Utilize the “Testto Stay” provision for students and staff that are determined as “close contacts” when masking requirements were deemed inconsistent (in and outside of school). This will also minimize healthy student and staff quarantine.
- When hospitalization capacity is manageable, communicate a benchmark in which we will remove the universal masking order in schools where eligible age students can be vaccinated and allow school districts to make local decisions.”
To read and download the letter, click here.
Good move Dr. Hunt. It takes courage to go against the Left and teacher’s unions to advocate for the un-masking of our kiddos and to eliminate the quarantines of healthy students. Thank you for taking a stand. I hope you cc’d Brian Harris, I hear he is tight with JB😉