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ELLICOTT CITY (WJZ) — As schoolhouse systems reevaluate their look covering policies, Howard County volition go the archetypal schoolhouse strategy successful the authorities to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for its employees.
Anyone who isn’t vaccinated volition beryllium taxable to regular testing.
School doors unfastened successful conscionable 3 weeks, and portion Superintendent Michael Martirano said this wasn’t an casual determination to make, parents said they’re successful afloat support. They said they don’t privation different twelvemonth of virtual learning.
Traci Spiegel of Glenwood has 2 kids successful precocious school.
“Our children were locked successful their rooms for an full year,” she said. “I had teachers archer maine that past twelvemonth was a wash.”
Howard County already mandates masks successful each schools, careless of vaccination status.
Colleen Morris, president of the Howard County Education Association, said successful a connection that a “safe and steadfast return” to in-person learning is their apical priority. She said the enactment supports aggregate paths to forestall COVID-19 transmission, including vaccines and cosmopolitan masking.
“Nationally, portion 90% of educators are vaccinated, little than 50% of adults and little than 40% of eligible students are afloat vaccinated; we indispensable summation these numbers to support our students and to person the safe, healthy, and in-person schoolhouse twelvemonth that we each stock arsenic a goal,” she said.
Annie Rose Ramos
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