For the first time since the arrival of the pandemic, Illinois students will be starting the new school in the coming weeks in classrooms where they are no longer required to follow virus mitigation mandates, including masking.
Laquitta Boyd holds 6-year-old daughter Venisha getting her first COVID-19 vaccination at a back-to-school health fair at the Salvation Army Freedom Center on July 30, 2022, in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
As Illinois students return to the classroom in the coming weeks for the 2022-23 school year — the fourth school year to unfold during the lingering pandemic — educators, parents and pediatricians are hopeful the worst of the COVID-19 disruptions are behind them.But with the launch of the new school year coinciding with the surge of the highly contagious BA.
At John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Principal Keir Rogers led a group of freshmen on a building tour earlier this week, a contingent of students who have been dealing with the pandemic since they were in fifth grade. “We’re mindful there still is a pandemic, and we need to respect that some people still feel it’s necessary to wear a mask,” Rogers said. “In our community, we put aside any judgment of the choice students and staff make about masks.”Given the anticipated majority of students who will arrive in classrooms unmasked this fall, parent Jacqueline Helm is worried her daughter Bronwyn, 16, will have a tough time being one of the few teens still masking at Wheaton Warrenville South High School.
“It will not be any different than it was at the end of the last school year, when masks became optional, and Bronwyn will be facing the same situation,” Helm said. “I accept the school is doing what the majority wants them to do, but I would ask them, ‘Don’t forget about people with extreme circumstances.’”
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