In the past few weeks, South Carolina has set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations, and new cases have approached peak levels of last winter. Classes, schools and entire districts have gone virtual, leaving parents frustrated and teachers quitting.
on June 7, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster has maintained that parents alone should decide if children wear masks in schools, even as the state’s new cases soared from 150 a day on average to more than 5,000.
Teacher Nicole Walker said a ripple goes through classes at her high school each time the phone rings and a student is sent to the nurse: Does their friend have COVID-19? Will they have to quarantine? The disruptions breed fear and uncertainty in the classroom, she said. Alison Harding noted those full classrooms and the few second graders wearing masks when she dropped off her son for his first day at Daniel Island School in Charleston last month. The 7-year-old has a neuromuscular disease, uses a wheelchair and needs devices to help him breathe.
Although the state’s top health officials have put together presentations in the past few weeks to show that is wrong, the position persists with McMaster and a number of Republican lawmakers. “I’m frustrated with the governor, with the stupid proviso, I’m frustrated that the school board won’t stand up and do what’s right. I wish we could take the politicalness out of it and just treat it like how any other public health issue would be treated,” said Brandy Sutherland of Summerville, whose first and seventh grader had to go back to virtual school for at least a week after a year of wrestling with online classes.“I don’t know how it became a debate.
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