With rising public concern about school safety as COVID numbers increase in Polk County, Polk School Board Vice-Chair Kay Field has called for the board to consider a 30-day mask requirement.
She also says that her three requests to hold a special School Board meeting to discuss safety concerns have been ignored. The School Board next meets on Tuesday.
The School Board is scheduled to hold a work session at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday followed by a board meeting at 5 p.m. at the Jim Miles Professional Development Center at 4270 Wallace Road in Highland City.
In Fields news release, she has stressed the urgency of the COVID-19 situation: “Over the past 2 weeks I have heard from an increasing number of parents, employees, business and community leaders who are concerned that as our infection rates and incidences of serious illness increase that we are failing to act. It is my belief that a more purposeful and intentional effort to protect the lives of those we are responsible for demands our attention and consideration of requiring face coverings (masks) for the next 30 days or until the current state of emergency subsides.”
Thank you Mrs Field