Dublin ISD has decided to continue requiring all students and staff to wear facemasks for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year. The decision followed gathering input from the school administration, medical response team and looking into the decisions of neighboring school districts.
Dublin ISD made the announcement in the following letter provided to parents this week:
The Texas Education Agency has published guidance for schools to follow after the Governor’s Executive Order GA-34. Following TEA’s guidance, Dublin ISD will continue its current practice of requiring all students and staff members to wear face coverings for the remainder of the school year.
We all desire to return to normal, but the safety of our staff and students will remain the priority in our school district.
Additionally, the proper use of face coverings is a mitigating factor in determining the definition of “close contact” during contact tracing, per TEA guidelines. Therefore, it reduces the likelihood of having to quarantine large groups of students at one time. Dublin ISD is striving to provide a safe learning environment for all students and staff, while also keeping our campuses open for the remainder of the year.
We hope all of our students, families, and staff have had a restful Spring Break and we look forward to finishing the last eight weeks of the school year on a positive note.
La Agencia de Educación de Texas ha publicado una guía para que las escuelas sigan la Orden Ejecutiva GA-34 del Gobernador. Siguiendo la guía de TEA, Dublin ISD continuará su práctica actual de requerir que todos los estudiantes y miembros del personal usen cubre bocas durante el resto del año escolar.
Todos deseamos volver a la normalidad, pero la seguridad de nuestro personal y estudiantes seguirá siendo la prioridad en nuestro distrito escolar. Además, el uso adecuado de las cubiertas faciales es un factor atenuante para determinar la definición de “contacto cercano” durante el rastreo de contactos, según las pautas de la TEA. Por lo tanto, reduce la probabilidad de tener que poner en cuarentena a grandes grupos de estudiantes al mismo tiempo. Dublin ISD se esfuerza por proporcionar un entorno de aprendizaje seguro para todos los estudiantes y el personal, al mismo tiempo que mantiene abiertos nuestros campus durante el resto del año.
Esperamos que todos nuestros estudiantes, familias y personal tengan un buen descanso de vacaciones de primavera y esperamos terminar las últimas ocho semanas del año escolar de manera positiva.
—Citizen staff report