Iowa’s 7-day COVID-19 positivity rate now at 2.8% – KCCI Des Moines

MORE ALSO TOPPING OUR NSEW TONIGHT KIDS INHE T JOHNSTON SCHOOLS WILL CONTINUE WEANGRI FACE MASKS AS A COVID9-1 PRECAUTION. THE DECISION COMES DAYS AFTER THE STATE RECOMMENDED LETTING PARENTS AND STUDENTS DECIDE. KCCI’S, LAUREN JOHNSON IS LIVE TONIGHT WITH MORE ON THE DECISION AND THE PUSHBACK FROM PARENTS. THAT’S RIGHT JOHNSTON THE JOHNSTON SCHOOL BOARD DID DECIDE THEY ARE GNGOI TO MAKE STUDENTS KEEP WEARING THOSE MASKS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, EVEN THOUGH IT’S LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. THEY I WLDOU APARTMENT A PUBLIC HEALTH ONCE MASKS IN SCHOOL TO BE MADE OPTIONAL THE RECOMMENDATION ON FRIDAY CAME AFTER THE CDC SAID THAT FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE NO LONRGE NEED TO WEAR THEM IN MOST SITUATIONS MANY PARENTS SPOKE OUT AGAINST JOHNSTON’S DECISION AT MONDAY NIGHT’S CALLING THE BOARD TO ALLOW PARENTS TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICE ON WHETHER THEIR CHILD SHOULD MASK SOME PARTSEN CALLED WEARING MASKS RIDICULOUS AND SAID THEIR CHILD MAY NOT ENROLL WITH JOHNSTON NEXT YEAR IF THEY KEEP. SKMA RULES EVEN WITH THAT PUSHBACK THE BOARD REMAINED FIRM ON THEIR POSITION. OUR BIGGEST ENEMY RHTIG NOW IS ALMOSTSE OURLVES FORCING CRAZY THINGS UNPO OURSELVES WITH THESE RIDICULOUS MASKS. YOU OWE IT TO EVERY REGISTERED STUDENT. TO DECIDE NOT ONLY TODAY BUT FOR NEXT YEAR. IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW NEXT YEAR. ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE MY KIDS WEAR A MASK OR NOT? YEAH, I AM CONFIDENT THAT WE DID. WHAT’S RIGHT FIRST STUDENTS BECAE USTHAT’S REALLY WHY WE DO THIS JOB. SO SOME OTHER CHANGES THAT CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING STUDENTS RECENTLY HAD A CAP ON HOW MANY GUESTS THEY COULD INVITE TO THEIR GRADU. THE SCHOOLEC DIDED TO LIFT THAT CAP. SO EACH STUDENT SCEIN IT IS OUTSIDE. THE GRADUATION WILL BE HELD OUTSIDE. THE STUDENTS CAN BRING AS MANY FAMILY MEMRSBE AS THEY WANT. THEY ALL JUST NEED TO ARRIVE AT THE SAME TIME. THERE WILL BE MORE SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO SPREAD OUT OUTSIDE AND ALSO ANY STUDENT THAT IS CURRENTLY QUARANTINED AND ASPTYMOMATIC IS ALLOWED TO RETURN BACK TO SCHLOO IF THEY ARE WEARING A MASK REPORTING LIVE OUT HERINE AUSTIN LAUREN JOHNSON, KCCIEW NS. I WAS NEWS LEADER IN NORWALK TONIGHT. THE SCHOOLS ARE CHANGING THEIR MASS GUIDELINES REYES HERE NOW AND RAY OF WHAT DID THE BOARD DECIDE WLEL THE NORWALK SUPERINTENDENT SAYS MASS WILL BE OPTIONAL IN CTAERIN CIRCUMSTANCES DT MCGEE TELLS KCCI THAT MASK ARE NOW REQUIRED INDOORS AND IN SCHOOL CARS WHILE NASCAR OPTIONAL WHEN ON-SCHOOL GROUNDS WENT OUTSIDEND A NORWALK’S PREVIOUS POLICY REQUIRED MASS BE WORN ON CAMPUS AT ALL TIMES INSIDER O OUT THE BOARD WILL REVISITHE T TOPIC AT ITS ITS JUNE 14TH BOARD MEETING. ANKENY SCHOOL BOARD DISCUSS MASS TONIGHT TOO, BUT DIDN’T MAKENY A IMMEDIATE. IS IT’S MASS MANDATE WILL STAY IN PLACE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR, BUT PEOPLE SPOKE OUT AGAINST IT. IT’S TIME TO DO BETTER PARENTS WANT THE CHOICE TO GIVE US THE CHOICE AND PUT IT IN THE HANDS OF PARENTS WHEN I HAD TO WEAR A MASK. I DID NOT LIKE. THE LAST NAME YOU FEEL SICK AND LIKE I CONNECT WITH I WAS NOT ABLE TO FOCUS ON MY SCHOOLWORK AND A LOT OF HEADACHES. THE SUPERINTENDENTAI SD THAT THE DISTRICT IS PLANNING FOR SUMRME SCHOOL AND SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO BEGIN WHIT A MASK OPTIONAL APPROACH, BUT THEY S