Okanagan schools prepare for end of mask mandate
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As students in the Okanagan left for spring break on Friday, they were also saying goodbye to the school mask mandate.
As students in the Okanagan left for spring break on Friday, they were also saying goodbye to the school mask mandate.
The rule requiring students and staff to mask indoors will end when students return from their two-week break.
The school mask mandates are lifting B.C. wide.
It’s part of the province’s general easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
Some parents at a West Kelowna elementary school have mixed feelings about the shift.
“We’ve been told for so long that this is an important health safety measure and then to lose it really suddenly, it’s hard to reconcile how I feel,” said parent Amy Farella.
Farella said she is torn between “protecting children and all the social benefits they get from not having these restrictions.”
Parent Kong Khoo believes it is premature to think that COVID-19 is over with.
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