Does your child have to wear a mask in Kansas City-area schools? Kansas side, find out
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COVID-19 safety in schools
For the new school year, as COVID-19 cases are surging and hospitals are turning away patients, Kansas City area districts are making decisions about safety.
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Kansas City area school districts are deciding whether to mandate masks for the coming school year.
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 5 to mandate masks for any school that has students in pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade, aiming to protect those not yet eligible for the vaccine. That includes any middle school that has sixth-graders who might mingle with older students. Most districts went further than the county order required.
That night, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, approved a mask mandate for most residents over the age of 5. But that order excludes school districts, leaving it up to school boards to enact any mandates.
Regardless, everyone has to wear a mask on school buses.
Here’s what Kansas schools are doing:
Kansas school districts with mandates
Bonner Springs/Edwardsville
Olathe
Gardner-Edgerton (only pre-K-6)
Piper
Spring Hill (only pre-K-8)
Kansas school districts without mandates
Turner: Masks are recommended indoors but not required.
This story was originally published July 21, 2021 at 5:40 PM.
