More and more Texas school districts had be ignoring the Governor’s effort to stop them from requiring masks in educational situations and the state highest court, which rubber stamps Gov Abbott’s wishes ruled against him stopping the school’s actions….
This is all temporary …
The Texas Education Agency said it would temporarily stop enforcing Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates and the State Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing school districts to require face-coverings. Both decisions are temporary.
The agency said in new guidance on Thursday that it would immediately stop enforcing the ban on mask mandates until litigations were resolved.
In a reversal, the agency’s new guidance requires schools to notify their local health department if a student tests positive. The school must also notify students in the same classroom as well as those who share extracurricular activities.
As coronavirus hospitalizations have again surged in the state, nearing last year’s peaks, Mr. Abbott has resisted calls for new mandates and doubled down on his ban.
The governor’s mask mandate ban has been making its way through the courts as school districts and parents have continued to challenge it. Seven counties and 48 school districts have defied the governor by ordering mask mandates, The Associated Press reported. Several large cities, including Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, have bucked the governor’s ban….
Florida gives Broward and Alachua counties 48 hours to allow opt-out options for masks in schools or the state will begin process of withholding funds
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Biden Admin Has Already Told Schools How To Reimburse Any Funding Lost During Fights With GOP Guvs……
TPM….
The obsession of these southern Republicans over masks defies all reason.
Politics vs Health…..
And it shows what pure trash the Republican Party has become.
What kind of blind hate motivates them?
Why would anyone in the midst of this ravaging disease oppose something that could save lives?
These Orwellians have made the word “freedom” an obscenity.
And it’s this totally perverse label of “freedom” that seems to include the sacred, God-given and patriot-defended Right to allow parents to have their children bring death and disease to others.
So much for the right to life (other people’s defenseless children are unentitled to it).
So much for Life and Liberty.
Now that FOX News is requiring all employees disclose vaccination status what will Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham do?
They have basically been saying that’s a travesty and their viewers should quit jobs rather than conform to these mandates.
Do they stop the gravy train our of “principle”?
Scott?
You think all company memo’s over at Fox apply to EVERYONE?
Over 5000 new cases in S.C. today.
Three weeks after HankMac ,our virus spreading Governor ,went on national television and said doctors advocating mitigation measures were engaging in “ hyperbole.”
HankMac also denounced Biden for daring to send people out to encourage people to get vaccinated ..
Also today S.C. Attorney General Alan “yeah I flunked the bar exam once but so what” Wilson was trying to get the State Supreme Court to prohibit localities from enacting mask mandates.
It’s a great day in South Carolina!
I thought lots of people flunk the bar exam? No?
True ..I just added that because one of Wilson’s opponents in his initial election as AG raised the issue and Wilson responded pretty much with a “so what?”
Ok – thanks for the background.
Always the more embarrassing of the Carolinas, but at least demographic trends will have in voting Democratic in about a decade or so.
We said the same thing for Texas a decade ago….
It hasn’t happened….
I hope ur right though
The demographics of South Carolina aren’t changing that rapidly.Indeed in the new census ,the Population has grown but the ethnic and racial composition hasn’t changed that much.
Then there is Texas Lt.Gov.Dan Patrick ,who last year at the beginning of the pandemic, said the elderly had a duty to die to save the “economy,“
Last night Patrick who had previously claimed that immigrants were responsible for new infections , has a new villain.(drumroll please)…Blacks.
It appears that Blacks make up 16% of new cases in Texas while Whites and Hispanics make up the rest.
Offered without any further comment.
As Mr Peabody would incredulously ask Sherman at the end of an episode, “What, you haven’t heard of the … Black Death?” [dying rimshot]
Patrick also went on to mention that blacks were the major problem among the unvaccinated in most states and that they vote for Democrats 90% of the time.
This brings back memories of why I hated living in Texas.
I watched a segment this morning of a ten year old in Mississippi who was fortunate enough to be triaged a bed in the Intensive Care Unit of a Mississippi hospital. The kid had asthma. Although he wore a mask to school, most of the other students did not and so he got infected.
I can very much relate to the kid. Even though I almost always wear a mask when outside my home, I am always at risk – not just from the unvaccinated, but from the unmasked.