Newsom wants to end school masks, but teachers say not yet – POLITICO

OAKLAND Blue states are ditching their school mask mandates, but California is stuck as powerful teachers unions push back.

The classroom was always going to be the last stand for the mask wars in California. Schools stayed closed longer here than anywhere else in the country as teachers unions made access to vaccines a condition of their return. More recently, teachers have demanded better masks and more testing to guard against the Omicron variant.

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I’m mystified by this. Has there been a single case of a student getting seriously ill from Omicron? How about a teacher? Perhaps there have been a very few. Do these justify the enormous costs imposed on students with these mask mandates? It’s very strange.