{"id":6087,"date":"2022-07-06T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:57:12","slug":"proposal-to-defy-mask-mandate-tabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=6087","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to defy mask mandate tabled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1st Place, News Story<\/strong><br>2021-22, Division 3, News Writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Farrah Fasse<\/strong><br>North Pointe<br>Grosse Pointe North HS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Nov. 18, Board Trustee Lisa Papas withdrew her resolution to implement a mask-optional policy in Grosse Pointe Public Schools from the board\u2019s voting agenda. If approved, the resolution would have defied Wayne County Health Department\u2019s mask mandate for all schools. Papas\u2019 resolution was discussed at the Nov. 8 work session of the Board, where its legality and public health impacts were debated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;In her resolution, Papas said she included a specific stipulation that would give staff, students and community members the freedom to choose whether or not to wear a mask.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI put in a specific resolution into that resolution that protected anybody that wished to wear a mask \u2014 staff, students or community members,\u201d Papas said. \u201cSo, I was really trying to protect everybody\u2019s right to choose. My resolution was to just honor&nbsp;choice and allow people to make the choice [of] whether to wear a mask or not.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he says his expertise is in education rather than public health, Superintendent Jon Dean turns to the health department for information regarding COVID-19 precautions to ensure students can stay in school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that my primary goal is to make sure we provide a standing face-to-face instruction,\u201d Dean said. \u201cI don\u2019t enjoy wearing my mask. At the same time, I am probably just about as good \u2014 or not as good \u2014 as superintendent with my mask as without. The health department says I need to wear it. I know that masks do matter and they keep everyone safe for you and me, and I can still go about doing my job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though a\u00a0legal opinion from Clark Hill PLC\u00a0regarding the issue, given at the request of the Board, stated that GPPSS could face serious legal repercussions if the resolution was passed, Papas would like to reintroduce her resolution after further discussion and obtaining more legal opinions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI asked [Board President Joseph Herd and Superintendent Jon Dean] to withdraw it from the agenda on the 22nd for voting so we could have time to get additional legal opinions, and have an additional discussion just about the legal ramifications of that resolution, so that\u2019s why I withdrew it,\u201d Papas said. \u201cIt is really based on legal decisions and legal opinions, it\u2019s not that I want the resolution taken off. I still support it, I still believe in it, but we are taking a breath and having some additional conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northpointenow.org\/proposal-to-defy-mask-mandate-tabled\/\">View original material<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NW-02. 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