After one week, Mississippi high school has quarantined 40% of its entire student body.

[Nevilledog]

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Brendan Nyhan
@BrendanNyhan
This fall is going to go great: “Classes began at the Carriere, Miss., school on Aug. 5 with no mask mandates. Since then, the high school has quarantined 394 members of its roughly 1,000-member student body.”

Ashton Pittman
@ashtonpittman
BREAKING: After one week, Pearl River Central High School has quarantined 40% of its entire student body.

When classes began, the school board made masks optional for a more "normal" school year.

Now, the entire school district is going virtual.
https://mississippifreepress.org/14689/pearl-river-high-school-quarantines-40-of-students-in-first-week-district-going-virtual/…
6:34 PM · Aug 12, 2021

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/14689/pearl-river-high-school-quarantines-40-of-students-in-first-week-district-going-virtual/

An entire Mississippi school district is going virtual after Pearl River Central High School ordered 40% of its student body to quarantine after just one week of school. Classes began at the Carriere, Miss., school on Aug. 5 with no mask mandates. Since then, the high school has quarantined 394 members of its roughly 1,000-member student body.

“In person learning will be suspended for all students in the Pearl River County School District beginning on August 16 due to the increased spread of the COVID virus in our schools and community,” the Pearl River County School District Relaunch Plan, revised today, now says. “The suspension of in-person learning will go through August 27 or September 6.”

For the second time this week, the Pearl River County School Board is holding a meeting at 5:30 p.m. to decide how long virtual schooling will last. Board members punted on quarantine plans during the last emergency meeting on Monday, but did reinstate a mask mandate after starting classes without them.

Despite an all-time high of 4,412 new COVID-19 cases reported statewide today, Gov. Tate Reeves insisted in a tweet today that “there will be no lockdowns and there will be no statewide (mask) mandates”—despite warning from hospital leaders that the health care system is on the brink of “failure.” Despite mandating masks in schools statewide last year, the governor told WLOX’s Dave Elliot today that such decisions will be up to local leaders.

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[tblue37]

1. Well, I gotta say:

https://m.

[Worried2020]

4. Beat me to it -

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I'd searched for a meme as soon as I saw the title of the thread, so

gonna share my "find" . . .







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[sheshe2]

2. Who could have possibly known that this would happen.

Keep up the good work Old Miss! Good job.

[Jerry2144]

3. it really sucks

that the school is going viral. And not in an entertaining way. Those children should have been kept safe and healthy.

[spanone]

5. Mississippi is killing it's children.....Florida and Texas to follow.