Two Jefferson County School Districts Require Masks

CBS St. Louis

September 5, 2021

All students and employees in the Crystal City School District are now required to wear a mask when indoors.

"I personally am fine with the masks. My kids have been wearing them from day one even though it's optional," Kristy Dove said. She has a son in third grade and a daughter in first grade in the district.

On Tuesday, Superintendent Matt Holdinghausen sent an email to parents telling them the mask requirement would start on Wednesday. In the email he wrote, "Over the course of the last three days we have had 20+ positive cases and the number has been increasing daily." Currently, Jefferson County is in the red category for its number of COVID-19 cases. According to the health department, the county's positivity rate is 14.6%. And for the third week in a row, the health department says the highest increase in cases is in the zero to 9-year-old age group.

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