School officials are requiring the masks 'to prevent further transmission' for the next 10 days
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An elementary school in a Washington D.C. suburb in Maryland is reinstating school masks for third-graders, after a handful of kids reecntly tested positive for COVID-19.
In a now-viral X post, OutKick founder Clay Travis posted a letter that was allegedly sent to all parents at Rosemary Elementary School in Montgomery County, updating them on updated mask requirements for all students.
"A DC area elementary school — Montgomery County, Maryland — is reinstating a mask mandate — N95’s — for third-graders over a few kids testing positive for COVID," Travis wrote on X. "Here’s the letter. They’re coming with masks for your kids again. Get ready. Read this insanity."
Parents at a Maryland elementary school were recently sent a letter from the school principal explaining why students are now required to wear N95 masks while at school. (AP/Chris O'Meara/File)
A DC area elementary school — Montgomery County, Maryland — is reinstating a mask mandate — N95’s — for third graders over a few kids testing positive for covid. Here’s the letter. They’re coming with masks for your kids again. Get ready. Read this insanity. pic.twitter.com/LZs4N19XLL
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 5, 2023
The letter, addressed to parents of students in one specific classroom, informs parents that "3 or more individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in [redacted] class in the past 10 days. We are taking the following steps to keep our school environment as safe as possible for in-person teaching and learning."
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School Principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy continues to say that the N95 mask requirements come "to prevent further transmission" in that classroom for the next 10 days.
"Additional N95 masks have been distributed and students and staff in identified classes or activities will be required to mask while in school for the next 10 days, except while eating or drinking," Kennedy wrote. "Masks will become optional again following the 10-day period."
Rosemary Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland is requiring third-graders to wear N95 masks to prevent COVID-19 in the classroom. (iStock)
The principal said that at-home rapid tests kits will be sent home and encouraged parents to be on the lookout for COVID symptoms.
"At-home rapid test kits will be sent home and made available for students," Kennedy states, giving the guidance from the CDC that testing should be done, "5 days after an exposure (starting day 6)," or at such time as symptoms occur.
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The principal concluded her letter to parents, saying that following the newly reinstated mask rules to "ensure that staff and students remain healthy for in-person learning."
Rosemary Elementary School did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Amid an uptick of COVID cases, a Maryland school is requiring students to wear a N95 mask. (David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images/File)
Amid an uptick in COVID cases, experts have agreed that the coronavirus, in all its forms, is likely a permanent part of life.
"One thing that Americans must understand: SARS-CoV-2 and its variants are never going away," Dr. Brett Osborn, a board-certified neurosurgeon in West Palm Beach, Florida, told Fox News Digital. "It is here to stay because its mutation rate is high, just like influenza."
Fox News Digital's Kyle Morris contributed to this report.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
