CHICAGO — Most kids wore face coverings as they entered Park Manor Elementary School on Monday, even as Chicago Public Schools relaxed its mask rules for students and staff.
The school — in the Greater Grand Crossing community on the South Side — has struggled with COVID-19, especially as winter break began in December. Twenty-four people were in quarantine or isolation Sunday, after a positive case was detected at the school last week, according to CPS data. Some Park Manor parents expressed concern about kids being unmasked in classrooms for the first time since the pandemic began more than two years ago.
“I’m not comfortable with the masks getting taken off. It’s too soon. It’s really too soon,” parent Rosheena Green said Monday as she dropped off her 12-year-old daughter at Park Manor, a school with about 250 students.
