Lower Merion School District (LMSD) Superintendent, Robert Copeland, posted this letter on the district’s website yesterday (July 13). Copeland was careful to note that “We are also working within state and federal guidance that continues to change and is at times contradictory. Therefore, our plans for reopening are not yet finalized and will likely continue to be revised throughout the summer.
As expected, the guidelines call for staff and students to wear masks at all times when they in school except for excercising outdoors, “mask breaks” and lunchtime. But when masks are not worn, staff and students will expected to main “social distance.”
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Suppose I don’t want to wear a mask?
The superintendent wrote in his letter that
The District Solicitor is currently reviewing whether students who refuse to wear face coverings, and are not exempted from doing so, can be excluded from school.