PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KNX) – Palisades Charter High School restored its indoor mask mandate Wednesday following a COVID-19 spike among students and staff.
“After school resumed session from Spring Break, testing has revealed that there has been a significant increase in positive COVID-19 tests in our PCHS community. Subsequently, we surpassed the negotiated threshold for our Local-to-PCHS Positivity Rate of 0.5% (0.005) - which triggers PCHS going back to mandatory mask wearing indoors,” the school said.
“This is a threshold that PCHS’s Administration and PCHS-UTLA worked out months ago, and we’ve unfortunately now exceeded 0.5% and are at 0.7% (0.007).”
“I don’t really mind wearing, and I think it’s probably safer,” one student told KNX News.
“I think we’re almost out of it and if I have to wear a mask for two more weeks, I’m fine with that,” another student added.
Masks are still optional when students and staff at outdoors on the school’s campus.
The school said it will do a Positivity Rate check on April 29 to determine whether or not to continue the indoor mask mandate into May.
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