A fourth Door County school district will require at least your elementary students and staff members to mask up while indoors beginning on Monday. The Sevastopol School Board voted 4-3 Thursday to require students in grades 4K through sixth grade and all staff members to wear facial coverings when indoors. The only exception is during physical education classes where the gym allows for more spacing. Masking will remain optional for students in seventh grade and up. Sevastopol Superintendent Kyle Luedtke says he made the recommendation after discovering the majority of its six positive cases and 20 quarantined students were at the elementary level. The older students impacted have ties to kids at the elementary school. Luedtke hopes this action will help keep things under control.

No specific criteria were set to lift the requirement, but Luedtke says the board has given him the ability to either call a special meeting or to make the decision on his own. Although not as strict as the others, Sevastopol joins Washington Island, Gibraltar, and Sturgeon Bay school districts as having a masking requirement for students and staff. St. John Bosco School in Sturgeon Bay also has its own mask mandate.

DISTRICT COMMUNICATION FROM SUPERINTENDENT KYLE LUEDTKE

Required masking for all 4K through 6th grade students when indoors. The exception will be physical education class in the gym (the gym allows more spacing). Optional masking for grades 7-12. Mandatory masking for ALL staff. For educational purposes, if a teacher is 6 feet or farther away from all students they may remove the mask to provide instruction.

If one is alone in a room then one does not need to mask.

Follow all protocols outlined in the September 1, 2021 letter to parents.

Allow the use of the rapid testing for Covid.