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Gibraltar drops mask requirement, superintendent announces retirement

Monday’s Gibraltar Area School Board meeting offered plenty of changes for its families. The board voted in favor of instituting an optional mask policy for students in grades seven through twelve beginning December 20th. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade will have to wait until January 3rd. In both cases, students would need parental permission to go maskless. Staff members will also have the opportunity to choose to mask or not at those points as well. Superintendent Tina Van Meer says many of its current safety protocols will remain in effect. With vaccines available for everyone above the age of five, she added that is now up to the parents.

Van Meer also announced that she will retire at the end of June after 10 years on the job as Gibraltar superintendent and over 30 years in education. She is proud of what has been accomplished, but she is also looking forward to some time to reset.

She has at least one more major task to complete before she leaves after the board approved establishing a pilot program for its preschool.

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