Comparisons To Auschwitz Made Following Announcement Of Completely Optional COVID Program.
Wristbands Used On Television Sets, Movie Sets, Hawaii. But Some Claim Anti-Semitism At Jewish School.
BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2021 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A vocal group of high school students is protesting plans by Katz Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton to let them opt-out of mask-wearing by proving COVID-19 vaccination status. That proof comes by wearing a wristband.
Continuing the ongoing conservative theme of comparing masks, wristbands, or other identification requirements to Nazi-esque mandates, the students — and their parents — are complaining online and to local media.
Documents obtained by BocaNewsNow.com, however, show the plan is part of the school’s effort to wind down mask mandates and return to a sense of normalcy. The use of wristbands is similar to procedures used on movie and television sets, in the state of Hawaii for visitors to prove they met the State’s entrance requirements, and in other public places.
In an email sent to Katz families by head of school Rabbi Avi Levitt, the wristband use is completely voluntary and designed to let vaccinated students enjoy the benefit of being vaccinated.
This is an email from Rabbi Levitt to students, obtained by BocaNewsNow.com:
As the incidence of Covid-19 in South Florida diminishes, and as the number of positives within our own community remains at a manageable level, KYHS is ready to move to an updated approach to mitigation of viral spread.
KYHS will now have an available voluntary opt-in program. Any vaccinated student who would like to be eligible for a mask-optional approach in school may do so, provided: The student’s parent(s) / guardian has submitted the acknowledgment form, the student participates in a single required PCR Covid test, (and) the student wears the school-issued wristbands that will identify students who are eligible to be in school without a mask. (Wristbands will be reissued roughly once per week in order to reflect the fluid nature of the list of eligible-to-unmask students.)
The unmasking portion of the voluntary opt-in program begins once we have received the (negative) results of the PCR Covid test.
Please take note of the following: Unvaccinated students are not eligible to unmask at this time. Covid-recovered students within 90 days of illness may unmask for the duration of those 90 days. Any student who is unable to conform to the masking expectations and who through their actions introduces additional Covid risk to the building will be asked to leave school on the day of the violation.
If the incidence of Covid-19 heads upwards once more either in our own community or in the South Florida environs, we may need to require all students to mask once more.
Any teacher may require a class to mask in order to enable them to comfortably teach in the building. We have pregnant teachers and teachers recovering from medical issues who may opt to require masks and as such students need to have a mask on hand for those sections. (The office will continue to keep boxes of masks on hand for students who may forget to bring a mask to school.)
We are interested in achieving “normalcy” and yet we also seek to balance that with sufficient health safety that will enable as many students to remain in school and not require learning on the Zoom platform. We look forward to this next phase of school life at KYHS and hope and pray to Hashem that with this move we will continue to ease away from the Covid policies of the past 17 months.
The reaction is what anyone following mask and vaccine mandate protestors would expect. They have taken to Change.Org to compare the optional program to Auschwitz.
We have asked for comment from Rabbi Avi Levitt. We will update if BocaNewsNow.com receives a statement regarding the optional wristband policy that is generating controversy.
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