Several community members weighed in on Dubuque Community Schools’ masking policy during a school board meeting on Monday. Seven people spoke during the open forum portion of the meeting after board members last week disagreed over whether to tweak their current policy. The district currently requires that masks be worn in a school building when the positivity rate among students and staff there reaches 3% or higher. Almost all of the community members who spoke asked that the board either leave its current policy in place — rather than make it more stringent — or drop masking requirements altogether. Board members also opted not to take action on a proposed employee COVID-19 vaccination and testing policy as the federal mandate requiring it continues to be challenged. Members removed the policy from their agenda at the start of the meeting.
