January 9, 2022 – Richfield, WI – Prior to the beginning of the 2021-2022 School Year there was great cooperation and partnership between the Holy Hill Area School District Board, Administration, and Parents to develop a plan together that would allow our children a “normal” school year; in person, unmasked, and giving parents discretion for matters of risk with options for virtual learning and individual masking.
This era of trust and cooperation was broken with the enactment of a “Masks Mandatory” policy starting Monday, January 10 that was dropped into parent’s lap this past Friday.
This edict was not issued with any prior notification or input to parents and unilaterally signed by the District Administrator Tara Villalobos. The notice was issued late this past Friday afternoon, after normal school hours, from an unmonitored email address, and, without any course for questions, follow up, input, or requests for more information. It was simply handed down as law.
Personally, we will be withholding our children from attendance until the elected board can go on record with support for or against this new policy; thankfully there is a solid group of like-minded parents who intend to do the same.
Fortunately, the next School Board working session is also Monday, January 10, and unfortunately, once again our children are forced to bear the burden for our school administration to assuage their feelings of needing to “do something.”
I encourage all Holy Hill Area School District citizens who are concerned with not only the content of the message, but also in the way it was dropped late Friday with the purpose of hiding behind the weekend to voice their concerns at the Holy Hill Area School District School Board meeting Monday, January 10 at Richfield Middle School at 5:30 p.m.
I will be the one there fighting for parent’s rights to have a school district that serves them, not the administration.
Sincerely,
Jeff Spenner
Richfield
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