TSC’s optional-mask policy leads to big quarantines, health dept says
Tippecanoe School Corp. doesn’t have outsized number of COVID-19 cases, but with mask-optional policy, its quarantine rate is 8 times higher than neighboring LSC, according to numbers released Friday
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Parents and health officials pressing Tippecanoe School Corp. for tighter mask rules in classrooms wound up with a new round of persuasion Friday, when Tippecanoe County Health Department revealed that 388 students had been quarantined in the first week-and-a-half of school.
Cases of COVID-19 per 1,000 students in TSC – the 11th largest district in the state, with 13,800 students last year – weren’t the highest in the county. That belonged to West Lafayette, a smaller district with a slightly higher rate of infections reported by the health department.
But TSC, where masks are optional inside school buildings, had a quarantine rate that was more than three times greater than the one in West Lafayette and eight times that of Lafayette School Corp.
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