DePaul Principal Megan Stanton-Anderson, earlier this year, imposed heavy restrictions on unvaccinated students even though at though at the time breakthrough cases of the Delta variant were becoming increasingly prevalent. | depaulprep.org
DePaul Principal Megan Stanton-Anderson, earlier this year, imposed heavy restrictions on unvaccinated students even though at though at the time breakthrough cases of the Delta variant were becoming increasingly prevalent. | depaulprep.org
DePaul College Prep High School is suspending students who fail to wear their masks appropriately.
The private high school on Chicago’s north side sent out a notice to students and parents Thursday morning. Students also told Chicago City Wire that Principal Megan Stanton-Anderson told them that they would be suspended for improper mask usage during finals.
“All students and adults on campus must wear a properly fitting mask when indoors on campus,” the school’s COVID-19 policy reads.
Stanton-Anderson has been a source of controversy at the school.
“Megan has been using COVID to systemically humiliate students all year. Now this. She is a sociopath,” a DePaul parent who asked not to be named for fear of retribution told Chicago City Wire.
The school was in the headlines for its approach to the pandemic earlier this year when it mandated vaccines for students.
In that case, Stanton-Anderson imposed heavy restrictions on unvaccinated students even though at though at the time breakthrough cases of the Delta variant were becoming increasingly prevalent.
Parents say the school has also limited attendees at sporting events to four people per participant after the school recorded five new cases of COVID-19.
DePaul hosts over 720 students on its 17-acre campus. The annual cost of tuition is $15,500.
A 2020 University of Illinois at Chicago study found that "cloth masks and face coverings are likely to have limited impact on lowering COVID-19 transmission, because they have minimal ability to prevent the emission of small particles.. and offer limited personal protection with respect to small particle inhalation.”
A recent study by Canada’s University of Waterloo published in the Physics of Fluids found most masks provided little protection from the dispersing of aerosols in the indoor environment -- even when worn properly -- and that at best N95 masks only provide 50% filtration of exhalations.
Meanwhile Gov. J.B. Pritzker has noted his intention to enforce executive orders regarding masking indefinitely.
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