JMCSS announces changes to safety protocols in schools
JACKSON, Tenn. — Jackson-Madison County Schools have announced changes to the district’s safety protocols, beginning Monday, Aug. 9.
The district says schools will begin the week under one of three designations: masks optional, masks mandatory or mask on the move, according to a news release.
Teachers and students in the masks optional schools will have the option of wearing a mask during the school day, the release says. Schools in the masks mandatory designation will require masks throughout the school day for two weeks, the release says.
Mask mandatory designations will continue until there is a significant decrease in isolations and quarantines, the release says.
The following schools will be considered mask mandatory:
- Community Montessori
- South Side High School
- Madison Academic Magnet High School
- North Side High School
- Northeast Middle School
- Jackson Central-Merry High School
- JCM Early College High
- West Bemis Middle School
We’ll have more information on the changes coming up on WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News tonight at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
