Appleton is currently in the “Low” Community Level for Covid-19, and masking is not mandated in any City of Appleton government buildings nor are masks mandated in Appleton Area School District buildings…except for Columbus Elementary School.
Columbus is currently above the 2% threshold for positive cases among students which, per AASD’s Covid rules, has prompted 2 weeks of mask wearing.
[To me, this illustrates the fundamentally inequitable nature of AASD’s current Covid guidelines and masking policy.]
Columbus is a very small school with only 127 students. The maximum number of Covid-positive students they can have at any given time without rising above that 2% threshold is 2. They have had 5 students test positive recently. That handful of students accounts for 3.38% of the student population, and Columbus is now in the midst of 14 days of mandatory masking even though the overall community Covid level as determined by the CDC is “Low” and few if any other organizations and businesses in Appleton are mandating masking.
There are three AASD elementary schools that have such low enrollments that they can only have 2 students at any given time who are positive for Covid before the school breaks the 2% threshold.
- Appleton Bilingual School – 119 students
- Appleton Montessori – 138 students
- Columbus – 127
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