Mother urges community to mask-up their students or continue to see school closures
A mother who's son is battling COVID-19 for a second time, is asking that her small community mask-up students to avoid future campus closures. Currently the Sabinal ISD 3rd grade is out of school for a week after kids were exposed last week.
Analysis: Those arent just COVID-19 numbers. Theyre Texans.
Ironwood Saloon owner Elizabeth McNiel and her husband, Ryan, shut down their bar in Sabinal because of COVID-19 mandates. Grant Tran, a senior at Texas State University in San Marcos, where classes started this week. Or Adolfo Fito Alvarado Jr., a chaplain at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg killed by COVID-19 last month. The decisions about whether to keep schools open affect about 5.5 million kids, or roughly 1 in every 6 Texans. We read stories about public and private efforts to help, to spend money, to make the good numbers rise and the bad numbers fall.