2021-22 PROPOSED LPS Safe Return to Schools Feedback Analysis

Summer 2021

The public had an opportunity to provide feedback from July 1 – 9, 2021 on the 2021-22 LPS Safe Return to Schools Plan released on July 1, 2021. We received 1,036 responses.

An analysis of the feedback was conducted and the responses were coded into three categories.

• Agreement with the plan
  • Support for the plan
  • Expressions of thanks for the plan and the hard work of LPS staff
• Requests for more restrictive safety measures:
  • Require masks for everyone
  • Require masks for students under 12 and staff who work with them
  • Require masks for unvaccinated students and staff
  • Require proof of vaccination for employees and/or students
  • Require vaccine records
  • Implement more distancing and/or lunch dividers
  • Close drinking fountains (with access only to fill bottles)
  • More stringent or frequent cleaning
• Requests for less restrictive safety measures:
  • Strongly recommended masks for staff (rather than requiring them)
  • Stop recommending vaccines
  • Don’t require vaccine records
  • Make masks completely optional for students and staff
  • No masks for anyone
  • Don’t require masks for students and staff who had Covid
  • Remove distancing requirements
  • Relax quarantine rules (e.g., all students should be able to attend school even with close exposure)
  • Reduce use of sanitizer/bleach
  • Eliminate plastic shields
  • Remove limitations on recess (e.g., who can play with whom)
  • Allow field trips
  • Allow volunteers in schools without masks
  • Get “back to normal