LETTERS: No, Cherry Creek district leaders aren’t honoring public health guidance

Editor: The CCSD board and Superintendent Smith have elected to forego the advice of the Tri County Health Department but worse, pretend to still be honoring it. While ignoring the precedent of the Denver Public Schools in aligning with federal, state and county health guidance, CCSD paradoxically brushes over their own negligence to our community. CCSD’s leadership has a responsibility to the community and to the children of CCSD to follow guidance from health experts and equally, to be honest about their current policy’s dissent from science.

Masking in schools is such a trivial way to protect the community and prevents more drastic actions being necessary but my feelings are mostly irrelevant. What is relevant is that the experts entrusted to set this guidance have done so and CCSD has ignored them.

— Larry Hau, via letters@sentinelcolorado.com