With mask requirements forbidden, how are Utah schools planning to cope with the coronavirus?

Will plastic partitions, or staggered lunch times, or bus seating charts be back?

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Students were required to wear masks when they returned to Highland High School in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, after months of learning only online. For this school year, the Utah Legislature has banned mask mandates in Utah schools.

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Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.

With mask requirements forbidden, how are Utah schools planning to cope with the coronavirus?

Will plastic partitions, or staggered lunch times, or bus seating charts be back?

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