District mask mandate unevenly applied

In what some are calling a sign of inconsistency or hypocrisy, a basketball playoff game at Spring-Ford High School was allowed to go on despite lessthan-optimal mask wearing in the audience on the same night a school board meeting was halted when members of the audience refused to wear masks.

The matter was raised that night, and subsequently on social media, by those who objected to Feb. 22’s abrupt adjournment of the school board meeting at which the conditions under which Spring-Ford’s mask mandate would be lifted was on the agenda for discussion.

Superintendent Robert Rizzo was provided Thursday with MediaNews Group photos from the Feb. 22 game which showed substantial numbers of audience

AUSTIN HERTZOG — MEDIANEWS GROUP The Garnet Valley student section at the Feb. 22basketball game at Spring-Ford High School can be seen to be largely unmasked.