School Apologizes for COVID-Oblivious Football Event After Photos Draw Scathing Responses

An Oklahoma school district provided an apology Sunday after facing scathing reaction for posting an image of a football event revealing students and athletes neither wearing masks nor social distancing. There were too many high school trainees without masks and too many high school trainees in close contact with one another,” Jenks Public Schools wrote in a Facebook post.

The apology provided on Sunday comes a day after the school’s Facebook page revealed a picture of students and professional athletes celebrating a current victory, apparently unconcerned to mitigation efforts versus the continuous COVID-19 pandemic.

The post on Saturday featured four images showing players, coaches, staff, cheerleaders and trainees crowded together on the field and in the stands, with extremely couple of masks in sight.

After posting the picture on Saturday, the school dealt with severe backlash, with many members of the community slamming the school for permitting the celebration to go on in the middle of increasing cases, deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19

” Extremely self-centered,” one Facebook user composed, while another comment read, “Their health care employees are overwhelmed, exhausted and some passing away, but let’s fill the stadium for a super-spreader game! Generous morons.”

” Super spreader occasion?” Another commenter asked.

An Oklahoma school district asked forgiveness Sunday for a COVID-oblivious football celebration after photos it posted online drew scathing responses. Here, an empty class is seen on August 13 in California.
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While speaking to the Daily Beast, Elise Ramsey, a 22- year-old alum of Jenks High School and a present student at the University of Tulsa, stated, “Health specialists have actually been publicly begging the community to do whatever we can to slow spread for several weeks now,” including that she was “frightened” by the post.

Jenks Public Schools directed Newsweek to the apology released on Sunday and stated it had no further comment at this time.

According to the health department of Tulsa County, where Jenks is located, there are presently more than 36,000 confirmed COVID cases, as well as at least 289 deaths, in the county.

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