My experiences as a cashier in a high risk environment have a direct link to my tendency towards wearing a mask when I go out. It is not only because of my job, but also because of the high-risk people in my life in which I believe that mask mandates in the state of Illinois should stay in place until Covid-19 dies down. Firstly, a lot of members in my community, particularly, are asking the same question: “Do masks actually work against Covid-19?”...

They’re stationed at doorways, they patrol the halls, they monitor the parking lot and the campus - in short, school resource officers (SROs) are simply everywhere, all the time. As much a fixture of Prairie Ridge as the students themselves, their presence is wholly impossible to ignore.  Depending on the school, the students, the location, and the district’s funding, an average of anywhere from one to about five officers are usually assigned...