A private school announced on Thursday it will become the first in the Big Apple to make masks optional - even though Gov. Kathy Hochul has said the mask mandate for school children will remain in effect for the time being.Officials at the Poly Prep Country Day School - which has two locations in Brooklyn serving about 1,000 students, and charges $57,000 a year for tuition - sent an email to parents on Thursday to inform them of the policy change, which will go into effect next week.'In the past few weeks we have seen sharp declines in COVID cases at Poly and in NYC,' the email, which was posted online, reads. 'In addition, we have had minimal in-school transmission of the highly contagious variant.
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