Hello Fellow Tae Kwon Doist’s

I am hopeful everyone is doing well and had been keeping themselves in shape during the Dojang’s closure. Per GM Sirois’s email we have been open now for three weeks with limited participation. We had a texting Board Meeting last night regarding the use of masks in the Dojang as it was one of the requirements upon our reopening. As many of you may know we typically fall in line with what the local school districts dictate, whether it be closure due to weather or in this case face mask use. Our neighbors in Massachusetts have a mandate that ends on 2/28/22 and the belief is it will not be reimplemented. That said there are several local communities in Southern New Hampshire which have already implemented a policy of personal discretion due to the decrease in COVID19 cases. After texting about this for some time the Board voted to remove mandatory mask use effective immediately and leave it up to our individual students to select mask use or not.

We all agreed that we should still limit our class sizes to 10 students and no gallery in the back of the school for the remainder of this month. I realize this may still present a challenge for some of the students or their families but we are trying our best to help keep everyone safe and get through these difficult times with as little disruption as possible.

The obvious is if you aren’t feeling well, have a runny nose, whatever, please stay home, exercise common sense and do not come to the Dojang. In my heart I know we are all sick of all of this but must remain vigilant and help one another to make it through. Thank you for your patience and understanding, train hard, train often!

Respectfully,

GM Drago

7th Dan USTIU

VP UTKD

VP USTIU