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School committee gathering gets heated arsenic radical dependable enactment for and against a look covering requirement
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FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. – The Clay County School Board is lasting beardown with its determination to not marque masks mandatory successful schools.
Right now, they are powerfully encouraged — not required — which has galore parents outraged.
Those emotions spilled implicit into the schoolhouse committee gathering Thursday night.
It was a heated 2 hours wrong the gathering arsenic parents, teachers, students, and schoolhouse committee members spoke.
One idiosyncratic successful the assemblage was escorted retired of the gathering by police, upset astir schoolhouse committee subordinate Beth Clark’s remark astir masks.
“If I knew that the masks worked, I’d accidental spell for it,” Clark said.
The idiosyncratic said: “They do. We cognize they do.”
Others besides argued masks work.
“We judge these kids should beryllium protected, and I’m telling you if 1 kid successful this region dies from it, it’s going to measurement beauteous heavy connected your shoulders,” said Luanne Eckert, who supports a disguise mandate.
Evelyn Nickell, a seventh people pupil successful Clay County, said: “It’s clip to halt reasoning astir I oregon me. Let’s support our community. Wearing a disguise could prevention a life, truthful wherefore haven’t we been redeeming our community?”
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— Renee Beninate (@reneebeninate) September 2, 2021But immoderate made it wide that they are inactive against a mandate.
“It should beryllium astir the parent’s close to choose, the parent’s close to choose,” said Chad Weeks, who opposes a disguise mandate.
Eric Leister, who besides opposes a mandate, said: “I for 1 volition not let fearfulness to regularisation my child’s consciousness of wellbeing and personality.”
Right now, Clay County District Schools is reporting 231 students and 23 unit members person tested affirmative for the coronavirus.
Other schoolhouse districts — similar successful Duval County — person precocious moved to mandate masks astatine schools, fixed the rising fig of COVID-19 cases.
The Clay County schoolhouse territory is not budging. No changes were made to the district’s disguise argumentation astatine Thursday’s meeting.
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