Duval County schools board member requests emergency meeting to remove opt-out for mask wearing

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Darryl Willie asks for gathering to beryllium held Friday

Duval County Schools committee subordinate Darryl Willie has asked for an exigency committee gathering connected Friday, with the nonsubjective being to sermon nary longer letting students opt retired of a face-mask mandate.

In a missive sent to Dr. Diana Greene and committee seat Elizabeth Andersen, Willie said it is clip to sermon information measures successful the aftermath of expanding COVID-19 cases.

“To date, we person a 4th of the cases (in 2 weeks) that we had the full 2020-21 schoolhouse year,” Willie wrote successful the letter.

“Our students and employees are becoming sick with a life-threatening virus, and an exigency gathering is needed to sermon this information and change oregon alteration immoderate argumentation that could assistance mitigate these cases,” Willie continued successful the letter.

School committee argumentation defines an exigency gathering arsenic 1 called “without astatine slightest 48-hour announcement to the nationalist for a peculiar contented erstwhile the Chairperson oregon Board members find that an issues is an exigency oregon urgent nationalist necessity.”