Hundreds more DCPS students opt out of mask recommendation

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The fig of Duval County Public Schools students who opted retired of the district’s look disguise proposal grew by 1,300 successful the past 24 hours.

Through a nationalist records request, News4Jax learned that the online opt-out signifier was submitted connected behalf of astir 8,200 students arsenic of aboriginal Wednesday afternoon.

That fig represents astir 6.5% of the 127,041 students enrolled successful brick-and-mortar classes.

JUST IN | According to @DuvalSchools, 8,200 students person opted retired of the look disguise proposal arsenic of 12:45 p.m.

That's astir 6.5% of the full brick-and-mortar enrollment.#News4Jax @wjxt4

— Joe McLean (@JoeMcLeanNews) August 11, 2021

Heading into the schoolhouse year, 4,700 opt-out forms were filed, but by the extremity of the archetypal time of classes Tuesday, 6,900 students had opted out.

The territory announced the opt-out argumentation and made the signifier available conscionable days earlier the schoolhouse twelvemonth began.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics urge that everyone property 2 and older deterioration a look marque successful schoolhouse settings to assistance dilatory the dispersed of COVID-19.

The champion idiosyncratic strategy to combat the effects of the microorganism is to get vaccinated against it, according to the mainstream aesculapian community.

A DCPS spokesperson said the territory volition proceed to people daily, school-level information connected identified affirmative cases of COVID-19 connected its online dashboard.