St. Johns County parents protestation extracurricular schoolhouse territory offices to telephone for disguise mandate.

St. Johns County parents protestation extracurricular schoolhouse territory offices to telephone for disguise mandate. (Copyright 2021 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Dozens of radical holding signs stood extracurricular the St. Johns County School District offices Tuesday greeting to telephone for a district-wide disguise mandate erstwhile students instrumentality to classrooms adjacent week.

Right now, masks are optional successful the schoolhouse territory but are highly recommended.

Similar demonstrations person been held astir the authorities aft Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an enforcement bid that bans schoolhouse districts from imposing disguise mandates. Though that bid is now being challenged successful court.

“Due to the astir caller summation successful COVID microorganism dispersed successful our community, I highly recommend the usage of look masks arsenic the schoolhouse twelvemonth begins,” Superintendent Tim Forson wrote successful a missive to parents connected Monday. “This is an important information successful our simple schoolhouse environments successful which the parents of students 12 years aged and younger bash not person the enactment for their children to beryllium vaccinated. Ultimately, we are expected to travel Governor DeSantis Executive Order 21-175 which acknowledges the parental close to marque decisions for their ain children related to look masks. This bid has been followed by exigency rules of the Florida State Board of Education and the Florida Department of Health.”

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St. Johns County parents protest, telephone for disguise mandateSt. Johns County parents protest, telephone for disguise mandate

The greeting objection was held earlier the St. Johns County School Board’s regular gathering astatine 9 a.m., though it’s worthy noting that the contented of masks is not connected the agenda.

This is, however, the past schoolhouse committee gathering earlier students instrumentality truthful galore presumption it arsenic the last propulsion to person the schoolhouse committee enforce what they judge is an incredibly important measurement for safety.

Those who reason disguise mandates for children were besides expected to talk during the meeting.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated passim the morning.

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