St. Johns County to mandate masks for school employees for 30 days

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – There volition beryllium a caller disguise mandate successful the St. Johns County School District, but lone for schoolhouse employees.

Superintendent Tim Forson successful a schoolhouse committee gathering Tuesday greeting said helium volition mandate masks for each schoolhouse employees for 30 days starting Wednesday.

“Some of our parents person said this, and we’ve seen this successful our connection is, it’s hard for maine to person my kid to deterioration a disguise if the adults are not,” Forson said.

Parents besides spoke retired during the gathering and said they privation the schoolhouse committee to reconsider its existent optional disguise argumentation for students.

Most said they privation St. Johns County to clasp an exigency gathering with wellness professionals and travel last night’s determination by Duval County Public Schools to mandate masks with a aesculapian opt out.

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But the schoolhouse committee did not amusement an appetite for an exigency gathering connected pupil disguise policy, astatine slightest close now.

“I recognize those folks that privation to telephone an exigency meeting. It’s my content that astatine this clip we should conscionable intimately show numbers,” schoolhouse committee president Patrick Canan said.

Canan added helium believes defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bid banning disguise mandates, arsenic 8 ample schoolhouse districts successful the authorities person already done, is unlawful. That’s a question earlier the courts close now.

There were besides parents who backed the existent optional disguise argumentation for students, saying it should beryllium a prime for parents.

The committee said it volition proceed to show the lawsuit numbers successful the region and marque changes successful the aboriginal if necessary.

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