Arguments broke out in a parking lot after a school board in Tennessee approved a temporary requirement for masks in elementary schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some parents may be torn, but the CDC's guidance is clear as cases rise among kids.
As debates over masks in US schools have reemerged as the academic year begins, the Board of Education in Williamson County, just south of Nashville, approved the mask requirement for elementary school students, staff and visitors inside all buildings and on buses beginning Thursday and ending September 21, according to information from the school district.
Mask debates resurface in some statesDebates -- albeit less heated than the verbal clashes in Williamson County -- have unfolded in recent weeks in Florida, where the governor has threatened to withhold salaries of school superintendents and school board members who institute mask mandates in defiance of his executive order that parents must decide how to protect their children in the pandemic.
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