Florida investigating school districts that defied ban on mask mandates

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Florida's education commissioner told the leaders of three school districts this week that he's investigating them for "non-compliance" after they defied state rules by refusing to let parents opt out of mask requirements for their children.

In letters sent to the leaders of the Alachua, Broward and Leon districts, and obtained by ABC News, the commissioner, Richard Corcoran, threatened to withhold money from their salaries and gave them deadlines to respond with a plan "to remedy this glaring non-compliance."

"There is no room for error or leniency when it comes to ensuring compliance with policies that allow parents and guardians to make health and educational choices for their children," Corcoran wrote.

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In a response to the commissioner, Carlee Simon and Leanetta McNealy, the Alachua superintendent and school board chair, wrote in a letter that the order to require opt-outs from masks was "an extremely inappropriate use of state authority." They didn't indicate whether they would change their policy to allow parents to opt out of masks.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-investigating-school-districts-defied-ban-mask-mandates/story?id=79400780&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

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Leon County Schools, on the other hand, have caved to the state's pressure, and are allowing parents to opt out of the mask mandate.

THIS IS PURE BULLSHIT.

My daughter teaches second grade, she and her students had to wear masks for the entirety of last school year (after they came back to school from online learning), and they're also under a mask mandate this school year. She has repeatedly told me how impressed she is with her second graders in that every single one of them goes about the business of learning and never complains one little bit about wearing a mask. It's not hurting them in the least to take this one tiny step to help keep themselves and their classmates safe.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. wtf is there to investigate, DeSantis issued his autocratic edict and the school districts...

gave him the finger. They contradicted the king of florida. Just needs a little more escalation so the school district can sue him.

[Xoan]

2. ooga booga ...

Dick

[sakabatou]

3. DeSatan and his demons want the virus to spread

[sop]

4. Florida's DeSantis will be remembered as the Orval Faubus and George Wallace of our time,

standing angrily at the schoolhouse door, playing to the ignorance of his supporters, gratuitously hurting schoolchildren simply to advance his own political ambitions. I hope DeSantis' recent press conferences are replayed every time his name is mentioned, attacking Biden and threatening local school administrators.

(For those who don't recall, in their day Alabama's Governor Wallace stood on the steps at the Univesity of Alabama, and Arkansas' Governor Faubus called out the National Guard in an effort to stop African-American students from being educated.)

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[monkeyman1]

5. ronny the mass genocide man !!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Companion headline: Florida Sees Highest Rate of Children Hospitalized With COVID in U.S.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142783537

Child killers in government, sooner or later.