VAIL, Arizona, April 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A school board walked out before a scheduled meeting Tuesday after a large number of parents protested the board’s requirement for children to wear masks in school. The parents responded by electing a new board and immediately rescinding the mask order.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) overturned the state-wide mask mandate for schools on April 19, announcing on Twitter, “Teachers, families and students have acted responsibly to mitigate the spread of the virus and protect one another, and our school leaders are ready to decide if masks should be required on their campuses.”
New: In alignment with @CDCgov guidance, I’m rescinding orders that direct K-12 schools to require masks. 1/
— Doug Ducey (@dougducey) April 19, 2021
Ducey’s executive order removed the governmental requirement for school children to wear masks but left the decision to impose or relax the mandate to the districts themselves.
The Vail School Board decided to maintain the mask mandate until at least the end of the current semester, claiming that “about 90 percent of parents support the mask mandate for their kids,” but scheduled a meeting to discuss options moving forward. Before the meeting was to be
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