School board meetings have become emotional battlegrounds for parents and local officials who disagree over mask and vaccine mandates as children return to brick-and-mortar learning.
Some school board meetings across the U.S. have gotten out of hand as the debate over masks in schools rages on.
Talitha Baker, a community activist in Arizona, called Ducey's financial incentive a"bribe" that's forced some schools to sacrifice face masks for money. She said that school board meetings have turned into a"circus" where people from out of the area have taken over. Love said a majority of parents in the district are in favor of masks.
But the first week of school led to chaos with thousands of kids isolated or quarantined due to COVID-19 cases and exposure across the state.over 10,000 students and staff were isolated or quarantinedIn a heated school board meeting last week one mother of a student yelled,"Have any children died?" as a result of the virus. Some people in the audience shouted back that children have.
Houston Independent School District, mandated masks on Aug. 11, a move praised by teachers in the city.
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