Tension Around Mask Mandates Palpable As Kids Head Back To School

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BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — This year’s back-to-school excitement has immoderate hostility mixed in. Tens of thousands of students successful the Baltimore country volition beryllium going backmost to schoolhouse successful the adjacent week.

Some districts are requiring each students to deterioration masks, but determination is 1 territory successful our portion wherever mask-wearing volition beryllium optional.

Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, Anne Arundel County and Harford County will require masks successful schools. Masks volition beryllium optional successful Carroll County.

Many parents have precise antithetic views connected if masks should beryllium required for kids.

“I’m perfectly good with it, as agelong arsenic they tin spell backmost to schoolhouse I’m happy,” says Sarah Holloway, a parent successful Anne Arundel County.

Another antheral told WJZ, “For the parents that don’t privation their kids to deterioration the mask, I deliberation it should beryllium their choice.”

During a caller schoolhouse committee gathering successful Anne Arundel County, a woman said a disguise would wounded her lad due to the fact that speechmaking lips helps his code therapy.

“We are the parents,” she told committee members. “We tin marque choices for our kids arsenic we person done since the time they were born. It’s my kid, my choice.”

Some parents who are against a disguise mandate protested during a schoolhouse committee gathering successful Harford County past week. Some were asked to permission the room.

Julie Hummer is simply a erstwhile schoolhouse committee subordinate successful Anne Arundel County. Hummer has watched different districts astir the state commencement past halt due to the fact that of COVID-19 outbreaks.

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“To me, this should not beryllium a precise hard decision. Number 1 precedence for schoolhouse committee members is the health and information of children, and each reputable aesculapian enactment and radical has recommended that students deterioration masks to school,” says Hummer.