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Parents have clashed with school boards about masking requirements in classrooms this fall, indicating the contentious debate about how to return to a pre-pandemic normal is far from settled.
“A lot of it is a microcosm of what you see nationally … it's either you are for masks and you think they help, or you think they're very harmful and they do no good,” said Tucker McClendon, member of the board for Hamilton County schools in Tennessee. “That's the spectrum we're on. There's no, ‘it worked, and now it needs to be gone’-type thing. It's ‘they’re ineffective, it harms children.’”