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Virtual. like lamar county, some school districts and even major cities including chicago, washington, d.c., parts of san antonio, are swearing off virtual learning with few, if any, exceptions. hillsborough county, florida, thousands of students are quarantining that district ditched the pandemic-era virtual platform, leaving students at home with little option to learn how sustainable is the mindset of some districts and cities that they are not going to use remote learning at any cost? >> i t...

Hillsborough county. this is in the tampa area, and the school board here has decided to mandate masks for the next 30 days. that means that parents will not have the opportunity to opt out unless they can provide a doctors note, and officials here did that because cases are essentially blowing up. now, this district does have a dashboard, and according to the dashboard more than 13,000 students and teachers at the moment are out on quarantine. this is also in light of the fact that theyve had n...

>> i think quarantining deprives them of an ability to get an education. now maybe a parent would want a healthy kid to be quarantined if there is an exposure, but that should be the choice of the parent. >> reporter: an approach that flies in the face of public health guidance. >> we have a horl ob moral oblio keep children staff. >> reporter: and in oregon, all teachers, staff and volunteers have to be fully vaccinated. governor kate brown saying that children need to be in the classroom five ...

Probably 30 to 35 icu level care patients. and a majority are covid patients. its just so sad. i feel bad for the patients, i feel bad for the families that cant see the patients, but at the same time its preventable. its hard on patients, the families and also the staff, you know, trying to take care of these patients. its very difficult. >> the thing is its preventable. that is the most frustrating part. just south of you more than 19,000 students from floridas biggest school districts are qua...

Ron desantis recently signed an executive order to -- win threatening school districts with actions one. now, five counties are defying the governor and closing mask mandates for their. schools doctor carlee simon is the superintendent of alachua county. one of the districts mandating mask mandates. she joins me now, good evening. why did you decide to do this, why did you decide to defy governor ron desantis and his effort to not implement these kinds of mandates in schools? >> well i think tha...

Governor ron desantis and his effort to not allow folks to implement these types of mask mandates in schools? >> i dont think we were really focused on defying the governor. what we were focused on was being able to run our school system and reduce the transmission of covid as well as reduce our quarantining. and so it started with us having this mandate just for employees and visitors. but the next day the board did vote 4-0 to unanimously decide to mask everyone because we knew that this delta...

Enforce a similar mask mandate for students. protesters against the mandate yelling at our cnn crew while we were interviewing one concerned mother. >> its disrespectful to our children. its disrespectful to my kids. you cant get vaccinated because theyre not old enough. and its really, really upsetting that we have people like that, disrespecting people who just want to protect our kids health. >> reporter: nearly 1500 students and more than 500 teachers have tested positive for coronavirus in ...

Three u.s. senators are quarantining tonight after testing positive for covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated. senators hickenlooper, king and wicker each announced their break through cases today. today also oregon became the latest state requiring teachers and other school support staff to be fully vaccinated. meanwhile, texas and florida are at the center of an escalating battle over school mask mandates with president biden now directing his education secretary to use all of his oversight ...

Are about to go back into session, and were going to see in texas whats been happening in georgia and other jurisdictions where because theres not a mask mandate, theyre going to school for two days and then literally everybody is going home and quarantining. and so this notion that, you know, that its about freedom, well, nobody should have the freedom to infect other people and make other people sick. thats like saying, you know, that you shouldnt have to wear seat belts or you should be able ...

Whats been happening in georgia and other jurisdictions where because theres not a mask mandate, theyre going into school for two days and then literally everybody is going home and quarantining. and so this notion that, you know, its about freedom, well, nobody should have the freedom to infect other people and make other people sick. thats like saying, you shouldnt have to wear seat belts or you should be able to drive drunk. >> yeah. thank you, gentleman. be safe. ill see you soon. lets bri...