Kids shouldn t wear masks in school, Florida s governor says May 11, 2021 at 3:41 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 4:41 PM
Children should not wear face masks in school.
That was the stern message from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, suggesting that local school districts should get rid of their mask mandates which have been in place for nearly a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These kids do not need to be wearing these masks, OK? I m sorry, they don t, DeSantis said during a news conference at Christ the King Catholic School in Jacksonville. We need to be able to let them be kids and let them act normally. And that s what should be the case in the fall throughout the school year.
Even as a number of U.S. schools remain closed to minimize infections, districts in states from Alabama to Wyoming decided to ditch student mask mandates.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks Tuesday, March 2, 2021, during his State of the State address at the Capitol in Tallahassee.
School districts across the state can still decide whether face masks will be required following Gov. Ron DeSantis executive order. Some have already made that determination.
On May 3, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law an emergency preparedness bill that allows the governor to override local emergency orders.
Although the law doesn’t take effect until July 1, DeSantis also signed an executive order that banned local regulations immediately.
In the order, DeSantis said all local COVID-19 restrictions and mandates on individuals and businesses are hereby suspended. In a separate order, he ruled that all remaining local COVID-19 orders will be invalid as of July 1.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order that does away with local governments being able to enforce COVID-19 regulations.
School districts across the state can still decide whether face masks will be required following Gov. Ron DeSantis executive order. Some have already made that determination.
On May 3, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law an emergency preparedness bill that allows the governor to override local emergency orders.
Although the law doesn’t take effect until July 1, DeSantis also signed an executive order that banned local regulations immediately.
In the order, DeSantis said all local COVID-19 restrictions and mandates on individuals and businesses are hereby suspended. In a separate order, he ruled that all remaining local COVID-19 orders will be invalid as of July 1.