>> yeah. so before the announcement that parents could opt out of masks for children, it has been three weeks since kids went back to school in your district. were you seeing a large influx of cases? why did you decide that policy needed to change? >> well, we had guidelines from the governor of course, stating that we had to have everybody in the brick and mortar schools with only one option as far as a virtual school -- let me take that back. there was a virtual option, which we have a lee virtual. we had a florida virtual, and then we had homeschooling of course. there was an opt out for parents which we had to implement so they could actually opt out of wearing masks. but what we found is that our lee virtual school wound up filling up immediately. then we had the secondary, which