spread to even more kids. >> absolutely. it is. it's spreading into the elementary schools. what happens is it starts -- when the mandate was passed for k through 5, the middle and high schools were left unprotected. it kind of rocketed right through the high schools as one might expect and then into the middle schools. we're starting to see that spread continue into the elementary school. the numbers have started to tick up. what we've also seen is the number of exemptions have grown over the last several weeks as well. the school district publishes both case counts as well as exemption counts by school. >> so is anyone having a change of heart after all these kids are testing positive and, you know, and as you say, one of them ending up in pneumonia in the hospital? like are parents now saying, hey, maybe we should get our kids to wear masks to protect not only them but others? >> that's a good question, don. on august 26th, they had another emergency school board meeting here. in that meeting, they actually