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Dedicated and caring. more now from lucy cavanaugh. >> reporter: they are the faces of the future lost to a nation's violent present. jose flores jr., a 4th grader full of energy, his father said, ready to play until the night. lexi rubio, a little girl who wanted to go to law school just like her mother. >> my baby. >> lexi's family overcome as they recall her sweetness and to plea that her life has impact. >> all i could hope is that she's not just a number. >> one of 19 children that were all gunned down in a 4th grade classroom whose parents held on to hope they would hold their students o...

To felix and kimberly rubio. their 10-year-old daughter, lexi was a 4th grader here at robb elementary school. just very quickly, what had happened is they thought it was going to a great day. they had come to the school on tuesday morning because lexi made the honor role. there was a big award celebration. they were here in morning to celebrate that. they went home and 30 minutes later they got the call that there was a shooting. turns out that lexi's father is a uvalde county sheriff's deputy. you can imagine his heart ache. he hears about a shooting, rushing to the school and finds out that...

Mother of a 4th grader. >> your school district says we are not listening to the governor. >> right. >> we want our kids in our school to still wear their mask. how do you feel about that? >> i feel they are protecting us. they are protecting our kids i love it. >> notably, one of the governor's children goes to a private out of state high school that does are a mask mandate. we wanted to ask the governor about that. and about school districts in his state defying his order but our request to speak with him was declined. however, his spokesperson did send us a statement saying the governor is ...

Mask map date. >> reporter: jason is the superintendent of richmond's 55 public schools. here in richmond and a number of other school districts across the state, there is concern that without mask mandates, the spike in covid cases will only get worse. anna mason is the mother of a 2nd grade daughter at the west overhills school. she says despite her superintendent's stance, the governor's order which takes effect next monday is very concerning. >> feel really disappointed. >> why? >> because i'm scared. i am scared for my kid. i am scared for her classmates. yeah. i feel like this is -- what...

Before this year. our 6th graders were in 4th grade when they were last in school. um, and so, meeting the -- the bar that is kind of expected of a 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, whatever grader, they are being asked to meet that behavioral and developmental bar and that academic bar and they miss both of them so it is hard to meet the academic one, when you are still trying to figure out how do i stop being a 4th grader? >> it's 1:45 p.m. on a thursday. hi. >> hi. >> i'm evan. cnn, nice to see you. how are you? >> so what usually goes on in this room? >> so i teach language arts and evening language dev...