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This is what turns off parents. what turned off parents in virginia, in the glenn youngkin race, idea with government officials and school administrators, school board members lecturing parents oh, stop talking about this, stop worrying about this, this is a problem that does not really exist and the parents are saying wait a minute, i saw the instruction, i know it's going on. stop telling me it's not a problem when clearly it is a problem. >> shannon: if it's not a part of the instruction or something parents should be fearful about, then it shouldn't worry the other side that there is a ban...

>> reporter: ten minutes away from the virginia state capitol building where new governor youngkin was inaugurated this past weekend is richmond elementary school where an executive order he issued is getting panned. 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...

Every day that you take them out of school and as we see in chicago there's no remote learning plan here, that they are going to fall even further behind. >> i don't think there's any question. if this was march 2020, think a week, two weeks. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning. so each day definitely matters. each day. think about a kindergartener who started in 2020, and now 2nd grade. they have not had a truly uninterrupted normal school year. we are coming up on two years and it's because we have the new tools, we have the knowledge, it's not like we are throwing our hands ...

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...

Attended high school and back to 2nd grade, i heard martin luther king speech for the first time when i was seven years old and it meant something to me, taught us not to see beyond the color of the skin but the content of the character and kids are learning not the american dream but the new american nightmare that tells you you are a prisoner of the color of your skin. i think it's going to have bad long lasting consequences and apple has some questions to answer why they are interfering. >> trace: it extends from that, vivek, the oklahoma council of public affairs noted one of the guide boo...