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Some said the masks are hurting children's morale and mental health ― and some said children get their masks dirty and put them back on, defeating the purpose. Some described the struggles that their children with learning issues or disabilities are having wearing masks, including a child with autism who struggles without being able to take cues from people's facial expressions.  "If you for one second could look at us parents and understand the conversations we've had to have with our children: the tears; the crying; the not seeing friends on the playground; the not seeing faces," said K...

St. Johns residents call for school district to end mask mandate in heated board meeting Published:  Tags:  St. Johns County Schools Operations After Winter Break ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Dozens of people flooded what turned out to be a heated St. Johns County School Board meeting Tuesday to call for the end of the district’s mask mandate for students in schools. Extra security had to be called to the chambers as more than 30 speakers stepped up to the podium and asked board members to make mask wearing for students optional as the number of coronavirus cases continues to decline amid v...

Some parents and students are calling the policy flat-out sexist for both its wording and enforcement as more than 80% of infractions over the last three years have been issued to female students, according to data provided by district officials.   A March 26 large-scale inspection of students' dress at Bartram Trail High School resulted in 31 students cited for issues such as the length of their skirts or exposed midriffs. All of the violations were against female students. The problem, critics say, is that verbiage in the policy, such as "modest," "not revealing" and "too distractin...