Flagler County school students returning to class last August. (Flagler schools)
Florida schoolchildren are nearing the end of an entire school year under the impacts of covid-19, and administrators are planning for the next academic year.
But what’s in store for 2021-22 could become a divisive dilemma over whether kids, teachers and staff should continue wearing masks.
Already, school districts and families of schoolchildren are divided: Will masks be necessary or even mandated in the upcoming school year?
With an uncertain outlook of covid-19 and political connotations surrounding masks, classrooms could become a checkerboard, with some students wearing masks but others showing their faces.