i want to wear it so like other kids won t be sick because of me if i have germs or they have germs so we won t spread it. i think it did more harm than any good really, actually if you really think about it. you know, wearing a mask all day long, being behind that, breathing their own toxins all day. so we hear from the kids, we hear from the parents, different points of view how they re going to handle all this. chuck, we do not know today in this school system, which has 47,000 students how many are masked and how many are not masked. and we probably won t know for sure because they re not taking that census. but just as a snapshot in osceola elementary school here, one of the fifth grade classes, we went in, we took a look. 15 kids in the class. six wearing masks, nine without masks, and the teacher wearing a mask. day one, first couple of hours. it could all change as it moves along. but really the political fight, chuck, that s unfolding here in florida and quite frankly el
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Daytona Beach, FL - Starting in the 2022 school year, the Osceola Indians and the Ortona Dolphins will become the Beachside Sea Turtles. That comes after the Volusia County School Board voted on the new name and mascot for what will replace both Osceola Elementary School and Ortona Elementary School in the 2022 school year; Beachside Elementary School. The new school will be built on the North Grandview Avenue site Ortona currently sits on, but Beachside will instead feature two stories and serve around 745 kids. Residents and the City of Ormond Beach originally approached the Volusia County School Board in February with a $1.95 million economic incentive to keep Osceola Elementary, saying the funds could go towards a complete overhaul of the existing school. But that same month, the school board voted no on the incentive and decided to move forward with their plans, which were made in August 2020.
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