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Pasco School Superintendent Kurt Browning told a Tuesday board meeting that once Gov.r Ron DeSantis order declaring a state of emergency expires, mask-wearing in schools will be optional.
A day after saying Pasco County Schools would not follow the county s lead by removing a requirement to wear masks, Superintendent Kurt Browning reversed track Tuesday and said masks in schools may soon be voluntary.
Browning told the Pasco School Board at a meeting that once Gov. Ron DeSantis order declaring a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic expires, mask-wearing will be optional.
DeSantis issued his original order March 9, 2020, and has renewed it a number of times since. It s set to expire April 26, unless the governor extends it or rescinds it earlier.
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A Pasco School Board meeting pre-pandemic. The president of the Pasco Association of Educators (PAE) claims reopening schools for in-person learning is an example of white supremacy, and compares listening to concerned parents to following rioters breaking into the U.S. Capitol. He even says concern over student suicide is an example of white privilege.
Scott Wilson, PAE president, made a series of unhinged, controversial remarks during a Pasco School Board meeting this week.
even with near-consensus from the medical community that it is safe to reopen schools with mitigation policies in place. The petition the union promotes baselessly calls in-person learning unsafe and unsustainable.