there is a growing divide over what to do about masks in the classroom. vaughn hillyard reports from florida on families and teachers caught in the middle. >> reporter: thousands of students are preparing to go back to school this week while covid runs rampant. >> it really concerns me. it really does. >> as parents square off with lawmakers and school officials over masks. >> it's a parent's choice, family choice, physician choice. >> reporter: texas will not have to contact trace positive cases in their classrooms napped florida governor ran desantis banning school districts from requiring masks and six other states are doing the same. >> let parents make the decisions and let the kid breathe. take yourself back to elementary school. did you want to run around on a playground wearing a mask. >> forcing some families to make hard decisions. >> i'll be home schooling this year because multiple open heart surgeries,