The Florida Board of Education determined today that it will provide private school vouchers to parents of students who believe face mask requirements amount to undue “harassment” of children.

Many schools in the United States are still requiring face masks to be worn by students, with only rare breaks, despite science suggesting that children not only are highly unlikely to contract COVID and experience serious symptoms, but that they are also highly unlikely to transmit COVID to adults. Parents in Florida…will now have the option to take their tax dollars to the private sector with a new voucher program that will allow children to attend private schools that do not require face masks…

The Board of Education rule “has the effect of law,” said board member Ben Gibson…If a parent doesn’t want their child to wear a mask at school, they should have that right.”

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Last week, DeSantis signed an executive order that appeared to ban face masks in schools, calling the CDC’s recommendation a “callous disregard for the physical, emotional, and academic well-being of our children.” He added that masks “may lead to negative health and societal ramifications,”…

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(Excerpted from National File. Article by Tom Pappert. Photo Credit: Unsplash).