(NATIONAL FILE) – 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, which has become a symbol of resistance to unscientific COVID-19 policies, 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.
According to the Associated Press, the move will take taxpayer dollars earmarked for public schools and instead spend them in private schools. Teachers and unions have, predictably, used this to create “yet another flashpoint in the fight between local school boards and” Gov. Ron DeSantis. However, it appears that this move merely incentivizes schools to drop unscientific mask mandates.
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