School Administrators May Defy Masking Bans

New York Times: “With coronavirus cases rising sharply across the country, and new federal guidance that everyone, vaccinated or not, should wear masks in schools, some school districts in those states are imposing mask mandates anyway, despite the risk of financial penalties for defying the state orders.”

“In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said in an executive order last Friday that the state would take away funding from any district that infringed on ‘the fundamental right of parents to make health and educational decisions for their children’ by requiring students to wear masks.”

“But four Florida school systems — in Broward, Leon, Duval and Alachua Counties — have said they would retain or seek to impose mask mandates.”

”Defund the teachers” is probably not a winning strategy.