VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Volusia County School Board is moving closer to making masks optional in the classroom following a work session Tuesday where they agreed to consider the change.

The school board held a 3-hour work session Tuesday at 1 p.m. prior to the scheduled 5:30 p.m. regularly scheduled school board meeting. [TRENDING: Private school won’t allow vaccine | Musk warns of deadly Mars mission | Look up!

First supermoon of 2021] Some of the board members argued that it should be up to parents and guardians whether their children should wear face coverings.

Meanwhile, other board members said if the policy is rescinded they need to have the option to make them mandatory again in case there is another surge in coronavirus cases.

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Experts say reaching herd immunity will be difficult

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Volusia County School Board to consider policy making masks optional

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