Lawmakers Rethink Mask Policies as More Kids Quarantine

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\ Third-grade students in the Los Angeles Unified School District wear masks on the first day of school last month. Thousands of students are being placed in quarantine because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in schools, causing lawmakers to revisit mask policies.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information on Florida's ban on school mask mandates and to correct a reference to North Carolina's stance on masks..

Misty Russell, a mother of three, had just moved to Greenville, South Carolina, and was ecstatic for her 8-year-old daughter to attend school in-person in a new state and school district. But, after visiting her daughter's elementary school in August, she noticed most adults did not have on a mask, and her excitement turned into anger and fear, she said.

And last week, her daughter's class was exposed to COVID-19, forcing the child and her classmates to quarantine and transition to virtual learning.

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