Mon Nov 15, 2021 – 7:57 pm EST
GAINESVILLE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — After months of legal wrangling between the state government and school districts intent upon forcing children to mask up, all of Florida’s schools have now come into compliance with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates, marking another victory for the firebrand governor against coercive COVID-19 policies.
The development came after three school districts that had continued to defy Gov. DeSantis’ July prohibition on school mask mandates finally agreed to rescind their mask mandates after unsuccessfully challenging the governor’s order in court.
“I want to see my kids smiling, I want them having fun,” DeSantis said upon announcing his intention to sign an executive order banning school mask mandates in July. “We need our kids to breathe.”
Last week, the last remaining defiant school districts in Florida’s Miami-Dade, Broward and Alachua counties admitted defeat, lifting their school mask mandates after an appeals cour ruled in October the Sunshine State could continue enforcing its mask mandate ban.
On November 9, the Miami-Dade school district posted a notice to Twitter advising that “[p]arents of students in all schools, including K-8 centers and elementary schools will now be able to choose whether their children wear
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