A student in the Martin County School District in Florida attended a school board meeting on May 12 to give his account of wearing face masks during school. It struck a chord with me, as the mom to a fifth grader who, this year, has also been forced to wear masks during school, even in gym class, where the kids work up a sweat playing intensive games of castle ball.
"I just turned 10-years-old and I am a fourth grader at Felix A. Williams," the student told the school board at an emergency meeting. "I was expecting school to be a little bit different, in the beginning, but I didn't think it would stay this way all year long."--
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