Charlotte-Mecklenberg School board votes to require face masks- SC Gov McMaster wants to ban masks

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School board voted THIS morning to require face masks indoors at schools this fall. With the 8-1 vote, CMS became one of the few local school districts to require face masks for all students and staff when classes start up next month. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster this week doubled down on his own support of the ban on masks, noting that schools can’t get through any hypothetical loopholes by using other funding to enforce such a mandate. McMaster added that some experts have failed to listen to parents in the debate around how to best keep schools running during the pandemic. He has previously called it “the height of ridiculosity” for a school district to require a mask over any parent’s wishes that their child go without one. State legislation went into effect this month that bars school districts in South Carolina from using appropriated funds “to require that its students and/or employees wear a face mask.”