<p>A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maryland</a> county is bringing back the school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mask-mandate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mask mandate</a> as the 2022 school year starts, citing an uptick in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> cases.</p>
<p>Prince George&#8217;s County Public Schools announced Friday that face masks will be mandatory again at all schools and facilities in the district.</p>
<p>The policy took effect on Monday, and it will stay in effect until further notice, the district said.</p>
<p>School officials said in a statement that the mask mandate is back in effect “in light of the highly contagious COVID-19 BA.5 variant,” and said the district is following county health department recommendations.</p>
<p>&#8220;When responding to public health threats like COVID-19, Maryland school districts have flexibility to determine mask-wearing policies,&#8221; the district said in its statement, which was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pgcps">posted</a> to Facebook.</p>
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<p>As of Friday, the CDC ranked the county&#8217;s COVID community level as high. Prince George&#8217;s County, less than 20 miles outside Washington, D.C., <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/as-school-mask-mandates-become-nearly-extinct-two-majority-black-districts-double-down-174549656.html">has about</a> one million residents, the majority of whom are black, and another 20% of whom are Latino. The county&#8217;s school district is the second largest in the state and serves about 130,000 students with a $2.3 billion annual budget.</p>
<p>In July, the district made face masks optional in Prince George&#8217;s County schools for the first time since the pandemic began, but Friday&#8217;s announcement reverses that decision.</p>
<p>Students return to classrooms on August 29.</p>
<p>In February, Maryland&#8217;s education department <a href="https://www.stardem.com/state-board-votes-12-2-to-rescind-mask-mandates/article_05d6236b-9889-5586-87c5-c647d9ddbc2a.html">voted</a> to return decisions about masking to local authorities.</p>
<p>The department heard from parents and community leaders passionately urging it to lift mask mandates in schools.</p>
<p>“You are teaching our students to fear their teachers, fear their friends, and fear the air they breathe,” one mom said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our kids suffer harm,” said Jamie Brenna, parent and spokesperson for Moms for Liberty. Brenna added that face masks exacerbate ADHD and have negative effects like &#8220;causing fear that if someone they love gets COVID it will somehow be their fault.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our students have benefitted both academically and in their social-emotional health by returning to in-person learning this school year. As a Board, and together with our staff and local health department, we need to be able to make this decision regarding the next step in our children’s return to normalcy,&#8221; wrote James A. Newcomb, Jr., president of the education board in Caroline County, in a letter to the state board at the time.</p>
<p>Many public school districts have been slow to part with mask mandates compared with local governments and businesses.</p>
<p>Last school year, parents and students across the country <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/students-walk-out-schools-over-mask-mandates-1677954">protested</a> mask mandates at public schools, demanding they be lifted, with students walking out of school en masse.</p>
<p>However, Prince George&#8217;s County is not the only county doubling down on school mask mandates even this late into the pandemic.</p>
<p>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest school district, reinstated its school mask mandate the same day last week.</p>
<p>Classes for students in the Philadelphia area begin on August 29.</p>
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