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Texas Teacher Cries, Compares Lack Of Mask Mandate To School Shooting

"We're tired of fighting parents" on mask mandates, she said.

Mairead Elordi
Texas Teacher Cries, Compares Lack Of Mask Mandate To School Shooting
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A Texas teacher recorded herself tearfully comparing the lack of a face mask mandate at her school to an impending school shooting in a TikTok that went viral over the weekend.

Jenny Gillis, a high school English teacher north of Austin, said this year she has had “my regular back to school anxieties,” but “this year there is this overshadowing apprehension.”

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