Parents in Georgia’s second largest school district plan to rally again to try to force school officials to require masks amid a statewide surge in coronavirus cases that has disrupted classroom instruction for thousands of Georgia students.
The plans for a rally on Thursday by Cobb County school parents come as coronavirus cases in the Cobb County school system and other districts around the state continue to rise.
Cobb County has more than 100,000 students. District figures show 551 overall school-based cases of COVID-19 as of Aug. 13, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which reported plans for the new rally Tuesday. Dozens of Cobb County residents rallied last week for a mask mandate for students and staff. They were met by roughly two dozen protesters who want masks to remain optional in the district.
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