“I don't want that to happen to anybody because it's just so horrifying.”
When 12-year-old Lila Hartley heard her school district was not going to be requiring masks this school year as coronavirus cases were soaring in her home state of Florida, she thought of her 10-year-old brother, Will, who can’t get vaccinated yet.
So, Lila wrote a letter to the Duval County School Board advocating for a mask mandate for schools to keep her brother and other children like him safe, writing, “masks save lives, that’s a fact.” Lila said she wrote the letter because she wanted “school officials to see that parents aren't the only ones who are concerned, and that kids also want to be safe and keep everyone safe and keep our masks on.”
Matt Hartley, Lila’s father, who has organized rallies in support of requiring masks in schools, said his daughter “serves as an inspiration and just gives me more reason to fight.”
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