CONWAY — In the longest public comment portion of a Conway School Board meeting in years, local citizens aired concerns Monday night about children possibly having to wear cloth masks for a second consecutive school year due to COVID-19. They voiced fears of long-term masking and asked the board to make masks optional when school begins on Sept. 2.

A parent and child gave a demonstration of CO2 levels during mask-wearing, while Center Conway resident Steven Steiner displayed his middle finger in response to possible mandatory mask-wearing during the first of two public comment sections, with the first one lasting 45 minutes.

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Budtron3030

Well at least we all know who the 32 biggest morons in the Valley are now.

Stormmy8

Mask up or stay home.

MEPD Ret

Or, if you think you need to wear a mask, you stay home.

Why demure to the lowest common denominator?

So far, all of the reliable data points to children under the age of 17 as the least likely to be seriously impacted by Covid. That is a FACT!

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