If a mandate can or can’t be put in place is irrelevant. Remember these are children. When I was in elementary school, it took almost two years for the teachers

If a mandate can or can’t be put in place is irrelevant. Remember these are children. When I was in elementary school, it took almost two years for the teachers at my school to get one of the students to stop regularly licking their classmates. In middle school someone in my school got suspended for intentionally, and repeatedly, shitting on the bathroom floors. I’m not even going to get into the antics from high school. I attended well-funded schools with reasonable class sizes. Ask any teacher and they will tell you these kinds of things are not particularly unusual. Younger kids are inherently messy and chaotic. Older kids live to test the limits and boundaries they are given – I would give it two weeks before the newest "game" going around somehow involves coughing into other people’s faces. Now, take that, and add in a percentage of parents actively encouraging their kids to disobey any rules about masks or social distancing.