BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The Brevard County school board will discuss the Florida Department of Health’s new COVID-19 quarantine rule at a special meeting Tuesday.

The board will decide whether to continue with the face-covering mandate with no parent-opt out option. The current policy defies Gov. Ron DeSantis' stance on having parents decide what is best for their kids.    

Board members will discuss extending the face mask mandate for another 30 days as they face more pressure from the state Department of Education to drop the mandates and allow parents to make those decisions for their children.​

Currently, the state of Florida​'s new emergency rule protocol gives parents the right to choose whether their kids will wear masks at school.

Florida's Departement of Health has already withheld salaries in Alachua and Broward counties for not complying with the no masks mandate.

The Brevard County school board is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 9 a.m.

Victoria Collis is a mother of four boys ages 11, 8, 6 and 3.

She spends her days at home talking care of three-year-old Alexander while the others go to school.

She's for mask mandates in schools, and has no issue with her children wearing them each day in class.

Collis believes, as we are still in the midst of the pandemic, masks should be required.

"Masks in schools, we would love for everybody to continue keeping each other safe," Collis said. "And wear their masks until we can at least get children vaccinated. They're not in school all day long everyday, they have plenty of time at home to take them off. They take them off when they are eating and drinking. Even our three year old has never given us a problem about putting a mask on."

Also on the table for discussion by the board is giving parents the decision to send their kids to school as long as they show no symptoms of COVID.

Collis says she will be following the proceedings very closely, and hopes those on both sides of the issues will find common ground.

"Hopefully, eventually this will be a moot point, and we won't have to argue about it anymore," she said.

Several parents who are against masks in schools declined to be interviewed for this story.