ORLANDO, Fla. — As the future of face coverings in Florida's schools plays out in the courts, a mask mandate in Central Florida’s largest school district is now just days away from expiring. 

​Orange County Public Schools requires masks for all students and adults in its schools, but that mandate is set to expire Oct. 30. 

Some parents are calling for the district to extend the mandate, while others want it to end.

And while the Orange County School Board will be meeting Tuesday, the district's mask mandate isn't on the agenda. With face coverings in class now uncertain, some parents rallied outside the OCPS Educational Leadership Center on Monday to urge the board to extend the mandate. 

“It makes me very nervous,” said parent Jennifer Cousins. 

Cousins' four kids currently have to wear their masks in class. But with the district’s mask mandate set to expire Saturday, she’s worried that her kids could get sick with COVID-19 just from going to school.

“My two oldest are fully vaccinated but my kindergartener and my second grader are not eligible yet and it’s looking like it won’t be until sometime early next month before they can start rolling it out," she said. "So if we take away masks right now, they lose literally the only veil of protection they have against catching coronavirus in school and then spreading it around to everybody else.”

Putting that concern into action, Cousins joined other parents and local leaders in a rally, carrying signs and calling for the school board to extend out the district’s mask mandate until winter break.

But not every parent out at Monday's "Mask Up OCPS" rally agreed.

“We really should be the ones making the decisions for our children, we know them best,” said parent Jamie Beu. 

Beu has a kindergartener, a ninth grader and an eleventh grader at Orange County Public Schools. He said he wants to see the district let go of its mask mandate for good and believes the board may be running out the clock on its mandate.

“We’re not saying nobody should be masked," Beau said. "We’re all for if you want your child to be masked, fine, put a mask on your child. If I don’t want my child to wear a mask, I can do that as well. That’s freedom, that’s liberty."

But even without the mask mandate’s future on the next School Board meeting agenda, Cousins said she plans to be back out Tuesday for that meeting to call on the board to keep requiring face coverings in class, especially for the district’s youngest students.

“Because we’re looking at 100% under 12 are not vaccinated, that’s huge, very huge, and we need to protect them," Cousins said.

Spectrum News 13 reached out to all Orange County School Board members as well as the district for more information about the mask mandate, and to request comment in regards to plans for the requirements.   

Orange County Public Schools sent the following statement:

"Our current mask requirement remains in place until Oct. 30. All children and adults are required to wear a face mask during the school day while inside school board buildings or vehicles including buses. The mandate will not be required for any student with a note from a medical doctor, nurse practitioner or physician assistant; or an employee with a medical exemption. At this this time, tomorrow’s regularly scheduled school board meeting does NOT have the topic of mask requirements on the agenda.​"