Not sure how it is up in Utah's silly hat, but here in the Beehive State the K-12 mask mandate is a state mandate, not a school district one. So all the anger thats been directed at districts is misplaced. Granite School Districts board meeting last month had to adjourn early because a bunch of idiot children... errr... parents started screaming at the board about masks when the board can't really do anything about it. But hey, knowing how laws and regulations work (or basic parliamentary procedures) is so lame, amiright?
Sure, a district can choose how they want to enforce it; but with how sue happy society is, if I was the district I'd just follow the letter of the law. For example, there is currently litigation happening at a GSD high school right now regarding the outcome of the Student Body Officer elections. Yeah, really, its a thing. So just imagine the parental outrage from some quarters if GSD or Canyons said, "Yeah, F the state mask mandate! #freedakidz! YOLO!!!"
There's less than a month of school left and next year the mask mandate is gone. I think kids can handle that.