Former vice chairperson of the JCPS board Chris Kolb has voluntarily resigned his leadership position after tweeting an expletive at Kentucky state senator Whitney Westerfield. The tweet in question was this one, where Westerfield asked if anyone had considered the harm that a mask mandate would do to students.

Did anyone even speak at all to the psychological and educational harm to students wearing masks all day? I sure didn’t catch it if they did. So frustrating.

— Whitney Westerfield (@KyWhitney) August 10, 2021

In response, Kolb tweeted at Westerfield, “F*** you.” In the wake of the event, Kolb has resigned from his leadership position on the board, though he remains a board member representing District 2. The board’s chairperson, Diane Porter, said that Kolb’s comments  “do not reflect the expectations for individual board members or the board as a whole.”

This comes in the wake of increasing controversy over the use of masks in Kentucky. Governor Beshear recently issued a mask mandate for JCPS running into 2022, which is likely to garner backlash from opponents of the mask mandates and lockdown.

The problem is one that’s been rearing its head across the country– Florida’s school system and Florida governor DeSantis are having a standoff over the latter’s order that parents must be allowed to decide whether their children wear masks to school. It also comes as the Delta variant of the Coronavirus causes a nationwide surge in infections and hospitalizations.