The data is what the data says in your post. Not arguing it. That said...
The Governor of Texas literally has BANNED schools from making it mandatory for the one population that cannot universally get the vaccine to wear masks. School districts are doing it anyway, and one district had the bright idea to make a mask a part of its school uniform to skirt said executive order.
The Governor of Florida has threatened to withhold state funding from school districts that require masks, while 10,000 of their students entered quarantine/isolation within the first week of school.
Parents are literally pulling their kids out of school down in Cobb County, Georgia because when parents were given the option to either have their kids do virtual learning or in-person, upon choosing the latter they found out that schools started relaxing safety precautions to a significant level as if things were back to normal.
^This shyt here is why the South is on the Summer Jam screen when it comes to COVID.