The morning after the Round Rock ISD board of trustees voted to strengthen its mask mandate and remove the ability for parents to opt their children out of the policy without a medical or developmental exemption, Place 1 Trustee Jun Xiao announced his intention to resign at the next regular board meeting set for Sept. 16.
An Aug. 25 Facebook post from Xiao said he intends to resign, stating that he felt he had "helped some people with their campaign and paved the road for what happened after."
"I cannot dismiss the fact that I am largely responsible for the whole thing," Xiao stated in the post. "I tolerated bullying and intimidation as I lack the knowledge or interest in many of the discussion subjects. I ignored all the warning signs, betted on the transition to endemic happening by the end of the summer and didn’t bother to work on a plan B."
Xiao wrote that he felt the meeting the previous night came two weeks later than it should have and that misinformation had sown a divide in the community.
