December 18, 2021 By Laura J. Wellington
On the heels of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court throwing out the school mask mandate in their state as well as the recent declaration of Democratic Colorado governor Jared Polis that the COVID-19 emergency is over, I have to ask: when is the rest of our nation going to throw out the school mask mandate?
As a parent and teacher, I am truly sick of seeing my child leaving our car each morning with a mask covering his nose and mouth, especially when I know that when he returns back to the car later that day, his mask will be so contorted that he will look more like a duck than a child. The big gaping openings at either side of the mask are reality. How is this mask helping him fight contracting COVID?
It isn't. And yet, somehow, masks have become part of the school dress code. Let me tell you, having taught in a classroom recently, kids are not capable of wearing masks in a way that keeps them safe. If you locked them to their chairs and tied their arms together, and basically made them use only their ears to learn, that would be the single way you would have half a prayer of getting masks to do their jobs — if, in fact, they worked the way we continue to be led to believe. And even then, once those kids are allowed to put their coats back on to go home, they will have foiled all of the earlier preventative measures.
Remember, this is a cooperative effort, and
children don't cooperate well with masks........To Read More....
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