The School District of Palm Beach County has finally dropped its mask mandate. The district had previously suspended a second grader 38 times for violating the mandate. She may have to repeat the grade.
Life Site News reports:
Fiona Lashells is a student in Palm Beach County who just turned 8 years old. She took a stand against a school board policy that she believed was wrong. For months she did not wear a mask to school, even though it had been mandated by her local school board. The litany of suspensions she has been handed is available at a website her mother created outlining the experience.
At a school board event on September 22, 2021, Fiona told the board members that being suspended is “not going to change” her mind, that she still has “the right not to wear a mask,” and that it is “not fair” that she is “getting punished because … the school board is not following the law.”
She also told the school board that she hoped “they all go to jail” for “doing this” to her.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has battled with various school boards in his state which have mandated masks for students. He signed an executive order in July that prohibited mask mandates in schools. After facing legal action from proponents of mandated masking, Florida’s ban on school mask mandates was upheld by a federal judge on September 15, with the court standing firm by rejecting an appeal to reconsider on September 30.
The letter referenced a ruling by Division of Administrative Hearings Judge Newman which came down on Friday as the legal reason behind their change of heart. Judge Newman upheld the DeSantis administration’s block on masking children against their parents’ will.
As with many issues, the heart of this problem lies within the notion of public education itself. Clearly, our public system, K-12 through our best universities, has collapsed intellectually. Currently, the U.S. is surviving its terrible system but we plant in our youth an almost indestructible socialist taproot. Teachers will tell you breaking away is impossible. But education is legally and logically a private matter.
The central problem is acceptance of government control of our children. Parents also don’t feel they have a financial stake in education. School taxes are blended with property taxes and often are forgotten because they’re mandatory whether or not they have school-aged children. Students will improve when parents feel education is a financial acquisition. And parents will be more engaged when their private money is at stake.
The primary problem with the K-12 segment is it’s a monopoly in a nation where monopoly is considered a criminal enterprise for everyone else. Another major flaw is taxpayers, with no children in public schools, have no voice in where and how their money is spent. These people make up a vast majority but the government chooses for them. Taxpayer money also passes directly to colleges without regard to whether students succeed or default on their loans.
Public teaching has been fundamentally transformed into an enormous entitlement, and dispensing entitlements is the heart of the democrat strategy. Political corruption is a byproduct and easy loans have created colossal private debt, far beyond forgiveness or refunds. A solution is state governments may immediately allow per pupil allocations to any accredited institution according to parental choice. Many states already have such private systems.
Free enterprise education eliminates the ability to trample one civil right by supporting an opposing civil right. It also precludes indoctrination to unwelcome political agendas. School choice is defined neither by teacher nor the union. We need a robust free market able to deliver general subjects as well as specialties including athletics and arts. It’s a bad idea for any government to educate its children but existing government school facilities should be available for lease by private institutions.
Masks on children is not only stupid is actually endangers their health. Lack of oxygen is far more serious than covid virus that children mostly don’t get or only get a mild case of. Natural immunity is far more effective than a GMO jab.
Right. It’s not about the virus, anyway.
Keep on standing up for your principles,young lady! I’d like to see more adults follow your example!