Exclusive: Virginia School District Suing Youngkin Over Mask Mandate Advises Removing Non-Compliant Students Using School Security

The Political Insider ^ | JANUARY 25, 2022 | Rusty Weiss

[george76]

Slides from a presentation to teachers at a Fairfax County Public School in Virginia indicate students who do not comply with mask rules will be provided a separate space and, if they remain non-compliant, may be removed by school security.

The news comes as seven school districts in Virginia, including FCPS, are suing Governor Glenn Youngkin over an executive order requiring schools to give parents a choice to opt out of mask mandates.

“Today’s action is not politically motivated,” the school boards stated in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “These seven school divisions would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with the governor to ensure the safety and welfare of all students.”

“We are disappointed that these school boards are acting counter to parent’s rights,” a spokesperson for Youngkin responded.

“The governor and attorney general are in coordination and are committed to aggressively defending parents’ fundamental right to make decisions with regard to their child’s upbringing, education and care, as the legal process plays out.”

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Virginia Mask Mandates.

Youngkin’s stunning victory in the gubernatorial race in November was seen largely as a referendum on parental control of their children’s education, something his Democrat opponent, Terry McAuliffe, opposed.

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I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” McAuliffe infamously said in the days leading up to the election.

Youngkin giving parents the choice to opt-out of mask mandates is a natural early response to voters, while the seven Virginia school boards don’t seem interested in giving parents that choice.

A long-tenured teacher at FCPS, who wished to remain anonymous to avoid potential reprisals, has reached out to The Political Insider, disgusted with the school district’s continued attempts to force masks on their students in spite of Youngkin’s executive order.

“I am definitely disappointed that FCPS is choosing to defy the governor’s executive order,” she tells us. “I do recognize that Omicron is easily transmitted and that is worrisome for many, but I also feel that wearing a mask or not should be the choice of the parents and students.”

“Staff and family members overly concerned about Covid can continue to wear masks,” she explained. “Those who don’t want to should also have that choice.”

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Isolate Students Who Do Not Comply..

The long-tenured teacher at FCPS provided this author with slides from a presentation delivered to school officials on how to handle students who defy their mask rules, in spite of the Youngkin order.

The teacher describes them as coming from “the principal’s briefing with FCPS leadership.”

One slide indicates students who refuse to wear a mask and have parents that are unwilling to bring them home as a result will be segregated from their classmates.

“A space will be provided to support students not wearing a mask,” the guidance reads.

It is remarkable how they word what is clearly isolation of a student from their peers as “support.”

A follow-up bullet point indicates that repeat offenders of the mask policy will need consultation from the region and “Special services (for students with disabilities).”

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The principal’s briefing includes a slide that discusses a “last resort” for students who won’t comply with wearing a mask in this particular FCPS school in Virginia.

“Consider engaging a trusted adult to attempt to persuade the student to comply,” the slide reads.

Forced coercion should go over very well with parents who are tired of school officials forcing masks on their children.

“If that does not work, and the student continues to defy directives,” the slide reads, “use your security staff to escort the student from the classroom to another area.”

Read that again. The school is threatening to have a child removed from class by security, presumably in front of their peers, for the crime of not wearing a mask.

Furthermore, the teacher advises, those removed from the classroom are to be marked “unexcused” which could potentially cause problems for both the student and the parent as it relates to truancy.

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The long-tenured teacher points out that the school district is using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for direction on their mask rules.

“FCPS continues to state that they are following the guidance from the CDC,” the teacher tells The Political Insider. “That guidance has changed constantly. Many no longer trust the CDC.”

“People have lost faith,” they add.

A new poll backs up this assertion, with just 44 percent of Americans having faith in what the CDC has communicated about COVID.

And when faith and trust are lost, today’s education authorities, at least in this instance, resort to coercion, segregating students based on mask compliance, and threatening them with security if they do not fall in line.

The Virginia school in question certainly does not want its efforts to force masks on children out to the public, with another slide in the presentation advising school officials to avoid interaction with the media.

“Do not respond to emails, phone calls, or in-person media requests,” one slide advises.

“As a caring culture, we work to inform and educate rather than engage in confrontation,” the school adds.

Caring cultures don’t force children to wear masks and limit parental intervention in their lives and education.

“When is the end in sight?” the long-tenured FCPS teacher asks. “Are we going to mask our students every year, only in the winter, when there is a random cold, flu virus going around?”

Make no mistake – we’ve traveled down the slippery slope these last couple of years – and, as such, any issue, no matter how low the risk is for children, will result in further debate about masks and/or distance learning.

Parents need to continue fighting back. And having the help of teachers who recognize the ridiculous nature of the mask and vaccine mandates would help in that battle.

[ifinnegan]

“Fire them.”

Are they state employees?

Arrest and prosecution seems the only means.

[george76]

Not about masks.

[george76]

Another reason to home school

[Reddy]

Kind of interesting how when conservatives are faced with laws they don’t like they usually abide by them, but when rats are faced with laws they don’t agree with they ignore them, flaunt them, and double down on defying them no matter what. We saw this with the riots while President Trump was in office.

How do you win against such evil?

[protoconservative]

Every school aged kid in America for the past 2 years has a really good lawsuit pending once the virus part of this is over, in what 4 weeks? Local Governments and the teachers unions failed one of the primary duties, create productive tax payers at a rate above the death rate of productive tax payers.

The victums, Their age is a their class, we had many fewer failures at guaranteed services at older age groups because there is a good 65 and over lobby, but we know kids 6-18 and their parents 26-40 dont have the political clout to stop themselves from being put over a barrel by the local and state systems in real time. The shortfalls are documented and the owners of each choice certainly took credit with each step. Each school district writing a check for 2 years of Junior Collage or trade school to 18 year olds for the next 12 years would be the social justice I would seek as a parent. The other choice is to cancel summer breaks for and extend the school year to 50 weeks, and accept the teenage substance abuse rate increase.

[packagingguy]

“People have lost faith”

We’ll I’ll be, how on earth did that happen? Maybe those who no longer trust the government and its patron saint, Saint Fauci of Wuhan, should be threatened with jail time because of truancy.

Then the apostates will return to the cult and follow like sheep.

[Jonny7797]

At this point, I put my kids in a private.

[olivia3boys]

It’s easy for those without teens or kids in school to just say “stop complying.” The kids and teens in school are at the mercy of the administration there, and kids don’t like to be ostracized and removed and suspended and expelled.

They don’t have the options adults do.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

If school boards do enough to have parents withdraw their students and send them to private schools they will have enough space for illegal immigrants. Clever approach.

[mewzilla]

Kids don’t like?!

That’s why God made parents.

[Maudeen]

I agree with you that people need to quit complying. . . .but https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2017/06/did-you-know-the-saying-god-helps-those-who-help-themselves-isnt-in-the-bible/

[mewzilla]

There likely won’t be enough room at private schools.

Parents will have to band together and plan on homeschooling til Big Ed blinks.

With a formal withdrawal, the money that goes with the kid is also withdrawn.

Parents have more power than they think.

They just need to stick together and damn well use it.

[olivia3boys]

I withdrew my kids from public last year: one to private and one to homeschooling. Millions of American families can opt for those options but more millions can’t or won’t. Big Ed has not yet blinked.

[mewzilla]

I know that. It was likely Ben Franklin.

But still appropriate.

If you’d like me to quote some Bible verses along similar lines, though, I’d be happy to do so. :-)

[lightman]

Aye.

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

[AppyPappy]

“Today’s action is not politically motivated,”

Translation: “Today’s action is politically motivated,”

[SuperLuminal]

So far, as the communists expected, the birth parents have only whined and complained... No real action has been taken, like a few hundred parents showing up at the school...

[Maudeen]

Smile!

[AppyPappy]

Localities can pretty much do whatever they want. They are going after Younkin because they think every school should have to mask up just like them. The mask shows which side you are on.

[bigbob]

Young kin should send the VA National Guard into the schools to enforce the law, just as was done in years past.