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Virginia Governor Youngkin Responds to Northern Virginia School Systems that Refuse to Get Rid of Mask Mandates
GP ^ | Jan 16, 2022 | Joe Hoft

Posted on 01/18/2022 3:06:09 PM PST by upchuck

In a surprise to no one, the radical Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax school boards in Virginia are ignoring the state’s governor’s executive order to eliminate masks in their districts. Yesterday the new governor in Virginia signed an executive order eliminating mandatory face masks across the state like most sane states have recently done.

Now WTOP reports:

Virginia’s freshly inaugurated governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed executive orders removing school masking requirements across the state on Saturday afternoon. Since that moment, Arlington and Alexandria school systems have joined Fairfax County Public Schools in reminding families that masking policies remain in place.

Youngkin’s list of day one executive orders put the power to decide if students should wear a mask squarely into the hands of parents across the state.

“A child whose parent has elected that he or she is not subject to a mask mandate should not be required to wear a mask under any policy implemented by a teacher, school, school district, the Department of Education, or any other state authority,” the order said...

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


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See article for Youngkin's response.
1 posted on 01/18/2022 3:06:09 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Let the District of Columbia annex Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax. Problem solved.


2 posted on 01/18/2022 3:08:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: upchuck

He should have State troopers escort unmasked children into those schools. Notify the conservative media and let the administrators be filmed blocking children from the schoolhouse if they want to make a stand.


3 posted on 01/18/2022 3:13:30 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: upchuck

arrest them at home


4 posted on 01/18/2022 3:13:32 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: vikingd00d

Excellent idea!


5 posted on 01/18/2022 3:17:29 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: BenLurkin

Arrest them as being state insurrectionists. And if they emailed each other on this defiance charge them with conspiracy. Goose gander rules.


6 posted on 01/18/2022 3:18:59 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: BenLurkin

No...then they will want to be a state.


7 posted on 01/18/2022 3:31:30 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: upchuck

The left loves destroying the minds and bodies of children.


8 posted on 01/18/2022 3:34:51 PM PST by Trillian
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To: upchuck

Why couldn’t the response be in the first line/sentences of the article?


9 posted on 01/18/2022 3:35:11 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: upchuck

So the radical left continues to use our children as human shields.

How very Palestinian of them!


10 posted on 01/18/2022 3:36:02 PM PST by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the only one!”)
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To: vikingd00d

Great idea x2.


11 posted on 01/18/2022 3:53:39 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: upchuck

So what was his response.

The stupid site keeps flicking around because of ads and pop ups and is impossible to read.


12 posted on 01/18/2022 3:54:08 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: vikingd00d
"He should have State troopers escort unmasked children into those schools. Notify the conservative media and let the administrators be filmed blocking children from the schoolhouse if they want to make a stand.

This

13 posted on 01/18/2022 3:54:57 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: upchuck

Consider what a Democrat governor would do to them, and then do the same.

(Hint: the Dim governor would be considering reeducation camps).


14 posted on 01/18/2022 3:55:07 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: vikingd00d

Escort the kids. Arrest the administrators. A fair exchange.

In with the Future; Out with the Marxist-Lysenkian trash!


15 posted on 01/18/2022 3:57:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: metmom

It’s really a bad ad site. Bottom line as I read it is he said something cryptic that could meet anything. But he is doing more than most of them.


16 posted on 01/18/2022 3:59:30 PM PST by Luke21
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To: metmom

The GP site has been getting trashed up and hard to follow. So have Fox news articles.

Seriously considering dropping both from my FR items to read.

We need quality and clarity, not defacing BS ads.


17 posted on 01/18/2022 4:01:32 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: upchuck

Do to them what they do to us..
No knock raids and arrests


18 posted on 01/18/2022 4:04:53 PM PST by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: upchuck
Citing the state’s bipartisan Senate Bill 1303, the school system said that students would remain bound to mask requirements within their bounds.

This is likely correct. The bill expires on August 1st, 2022.

What Gov. Youngkin can (and should) do is have the Republican-controlled House of Delegates draft a bill that allows parents to opt out of mask mandates and then dare the Democratic controlled State Senate to go on record opposing it.

Many of these Democrat state senators live in districts where the parents are none too happy over these mandates, opposition to which was what got Youngkin elected in the first place.

If the senate bends the knee, Youngkin wins. If they stand firm, they'll have to explain their anti-parent stance to angry voters.

19 posted on 01/18/2022 4:10:32 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: upchuck
See article for Youngkin's response.

Why not just post the whole mess here?

It's not like Griftway Pundit is on an excerpt list.

20 posted on 01/18/2022 4:11:43 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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