Posted on 01/17/2022 5:45:18 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Within hours of taking office on Saturday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin ended the state’s mask requirement in schools – part of a flurry of executive orders signaling a new era in Virginia politics and continuing the emphasis on education issues that appears to have ushered the first-time candidate into office.
Youngkin’s executive order stipulates that “parents, not the government” would determine whether students would wear a mask in schools. But the move drew immediate defiance from Northern Virginia school districts, several of which say they plan to continue requiring masks despite the order from Richmond.
School officials in Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax sent messages to families over the weekend saying that their policies would remain in effect.
“Arlington Public Schools implemented our mask requirement this school year prior to Governor [Ralph] Northam’s K-12 mask order, and we will continue to make decisions that prioritize the health, safety and wellbeing of our students and staff, following the guidance of local, state and national health professionals,” reads the school district’s statement.
Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand told parents that the district is reviewing Youngkin’s order, but would continue universal masking in the meantime. “Adhering to our layered prevention strategies, especially universal masking, keeps our schools open and safe places for students to learn,” he wrote.
In Alexandria City Public Schools, Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr. sent a letter to families on Sunday that made clear the school system would keep its masking requirement. He added that the district will distribute KN95 masks to students and staff.
Officials in Richmond, Henrico County, and several other jurisdictions across the commonwealth have also said they plan to continue enforcing mask mandates.
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Then parents, en masse, get to defy them.
Democrats do at they please, then tell us “no one is above the law.” Youngkin should send the national guard and jail them. We can’t continue with this “heads I win, tails you lose” crap.
Science
Cesspools! & they’re clearly blinded by their agenda & mental incapacities
They’re doubling down on stupid & hope they keep up this crap until midterms
Parents are pissed & have had enough!
If thugs in the Public School System do this, why can’t the AG or DA Criminally Prosecute every last one of them for:
Practicing Medicine without a License
FELONY Child Abuse
????
OTOH, VA gov can make it easy to sue school boards when they do this, which is very effective.
Miami schools are defying DeSantis’ order to end masking. The teachers’ union is behind it in Florida.
High paying gubmint jobs funded by our tax dollars.
And choke the commies with their own masks!
Yep, previously healthy athletes, with no history of heart troubles, are dropping like flies from heart trouble, data from multiple countries show the vaxxes aren’t doing squat against Omicron and that the vaxxed are geeting it worse than the unvaxxed on Omicron, and yet “science”.
Bull hockey. You don’t want to give up your power. You like being able to put those nasty, submissive muzzles on children. They don’t keep anybody “safe.”
“Youngkin’s executive order stipulates that “parents, not the government” would determine whether students would wear a mask in schools.”
That’s meaningless.
Does Youngkin’s order allow local schools or districts to require masks?
If not, will Youngkin enforce?
All the Governor has to do is fire the principals and teachers that enforce it, and let them know they can never teach in Virginia again.
The parents should file lawsuits against the board of education, the schools and the teachers individually. Let’s make it very expensive for them to play this game.
Still?
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That’s right.
How dare parents think they have a right or a say in how their kids are to be treated by the education establishment. What so these parents think? That those are THEIR own children? Don’t they realize the kids belong to the collective…. er state?
There’s a West Virginia, maybe its time for a North Virginia.
Or maybe just give it to D.C.
Send the state police.
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