Arizona School Board Members Flee Meeting as Parents Protest Student Mask Mandate

Yahoo! ^ | April 28, 2021 | Zachary Evans

[definitelynotaliberal]

An Arizona school board canceled a meeting and called in police on Tuesday after parents entered the meeting to protest an extension of the district’s mask mandate. The Vail School Board, which oversees a district southeast of Tuscon, called 911 after parents pushed into the meeting room without wearing masks and demanded to rescind the district’s masking requirement for students and teachers. Around 100 parents, some apparently with their children, arrived to protest the mandate, with most remaining outside during the duration of the events. The district said local sheriffs advised them to leave because of crowd-control difficulties, however the sheriff’s office said the board decided to leave the meeting on their own, in comments to a local ABC affiliate. Local parents then held their own meeting and proceeded to “elect” a new school board to rescind the mask mandate. The election itself was illegitimate because school board members must be elected by the public, so the mask mandate is still in effect in the district. The protest came after Arizona governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, rescinded an executive order on Monday that required students at K–12 schools to wear masks. Ducey wrote on Twitter that he rescinded the statewide school mask mandate “in alignment with [CDC] guidance,” although current guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages universal mask-wearing in schools. Arizona school districts are now given the option to implement or rescind their own mask mandates. Almost all districts in the southern part of the state said they would continue to require students to wear masks, while many districts in and around the capital of Phoenix also kept the policy in place.

[Bonemaker]

Real Americans don’t do “mandates”.

[unixfox]

An Arizona school board canceled a meeting and called in police on Tuesday after parents entered the meeting to protest an extension of the district’s mask mandate.

How DARE the parents to question authority!

[EC Washington]

Great to see Parents fighting back!

[Seruzawa]

It’s one thing to sit in a back room and issue decrees. It’s another when those affected by these destructive mandates get in the fascists’ faces.

[FES0844]

Bravo!

[Othniel77]

Would like to know how this turns out. I saw the video of the parents electing themselves as school board and was inspired. But then I read the MSM report which didn’t mention the new school board. Will they be allowed to hold the positions I wonder?

[\/\/ayne]

Some of the parents are likely scientists and engineers; there are a lot of them working in that area. They probably informed the other parents of the junk science behind the wearing of masks which created a group that won't listen to propaganda.

Just guessing, but an educated guess.

[be-baw]

Paragraphs are your friend.

[Varda]

Just another reminder that it matters who gets elected to the school board.

PS - I never vote for teachers.

[dragnet2]

Around 100 parents, arrived to protest the mandate, however the sheriff’s office said the board decided to leave the meeting on their own, Local parents then held their own meeting and proceeded to “elect” a new school board to rescind the mask mandate.

Legitimate or not, that's flipping hilarious!

[rrrod]

Outstanding!

[fidelis]

It wasn’t all that long ago here in Arizona we would have lynched the varmints. Now we are beginning to rediscover what happens when a community gets fed up with the powers that be being to big for their britches.

[willyd]

They need to follow through and replace everyone on that school board... $4000 and 400 votes gets you on the school board.. either do it yourself or give $40 to someone you think can do it... don’t just hope the school board does what you want next time... they won’t.

[from occupied ga]

It appears that someone forgot the tar and feathers

[Boogieman]

Well, a mandate is not a law, so I just ignore them.

[I want the USA back]

This is not a matter for the police. Anyone who calls police for a no mask situation is a fascist. If you resist, you can be killed.

I hate what has happened to this country, in which ordinary citizens have discovered their inner fascist, and let it out and given it free rein.

[antidemoncrat]

“Arizona School Board Members Flee Meeting as Parents Protest Student Mask Mandate”

Just what needs to happen to get schools back to actually teaching kids and out of politics.

[redcatcherb412]

So in Arizona non legislated mandates are laws?

If so then what are suggestions, order, edict that are not part of a legislated process but just a single person or small ‘board’ of people with no legal statute driving the commands?

[StAnDeliver]

First, wow the article reads like Freshman Journalism 101 "How not to write a lede or use paragraphs to stage your story".

Second, "Local parents then held their own meeting and proceeded to “elect” a new school board to rescind the mask mandate."

HOW THE F--- DID THEY GET ELECTED? How are there 100+ angry people storming a School Board meeting and somehow not one of them had the courage to run, or create a group to defeat these Sineman mandarins?