Posted on 06/09/2021 5:34:58 AM PDT by syriacus
School board members and parents in the Massapequa School District held a rally on Tuesday afternoon denouncing what they called threats New York State officials made to the district regarding the district's decision to be mask-optional on Monday as detailed in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control from the New York State Health Commissioner.
The group shouted "Bully" as they talked about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during the rally at John J. Burns Park in Massapequa Park.
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Jeanine Caramore, Vice President of the School Board, said state officials threatened the district by saying the state would force the district's students into remote learning, remove School Board members, terminate the Superintendent of Schools and more.
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Massapequa, along with the Sachem School District and the Patchogue-Medford School District, decided to go mask-optional on Monday due to Zucker's letter on Friday which advised the CDC that if the state did not hear from the CDC by Monday, all schools in New York State would be mask-optional. [snip] Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said on Tuesday since the vaccination rate in Nassau County is 76 percent, school districts should be able to make their own mask protocols.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7ny.com ...
To those that know, or have heard, “Matzo-Pizza” has a thorny history of the ‘warm fuzzy-cold pprickly’ attitude in general.
(an endearing term used by other residents of Long Island, especially those in Suffolk County.)
Is there a single school district in NYS that has stopped muzzling its students?
I can’t find one.
Here’s one brave place...
https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/pioneer-central-school-district-to-be-mask-optional
Western Upstate.
Figures. And I mean that in the BEST way. :-)
Sachem? Go Flaming Arrows!
Totalitarians do not like to see any restriction loosened.
IF the individual cities feel strongly about their kids not wearing masks, perhaps They should disregard the Cuomo directives. What is he going to do? Send the State militia to defend the indefensible?
Good Question.
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