Williamson County Schools Now Suspending Students for Not Wearing COVID-19 Masks on Campus

Tennessee Star ^ | 19/7/21 | Chris Butler

[Impala64ssa]

Nolensville mother says Williamson County School (WCS) System officials suspended her two children indefinitely because they won’t wear their COVID-19 masks on campus.

Both children attend Mill Creek Middle School.

Kristin Benton said her children’s In-School Suspension (ISS) started Monday. She said the WCS will only take her children back into regular school if they either agree to wear COVID-19 masks or sign a religious exemption.

As of Wednesday, they remain suspended.

Benton cited the work of an industrial hygienist who says masks are ineffective against the spread of COVID-19 and even cause harm when worn over long periods of time.

“As a parent it is my responsibility to protect my kids,” Benton told The Tennessee Star on Wednesday.

“I can’t in good conscience put my kids in masks knowing it could harm them.”

WCS spokeswoman Carol Birdsong said via email Wednesday that she could not discuss a student’s disciplinary issues.

Benton said her two children — in the sixth-grade and the eighth-grade — have no prior history of disciplinary issues at school. She said her two children, while in ISS, have access to computers and do schoolwork, but they do not receive any other instruction.

“My children are very bright, and I work with them a lot,” Benton said.

“They have excellent grades, but, in theory, if they reach a point where they are unable to learn the material on their own and are unable to then pass their tests and their quizzes then, in theory, they could be failed [for the school year].”

Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw ruled last month that Williamson County Schools could force students to wear masks, temporarily halting an executive order by Governor Bill Lee that previously made masks optional.

“Based on the record before the court, due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in Williamson County, including at plaintiffs’ schools, along with a significant number of students who have opted out, plaintiffs have likewise been denied access to a safe, in-person education experience,” Crenshaw wrote, justifying his decision.

Benton told The Star that some people have accused her of forcing her children not to wear masks at school. She said that’s not true.

“My daughter says ‘When I think about the future and where we could go if we don’t fight this then that brings a wave of panic over me,’” Benton said.

“My daughter also said ‘I realize that we have to fight it now so, that way, our future is better.’”

[Impala64ssa]

Aside from the ineffectiveness of masks, other than empowering some little dictators, have any of these nimrods thought of how the face diapers negatively impact kids with speech and/or hearing impairments? As it is have a difficult enough time trying with comprehension and communication. Seems like some ADA violations here.

[patriot torch]

Just show a democrat membership card and all would be excused. That’s the way this two tier government works now as a communist government.

[george76]

zero difference between masked vs. unmasked.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4001355/posts

[Kadric]

Makes no sense. The kids will not wear their mask so they are suspended but still required to report to school.

[P-Marlowe]

Unless the kid is covered in full viral PPE, he is not wearing a Covid 19 mask.

The school needs to pass out full viral protection PPE, or just forget about the idea of preventing the spread at school.

[Trillian]

The kids get to miss out on tyrants forcing masks and propaganda on them by abusive “teachers”. Sounds like a win win.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Even with hearing aids I have poor hearing. I just tell people with masks on that I can’t talk to them unless they take them off. And they all take them off. What a sick joke.

[cdcdawg]

The masks are as useless as the vaccines.

[mewzilla]

They aren’t useless.

But then they’re not really masks.

They’re muzzles.

[lightman]

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!

[metmom]

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[M Kehoe]

Hi.

What is a “Covid 19” mask?

A N-95 mask? A level 3 Hazmat suit? A space suit?

I have an idea. Why don’t you mask monkeys just wrap your heads in Saran Wrap?

It works.

5.56mm

[Impala64ssa]

Why don’t you mask monkeys just wrap your heads in Saran Wrap?
Yes! Make up a narrative calling oxygen a patriarchal cisgendered, White supremacist construct. Instead of "we can't breathe" they can chant WE WON'T BREATHE! Well, at least for a little while...

[WildHighlander57]

Impala64ssa wrote:

“Aside from the ineffectiveness of masks, other than empowering some little dictators, have any of these nimrods thought of how the face diapers negatively impact kids with speech and/or hearing impairments? As it is have a difficult enough time trying with comprehension and communication. Seems like some ADA violations here.”

Yep; I’m severely hearing disabled and don’t know sign language, and must lip-read to understand what’s being said.

When they mandated masks in the factory last year, people either wrote notes to me or cheated by pulling their masks down.

When someone pointed out my difficulties and went to the health & safety dept, that dept issued clear face shields & masks so folks could communicate with me.

School should issue face shields on glasses frames, and ditch the masks; masks don’t protect the eyes, only the nose & mouth.

[WildHighlander57]

ChildOfThe60s wrote:

“Even with hearing aids I have poor hearing. I just tell people with masks on that I can’t talk to them unless they take them off. And they all take them off. What a sick joke.”

Same here; I tell them “I’m sorry, I’m hearing disabled and read lips”.

Works 90% of the time; they pull the mask down and talk to me.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

This is terrible. Poor kids…

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Homeschool! They will thank you later.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Put the kids in a proper respirator used for spray painting pesticide application. Also get a spray bottle of liquid ass from Wall mart.com with instructions to deploy it near the teachers lounge & not to tell any of their friends cause they will blab & be overheard by staff!