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8-year-old prevails; School board drops mask mandate
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, ^ | November 12,2021

Posted on 11/12/2021 5:53:20 PM PST by Hojczyk

Eight-year-old Fiona Lashells has delivered a worthy example of standing up for your convictions against power-mad tyrants.

Fiona Lashells Soon after the Florida 2nd grader appeared before the Palm Beach County School Board and vowed she would continue to defy the school district’s mask mandate, the district dropped the mandate.

After national media pressure sparked by Fiona’s stand, and pressure from the DeSantis administration, the School District of Palm Beach County released a letter to the public explaining its decision to drop their mandatory mask requirement. The board described the change as a “face covering opt-out” for parents.

Fiona for months refused to wear a mask to school. Her mother created a website listing the litany of suspensions Fiona has been handed, which may result in her having to repeat the 2nd grade.

Fiona told the board members that being suspended was “not going to change” her mind, that she still has “the right not to wear a mask,” and that it is “not fair” that she is “getting punished because … the school board is not following the law.”

The 2nd grader also told the school board that she hoped “they all go to jail” for “doing this” to her.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: children; education; fl; florida; floridakid; mandates; masks; schools

1 posted on 11/12/2021 5:53:20 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

“The 2nd grader also told the school board that she hoped “they all go to jail””

LOL, me too.....


2 posted on 11/12/2021 5:56:00 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Hojczyk

Well, I declare! “The system worked”, to quote Janet Napolitano.


3 posted on 11/12/2021 6:00:06 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Hojczyk

Given the State’s mandate against Covid mask mandates, this school board should face prison even if they’ve now relented.


4 posted on 11/12/2021 6:19:42 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Hojczyk

“Eight-year-old Fiona Lashells has delivered a worthy example of standing up for your convictions against power-mad tyrants.”

This little girl’s bravery should embarrass FR’s resident defeatists, surrender monkeys and Soros trolls, but they have no Christian souls so they can’t experience shame. All that’s left is exposing their fat, traitorous asses to ridicule at every opportunity.


5 posted on 11/12/2021 6:32:34 PM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: Hojczyk

They should still all go to jail.


6 posted on 11/12/2021 6:50:18 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: Hojczyk

Now that the mandate is dropped, she should start wearing a mask, just to stick it to them.


7 posted on 11/12/2021 7:13:54 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Hojczyk

When she reaches eighteen I hereby nominate her as a judge for the Nuremberg 2.0 panel.

She is gonna have some serious _attitude_!

Revenge is a dish best served cold.


8 posted on 11/12/2021 7:16:50 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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