THE STATE OF OUR SCHOOLS. My Teen Is On A School Sponsored Hit List - Over Masks

a reply to: ketsuko

Really?

Earlier this week, a federal court in Iowa granted a motion for a temporary restraining order that blocked the Governor and the Iowa Department of Education (DE) from enforcing the state’s ban on mask mandates in schools. This court ruling has allowed state school boards to consider mask requirements.

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Not in Iowa.

Besides, the OP hasn't said anything about her state's governor banning face masks in schools. It appears he/she hasn't, and the school board isn't violating any governor's executive order, in the first place.

a reply to: shooterbrody

Just like all the other children the principal sent similar emails about.

What other children? Did I miss something in the OP where there were other parents who wrote the same, or similar letter to the principal, and their kids also accidentally saw an email?

a reply to: Onlyyouknow

We are in uncharted waters here (so to speak) and your argument just doesn’t hold up.

Nope.

a reply to: shooterbrody

See post above...www.ames.k12.ia.us...

a reply to: ketsuko

Also in Texas.

We've been implementing this through the dress code for over a year," he said. "It wasn't an issue previously because the governor wasn't trying to prohibit masks. So, when we added masks to the dress code and told kids they had to have masks, a lot of schools did it through their dress code because it's simply a piece of clothing."Most recently, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against the Bexar County mask mandate in favor of Gov. Abbott. But Eichelbaum believes that in accordance with the Texas Education Code Chapter 11, the school board reserves the right to include masks in their dress code and at the present moment, the school district has not been sued. Despite the controversy, Paris ISD administrators haven't had any refusals to comply with the mask policy in the first few weeks of the school year, which Eichelbaum remarks is unusual for any dress code issue.

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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: shaemac

My daughter is now anxiety ridden of getting in trouble and she blames me. This has caused a rift between us.

Hmmm...

Sounds like your daughter didn't volunteer to be on the front lines of YOUR war.

This is the most BS deflection of responsibility I've ever seen. She was only doing what she felt was right for the mental health and future well being of her child and all the other kids in school. I can barely stand wearing a mask for less than an hour when I go out to shop, I can not possibly imagine being a kid at school having to wear those things all day.

I feel extremely bad for what kids are being forced to go through right now... the trauma and wounds caused by this will affect them for the rest of their lives. I can tell you right now if these rules were enforced back in the 90's and early 00's when I went to school, barely any of us would obey the rules. I would absolutely skip school every day and not care about the consequence.

The parents who refuse to speak up on behalf of their child are the real cowards here, every single person why just obeys the machine and refuses to say anything is complicit, and the reason why this nightmare has been allowed to go so far. So you can talk down to this amazing mother all you want, but she acted on her conscious and one day her daughter will understand that.

a reply to: shaemac

My daughter is now anxiety ridden of getting in trouble and she blames me. This has caused a rift between us. Pulling her out is not an option. She has less 2.5 months to go then she graduates. She is taking science labs (with dissection's and chemistry experiments) and cannot be homeschooled for that, this last minute. Plus, its her last 2.5 with friends before we move. I have taught her to be a rebel and ungovernable. But now she wont. They scared her. And she is pissed at me. And this has broken me. What they have done to her has broken me.

Let your daughter tell you when and how she needs her battles fought. If she's anything like you, she makes her own choices and it appears she is resentful that you continue to act on her behalf. What you do, how you feel, why you feel is absolutely sympathizable. However, she values her sense of judgment at least as much as you do yours. Especially if she senses that your methods are adversely affecting her quality of life, for the greater good or otherwise.

My two cents.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: loam

That's some twisted logic.

And yet, it's the OP's daughter who is suffering from Mom's actions.

Well, at least you're consistent with your fascist perspective. I imagine you're elated by the way things are going. Well done.

Some of us know better.

With respect to the OP's daughter, I hope a private or homeschool option is available to her. I'm pretty sure things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.

It is what it is. That's where we are now. So strategize on how to render people like this principal meaningless in your life.

We all have to play the long game now.

originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
She was only doing what she felt was right for the mental health and future well being of her child and all the other kids in school.

Her feelings are wrong, and it sounds like her daughter disagrees with her.

originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
I can barely stand wearing a mask for less than an hour when I go out to shop

Then you are weak. I wear one for 8-10 hours a day unloading trucks and running freight.

originally posted by: LordAhriman

originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
She was only doing what she felt was right for the mental health and future well being of her child and all the other kids in school.

Her feelings are wrong, and it sounds like her daughter disagrees with her.

originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
I can barely stand wearing a mask for less than an hour when I go out to shop

Then you are weak. I wear one for 8-10 hours a day unloading trucks and running freight.

So anyone that doesn’t think the way you do is wrong?🙄

…and anyone that can’t where a mask is weak?🙄

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: shaemac

My daughter is now anxiety ridden of getting in trouble and she blames me. This has caused a rift between us.

Hmmm...

Sounds like your daughter didn't volunteer to be on the front lines of YOUR war.

Kinda my thoughts as well.

I talk this kind of stuff over with my kid and let him decide if he wants to go along or not.

He recently requested a meeting with the principle (different matter), but on his own, his choice to address something that was bothering him.

He's 13.

a reply to: LordAhriman

Her feelings are wrong, and it sounds like her daughter disagrees with her.

You only think shes wrong because you dont agree with her stance on the mask/vax stuff

We all know where you stand, and youre all for suppression as long as it comes from the boot on the foot of your political alignment.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: shaemac

My daughter is now anxiety ridden of getting in trouble and she blames me. This has caused a rift between us.

Hmmm...

Sounds like your daughter didn't volunteer to be on the front lines of YOUR war.

OMFG....

As always, there you are... being you in full force. Hope you don't have kids that someone tries to indoctrinate into a cult, and in your efforts to protect them, you're seen as evil.

originally posted by: AScrubWhoDied
YOU did this, and you know it. You can try and blame whoever you like but in the end you know YOU did it.

Parents that use their children as pawns in their political games are absolute garbage.

But it's OK when governments do it, though, right?

yeah....

a reply to: Sookiechacha

The very idea of the school district being in the wrong is anathema to you, isn't it?

The parents, by all accounts, are against this measure, including the OP. Yet the school board ignores them, not only ignores them, but doubles down...

Yet the parents are the bad guys??

My parents would have gone ballistic. My Mom was, to put it mildly, fearsome when aroused to anger. This overstep by govt. would have done the trick. My Dad, equally so. Me? I'd have been "Go get 'em, Mom and Dad!!".

Specifically targeting children, because their parents are making waves and putting school officials and board members under pressure? (hashtag) that. It's wrong.

a reply to: LordAhriman

It's not that I can't wear a mask, I just refuse to live in an uncomfortable state to ease the irrational fears of those around me. I hate obeying stupid rules enforced by control freaks, and the truly weak are those who just allow themselves to be pushed around without saying anything. Moreover, there's no clear scientific data showing the benefits of masks, I've only seen analysis showing they do essentially nothing. Therefore I view it primarily as a form of political virtue signalling. Constantly seeing everyone with their faces covered is just depressing and causing immense mental issues for the next generation of people which will be leading our world. But psychotic control freaks clearly lack empathy and foresight.

a reply to: Sookiechacha

Did Mom not think that the principal would inform her daughter's teachers of her mother's stance on masks and her threats?

So targeted harassment and bullying is ok now


What was the mother’s threats? To stand up for choice?

Didn't she think her letter would effect her daughter's relationship with her teachers and her principal?

Still not a excuse for secretive target bullying. Instead of being a coward, the principal could have have met with the family.


Exactly what proof and science is there that school mask mandate effectively prevent the spread of covid?

Based on what balanced view offered by the school, on what training on types of masks, how to properly don, wear, and dispose of a mask. Offered by the school.

To wear a respirator at work I have actual training, training on the hazards, and have to pass a physical with chest X-ray.


In the face of propaganda…

a reply to: shaemac

Doesn't matter what the County does! Did you forget you're living in a State with a Communist Governor, or that the State government has been infiltrated with nazi marxists?

Colorado has gone to the dogs! Time to GTFO of this place! We are actively working on just that as I write this!

Colorado is not going to be happy until they make the whole state like Boulder! I can't even count all the money I've paid in property taxes here for exactly zero representation. We've got no county services (no gas, water or electric or telephone). Good luck calling the Sheriff for something, a deputy "might" show up sometime in the next couple days. Our FD is all volunteer, so no County there. We have to call and beg them to plow / grade the secondary roads. Sometimes it can take upwards of a week. We have to plow and grade our own road, all two miles of it.

So what do I get for all these property taxes??? Not a damn thing!! But they've always got their hand out.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: shooterbrody

Just like all the other children the principal sent similar emails about.

What other children? Did I miss something in the OP where there were other parents who wrote the same, or similar letter to the principal, and their kids also accidentally saw an email?

Yes you did.
If the staff is blatantly showing the emails to the students on the list to obtain compliance, there are others. That behavior does not simply materialize from thin air.
Interesting you back staff threats and discrimination.
How tolerant of you.

originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: ketsuko

Also in Texas.

We've been implementing this through the dress code for over a year," he said. "It wasn't an issue previously because the governor wasn't trying to prohibit masks. So, when we added masks to the dress code and told kids they had to have masks, a lot of schools did it through their dress code because it's simply a piece of clothing."Most recently, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against the Bexar County mask mandate in favor of Gov. Abbott. But Eichelbaum believes that in accordance with the Texas Education Code Chapter 11, the school board reserves the right to include masks in their dress code and at the present moment, the school district has not been sued. Despite the controversy, Paris ISD administrators haven't had any refusals to comply with the mask policy in the first few weeks of the school year, which Eichelbaum remarks is unusual for any dress code issue.

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Typical of power mongering tyrants, don't like the law, find a way around it.
I will be glad to see these jackasses pay legal settlements for their ignorant actions.
Ppe is never dress code.
If they knew anything about ppe this wouldn't be an issue.
Oh, that's right, it is simply about control and compliance.

Update:
They LOST in court already, lol.
The court agreed that the districts " lack the authority to issue or enforce a mask mandate in light of Governor Abbotts executive order GA-38."