My daughter was attending a private Montessori school last January when our newly elected Governor (Glenn Youngkin) signed an executive order requiring ALL schools to make mask wearing optional. Our school did not comply, citing potential action on the matter from their accrediting institution.
My daughter was attending a private Montessori school last January when our newly elected Governor (Glenn Youngkin) signed an executive order requiring ALL schools to make mask wearing optional. Our school did not comply, citing potential action on the matter from their accrediting institution.
My daughter went to the chairman of the board of the school. She was 12 at the time. She informed them that she would not be returning to the school if they did not comply with the Governors order, and then proceeded to paint an intimate portrait of “life in a mask” from the perspective of a child who had been relentlessly bullied about proper mask placement, how her peers liked wearing masks because it allowed them to avoid facing their insecurities, how the popular kids would be allowed to take down their masks in unsupervised moments but less popular kids would be required to keep them up.
The mask mandate went down the next day on the order of the board chair. Parents speaking up is one thing, but parents supporting their children to step forward and to speak up is not only more effective, it teaches the next generation what advocacy really looks like, as opposed to the lunatic screaming that we see on college campuses.
My daughter was attending a private Montessori school last January when our newly elected Governor (Glenn Youngkin) signed an executive order requiring ALL schools to make mask wearing optional. Our school did not comply, citing potential action on the matter from their accrediting institution.
My daughter went to the chairman of the board of the school. She was 12 at the time. She informed them that she would not be returning to the school if they did not comply with the Governors order, and then proceeded to paint an intimate portrait of “life in a mask” from the perspective of a child who had been relentlessly bullied about proper mask placement, how her peers liked wearing masks because it allowed them to avoid facing their insecurities, how the popular kids would be allowed to take down their masks in unsupervised moments but less popular kids would be required to keep them up.
The mask mandate went down the next day on the order of the board chair. Parents speaking up is one thing, but parents supporting their children to step forward and to speak up is not only more effective, it teaches the next generation what advocacy really looks like, as opposed to the lunatic screaming that we see on college campuses.