‘Unscientific child abuse’: Nurse rebukes mask mandates at school board meeting

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Some parents said they will pull their children from the district and homeschool instead if masking is enforced.

Rose Williams

August 25, 2021

Anoka-Hennepin School District, the largest district in the state of Minnesota, updated its face mask guidance this week following 90 minutes of heated public comment.

At its August 23 meeting, the school board adopted a recommendation from the district superintendent to require masks on a case matrix model.

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‘Pro-freedom of individual choice’

An hour and a half of public comment resulted in almost 30 parents, teachers, grandparents, and concerned citizens sharing their recommendations for masking in schools. A two-minute time slot was allotted to each person, although many went over their time limit.

Roughly half of the public commenters were pro-mask mandate, and roughly half were anti-mask mandate, or “pro-freedom to choose,” as many residents put it.

“I’m not anti-mask or anti-vaccine,” said one woman. “I’m anti-mandate and pro-freedom of individual choice.”

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The school board cut the mic when one commenter refused to shorten his speech to two minutes. A critical care and trauma nurse and father of children in the district, he shared that he does not support masking, nor does he support COVID testing in schools or CRT being taught in the classroom.

Mandating masks would be “irrational, unscientific child abuse,” he said. After being asked multiple times to wrap up his speech, his mic was shut off, and both cheers and boos erupted from the audience.

 

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