Oklahoma third grader asks governor to 'help make schools safer' by allowing mask mandates

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'I worry about me and my friends getting COVID. And I am going to miss my first day of intermediate school because I don't feel safe at a school without masks right now,' the 8-year-old wrote.

"This is about personal responsibility, this is about freedoms," Governor Stitt previously said about the bill while it was in the process of being passed.

A third grader has written a letter to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt pleading for mask mandates in schools. In this photo, Stitt speaks during a roundtable at the State Dining Room of the White House June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C.Also reminiscent of these other states, school districts in Oklahoma have begun to defy this bill and implement mask mandates anyway.

"Today I have made the decision to adopt a new regulation that will also require face coverings to be worn on school property, in school vehicles and at school-sponsored events regardless of vaccination status," superintendent Dr. Sean McDaniels said in a letter to parents about the mandate."It's in her voice, it's how she feels," Derek Brown, Mona's father, told

25."I would just hope that if Governor Stitt reads the letter and that he feels a little empathy towards kids like her that have had a really rough year and a half."

 

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Neoliberals in media and government called for EVERY business to be shut down when Covid was far less deadly. The difference:. Trump was in office when Covid started and Neoliberals wanted the economy to tank under his watch.

Let the children wear a mask if they want to. But, masks should not be mandatory. That amounts to child abuse.

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