Mountain View school booted 4-year-old for not wearing mask

In a sign the pandemic policy wars that have riven school communities still simmer, a Mountain View district that was among a few to mandate face masks in an effort to keep COVID-19 in check kicked a 4-year-old out of class over the last week for not wearing a mask in class.

“The policy still exists,” said the boy’s father, who like many parents, asked not to be identified out of concern the family will be mistreated for speaking out against a policy many in the district support. “I always wanted peace and a choice.” “I didn’t want to start the year off with a bunch of substitutes,” Blakely said. “The point is to run schools so kids can learn. If you don’t have a teacher there, it can’t happen.”

Mountain View Whisman’s policy says “masking for students and staff members is required indoors and optional outdoors based on current transmission rates” published by the CDC, and “will be required for singing/wind instruments and for all events, concerts and assemblies.” Though masks were optional starting Friday, they still will be required on buses, in band and choir, at large events and for campus visitors.

In the video, a woman identified as Theuerkauf Elementary Principal Michelle Williams offers the boy a mask as he runs past her to class. Williams tells his father “I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I want him here but it is our district’s policy that students have to wear a mask.”

He’s 4 years old! Geeez. He doesn’t understand what the hell the principal is saying. Having a officer come over was ridiculous. The father was calm and cool.

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