WYOMING (VINnews) — A 16-year-old girl from Wyoming was arrested after showing up to Laramie High School maskless.
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Grace Smith sat with state Sen. Anthony Bouchard for an interview, in which she said she said police arrested her on trespassing charges, following her suspension for defying the school’s mask mandate and her subsequent refusal to leave school grounds.
In addition to her arrest, Smith says she received a $1,000 trespassing fine.
She called herself a “straight-A student” who has “never broken the law.”
“I would never choose to do anything wrong and I never saw myself sitting in the back of a cop car, handcuffed,” she said.
My children go to a small day school, which is the only frum school in our area. Last year, the school had a mask mandate for indoors and outdoors. My daughter was playing basketball and felt faint so she moved far from everyone to take off her mask so she could breathe. She was suspended for three days. The school never apologized. It’s sad what is happening in this world, when our children are deprived of air to breathe and non compliance ends up with suspension or even jail.
Please allow me to explain to those of you that don’t really understand what this is actually about. In order to challenge the law one must have legal standing. Many of these Federal mandates are unconstitutional. It requires strong, smart people like this brave young woman to put themselves in exactly the situation, without threatening anyone’s person or property, in order to gain legal standing to bring a legal challenge against these illegal laws.
This is EXACTLY the way a peaceful and productive protest works.
Kudos to this girl. We should ALL learn a lesson from her actions.
Welcome to Biden’s and reset evil dem-o-rats fascist America.
Dems are sick people.
Dems have lost every single ounce of logic, morality, and ethical standards.
Shame on them all
Schools can enforce dress codes but calling the police is going too far.
How is this evil? It’s a measure that has been implemented before due to an epidemic. Moreover, Biden hasn’t instituted a mask rule for schools. This is a school board decision in Wyoming, A RED STATE THAT VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY FOR TRUMP. By what logic is it a Dem/Republican issue if Wyoming is overwhelmingly Republican????
“Living in a free country does not mean we are each free to choose the laws with which we will comply”
Always remember! the people that hid Anna Frank obstructed the law and those that killed her upheld the law of a free country.
Everybody needs to calm down and stay safe. This seems like some sort of attention-getting device.
Let’s make mandates bec people listen very well when you force them. So smart
She was arrested for refusing to leave the school premises not because of a mask. She was suspended for not wearing a mask.
She had a choice.
Im not saying its ok but we do want our kids to follow school rules. Can’t have it both ways.
If it would be a 25 year old guy who decided to hang around a school and refuse to leave – wouldn’t we want the police to remove him??
Using mask mandates as a “Rosa Parks” moment is such a waste of breath. Save it for something important like banning bris milah, banning kosher shchita, or forcing work on shabbat/yom tov. Wearing masks is a simple public health measure that should be observed whether it is effective or not. It is a minor inconvenience, and an partially ineffective rule is not by definition an immoral one. Dina d’malchuta dina … for Pete’s sake!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Living in a free country does not mean we are each free to choose the laws with which we will comply. It means we are free to challenge the government thru the courts.
We’re each entitled to due process, which is why she will now be entitled to a lawyer to defend her in a court of law.
IMHO, she’s no better than the BLM looters.