PASSAIC (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The public school district in Passaic County is not going to win any popularity contests.
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This week, the district announced it is reinstating (extremely popular) mask mandates, forcing innocent and healthy kids to cover their adorable faces.
Superintendent Sandra Montanez-Diodonet sent a letter on Tuesday stating that masks are required effective Wednesday for “all employees, Pre-K through grade 12 students, and visitors are required to wear face coverings in all district facilities, school grounds, and buses.”
The letter came after officials and the CDC reported Passaic among 10 counties that reached “high” levels of COVID-19 in New Jersey. Furthermore, the state reported 2,207 COVID-19 cases and 28 confirmed deaths Tuesday, the highest number of fatalities reported in a single day since Feb. 16.
Predictably, the announcement was greeted with intense backlash.
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Jewish social worker Justin Spiro tweeted: “The Jets will host 82,500 raucous fans tomorrow, just 4 miles from Passaic, where kids are again forcibly masked. Adults can drunkenly scream and cheer, but G-d Forbid a 4-year-old with autism be allowed to see a classmate smile. Sick and cruel”
He also said: “A Passaic third-grader with disabilities lost the last third of kindergarten, was stuck behind a useless Zoom screen for first grade, was forced to mask almost all of second grade, and now is forcibly masked again. Disadvantaged children always carry our burden. Unconscionable.”
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The Jets will host 82,500 raucous fans tomorrow, just 4 miles from Passaic, where kids are again forcibly masked.
Adults can drunkenly scream and cheer, but God Forbid a 4-year-old with autism be allowed to see a classmate smile.
Sick and cruel
— Justin Spiro, LCSW (@Jusrangers) December 22, 2022
A Passaic third-grader with disabilities lost the last third of kindergarten, was stuck behind a useless Zoom screen for first grade, was forced to mask almost all of second grade, and now is forcibly masked again.
Disadvantaged children always carry our burden.
Unconscionable. pic.twitter.com/V4PIXmOk9B
— Justin Spiro, LCSW (@Jusrangers) December 21, 2022
“Two weeks to slow the spread has turned into 2.75 years to flatten a generation,” American Federation for Children Senior Fellow Corey DeAngelis replied to the tweet announcing the mandate.
“I like that they’re public about the child abuse,” Twitter user Nicholas Austin said.
two weeks to slow the spread has turned into 2.75 years to flatten a generation.
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 21, 2022
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“This is anti-science, anti-child & just plain cruel. #Shame on ‘educators’ who impose restrictions on children’s learning, socialization & joy just because they can,” Twitter user Maud Maron, a Democrat congressional candidate, replied.
“For two years, parents witnessed the detrimental social effects that masks had on their children’s lives — which included difficulty building relationships with others because of an inability to read facial expressions, as well as generalized anxiety regarding crowds and proximity to others (to say nothing of the impact on educational achievement, such as reading and language comprehension problems),” Parents Defending Education told Fox News.
“Families are still dealing with the fallout from these policies, and will be doing so for years to come — so for districts across the country to yet again unilaterally impose mask mandates on suffering children defies logic. Different families have different levels of risk tolerance, and should anyone desire to have their children masked, they should be free to do so — but certainly not mandated.”
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No child should wear a mask to school. If all the children show up without masks and refuse to put one on, the schools will have to stop th enonsense.
Child abuse
At first my reaction was,how could they get away with this again!
Then I realized that most parents are sheeple……and the administration knows this full well ❕
SAD…..
Masked robbery in broad daylight, of common sense, of youth, and of taxpayer dollars.
“Decimated” means numerically reduced, not generically “attacked”.
People with self respect don’t care what the yoshvei kranos on Twitter say about them.
at least we can discuss it on Twitter… some breathing air
Keep voting for democrats remember elections have consequences!
Yes. Disposable masks save lives.
Wear a disposable mask – live forever.
Don’t wear a disposable mask – die a slow painful death.
It is precisely because adults won’t get vaccinated or wear masks that we are now having to bring back masks in schools.