Fri Feb 4, 2022 – 9:49 pm EST
WASHOUGAL, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — A group of high school students are protesting Washington state’s mask mandates by refusing to wear masks in the hopes of jump-starting a statewide movement that will prompt a reversal of the mandate.
Cade Costales, a senior at Washougal High School and leader of the “Freedom Fighters” protest group, has been widely praised for a viral speech to his fellow classmates in which he urges them to remain respectful while explaining the ultimate goal of the protests.
“This is not an excuse for any of you freshmen and sophomores to disrespect your teachers. If I hear of anybody disrespecting teachers or staff tomorrow, that makes us look bad. We want this to be a peaceful movement. We are just trying to gain back our rights as citizens,” Costales told his classmates at Fishback Stadium on Monday, January 31.
“The teachers, in the end, are just doing their jobs. [The mandates don’t] come from them. [They] come from the state.”
Costales continued, “What we’re hoping is that they kick us out. This sounds bad, but we’re hoping that they kick us out, because they have
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