Wed Oct 13, 2021 – 3:33 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Captured in a video circulating widely on social media, a relieved elementary school boy shed tears of joy when his mother told him he would no longer need to wear a mask at school because she took the school to court over its mask mandate and won.
God Bless Them
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The emotional moment has been taken as a sign of hope that mask mandates and other COVID policies can be overturned through on-the-ground political pressure and reveals the heavy toll restrictive COVID-19 measures have taken on everyday families.
In the video, shared on Twitter by conservative writer Cassandra Fairbanks Sunday, the boy is met by his mother as he returns home from school.
“Can I tell you something?” the mother asked, greeting her son on the front lawn as he approached holding a mask in his hand and a soccer ball under his arm.
“So, there were some parents… some of my friends, who took the school to court. Okay? They took them to court, saying they can’t mandate masks,” the boy’s mother said.
Audibly choking
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