Thu Jan 27, 2022 – 9:54 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Defying an executive order issued by newly-elected Gov. Glenn Youngkin that renders masks optional in public schools, several Virginia districts responded by suspending students who decline to wear a mask, segregating them into isolated rooms, and calling police on mothers who advocate for them.
After the issuing of Executive Order 2 on Youngkin’s inauguration day, January 15, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) went into action by joining a seven-district lawsuit against the order and directing their administrators to suspend students without face coverings as a new provision of the dress code.
With Youngkin’s order taking effect on Monday, handfuls of students arrived for school this week seeking to exercise their parents’ right to opt them out of the district’s mask mandate.
Luke Rosiak from the Daily Wire reported the scene from one school included a teacher peering through the glass of an exterior door wearing “a dark mask and a full-face plastic shield, resemble[ing] Darth Vader.” When “seeing a masked child out front, [she] opened the door a crack to let him in.”
Carrie Lukas, a mother of two children at Forestville Elementary School, arrived with her smiling kids
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