Posted on Aug 20, 2021
The Topic Of Masks In Schools Is Polarizing Some Parents To The Point Of Violence
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Tom Leonard, the superintendent of Eanes Independent School District in Austin, Texas, is desperately trying to keep "mask wars" out of his schools.
But the subject of masking is so polarizing that parents are becoming violent toward the very people they entrust their children with.
During a back-to-school event this week, an angry parent ripped a mask off a teacher's face. Others yelled at a teacher who was wearing a mask, saying they could not understand her while her face was covered. Leonard had to write a note asking people to "be kind" to educators.
"I just do not want the mask wars occurring in my schools," Leonard told NPR. "I don't want my principals and teachers and bus drivers dedicating any of their limited bandwidth to fighting with either parents or kids."
"Take it outside," he said.
But fights like this are erupting across the United States.
Leonard said he has been talking with education leaders and friends in California, Illinois and New York who say similar issues are cropping up in their school districts too. "This is everywhere," Leonard said.
Tom Leonard, the superintendent of Eanes Independent School District in Austin, Texas, is desperately trying to keep "mask wars" out of his schools.
But the subject of masking is so polarizing that parents are becoming violent toward the very people they entrust their children with.
During a back-to-school event this week, an angry parent ripped a mask off a teacher's face. Others yelled at a teacher who was wearing a mask, saying they could not understand her while her face was covered. Leonard had to write a note asking people to "be kind" to educators.
"I just do not want the mask wars occurring in my schools," Leonard told NPR. "I don't want my principals and teachers and bus drivers dedicating any of their limited bandwidth to fighting with either parents or kids."
"Take it outside," he said.
But fights like this are erupting across the United States.
Leonard said he has been talking with education leaders and friends in California, Illinois and New York who say similar issues are cropping up in their school districts too. "This is everywhere," Leonard said.
The Topic Of Masks In Schools Is Polarizing Some Parents To The Point Of Violence
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What I don't understand is why some people who are looking at wearing masks as an invasion of their "Freedumbs" will act out publicly and risk their actual physical freedom being taken away by committing a violent act, such as invading someone's personal space and assaulting them by snatching their mask off, and risking jail. How does the ends they use justify the means? I just don't understand the logic of some of our fellow citizens.
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We cannot rationalize with the irrational. They engage what we refer to as primary process thinking. The former engages in executive and moral reasoning.
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This is just another clinical indicator of the US Second Civil War and indeed can be a life/death consequence.
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This is polarizing...My wife is a teacher and faces this everyday. When they started school it was optional for students, mandatory for teachers. The reason for the mandatory for teachers was that they need them in school and if a student got sick and had to go home the teacher could still teach from the classroom live stream. However, what they have found out is that these kids show up and after they have been there a couple of hours tell the teacher that their mom/dad is sick and they think they have COVID...well hell, go to the nurses office and go home. With parents like that sending their kids to school because they don't want to deal with them because they are sick well that is your dang job...keep them at home if your are sick because now they have been exposed and are exposing other students/teachers in the classroom on the bus and in the hallway...school is not a babysitting service...it is a mask, not a straight jacket...get on board. The violence that is associated with this is ludacris...if you don't want to abide by the rules then take your kid home and home school.
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