Florida Parents Sue After School District Orders Students to Wear Masks All Day

Parents in Sarasota, Florida, are suing their local school district after officials told students that they would be required to wear masks all day in school.

Parents Amy Cook, Gustavo Collazo, Nicholas Eastman, and Catherine Gonzales signed onto the lawsuit filed in Sarasota County on Oct. 21, according to the Herald-Tribune.

The 59-page lawsuit named the Sarasota County School Board as the defendant.

Along with the state constitution, the suit invokes the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka race-based case that established that every child should have an equal right to education, the paper added.

“The policy of mandatory facemask wear for students of tender years leaves parents with little choice: subject their children to a policy that is not in the best interest of their child, or to be compelled to home school their children in a manner that is both separate and unequal, and also results in additional harms unrelated to COVID-19. Most parents cannot make such a choice, given their own work requirements,” the suit reads. “This ‘Sophie’s Choice’ is being foisted upon the citizens of Sarasota County in an irrational way, in violation of the Florida Constitution.”

The school board claims that wearing masks is required to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but almost no studies find that people under 30 speared the virus or as susceptible to it.

Per the paper:

The lawsuit argues that the onus is on the government to demonstrate that less “restrictive” public health efforts haven’t worked. And although the intentions of mask-wearing policies might be good, the lawsuit said, that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.

“Indeed, the greatest threats to our system of constitutional liberties may arise when the ends are laudable, and the intent is good – especially in a time of emergency,” the lawsuit reads. “In an emergency, even a vigilant public may let down its guard over its constitutional liberties only to find that liberties, once relinquished, are hard to recoup and that restrictions – while expedient in the face of an emergency situation – may persist long after immediate danger has passed.”

Let’s hope the parents win this one. These mask tyrants need to be destroyed.