Posted on 09/28/2021 12:18:04 PM PDT by lightman
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster expressed concern last week over what he called an “aggressive use of school resource officers” to enforce mask mandates in the Charleston County School District (CCSD).
After a filmed incident in which a school resource officer warned a parent that he will call the Department of Social Services (DSS) if the parent left his child at school, McMaster formally requested that CCSD not use state funds to enforce its mask policies.
“Numerous media outlets have recently documented the methods being employed by the [CCSD] to enforce the district’s mandatory mask mandate,” McMaster said in a Sept. 24 press release. “Among other things, I am concerned that the district’s aggressive use of school resource officers may inadvertently create unhealthy, erroneous, and negative stereotypes of law enforcement officers, especially among our young children.”
McMaster addressed his request to Eric Mack, the chairman of the CCSD Board of Trustees, the district within which the James B. Edwards Elementary school in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, operates.
In the video taken at the elementary school on Sept. 22, the school resource officer tells the person filming that he will call the DSS, while the parent asks why his “kids can’t be here today.”
According to a press release from the Mount Pleasant Police Department (MPPD), the resource officer is identified as Ransom Walters, who was assigned to the school.
The MPPD said the officer became involved after the parent was asked to leave the school because his children were not wearing masks.
“If a parent abandons a child in any situation, notifications can be made to DSS so arrangements can be made for the child’s safety,” the MPPD said.
The MPPD said that the video shared on Facebook “was not of the entire interaction,” and that a review of the officer’s body camera showed the officer telling the parent must leave at the request of the school staff.
“If the parent left the children, then DSS would be called because of the children being left unattended at the school,” the MPPD said. “The situation was handled administratively between the parents and Charleston County School District, and the children were taken home by a parent.”
Andy Pruitt, media relations at CCSD, told The Epoch Times that CCSD is not using school resource officers or law enforcement to enforce mask mandates.
Mask policies are enforced using a reserve fund, which Pruitt said is money accumulated over time, not from the current state budget.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina had ruled unanimously in September in favor of legislation prohibiting local school districts from using state money to enforce mask mandates.
On Sept. 16, Mack said in a CCDS press conference that the CCDS Board of Trustees voted to mandate masks for employees, students, and visitors in all schools and on school buses beginning on Sept. 20.
“Students will be given a reasonable opportunity to comply,” Mack said. “However, those who continue to refuse will not be allowed to attend class with students who are wearing facemasks.”
To not violate state law, Mack said, CCSD is looking at how to implement the mask mandate without using state funding “in order to comply with South Carolina’s budget proviso 1.108.”
“We are working on the logistics of paying the salaries of all persons charged with enforcing this policy from moneys that do not impugn any state funds appropriated from the school funding allocations for the 21/22 school year,” Mack said.
“Students will be given a reasonable opportunity to comply,” Mack said.
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“Comply”. *The* word of 2021. Comply, comply, comply.
Great post! The hypocrisy runs large in this regime.
Acute Paedorouthoúniphobes!
(Irrational fear of children's nostrils)
I'm glad he's in touch with his feeling and willing to share them. He seems like a really sensitive new age man.
Meanwhile, he's apparently too busy meditating and practicing aromatherapy to DO anything.
Parents must not comply.
I read a report very early this a.m. from a “masky” place (possibly NYC, I don’t recall because I read it around 4:00 a.m.) where the hospitals have been filled with children with “stomach flu.” This usually refers to what are actually intestinal upsets resulting from bacterial infections. Doctors thought it was probably caused by mask-wearing, since children wearing masks touch their faces constantly, they use the restroom wearing their masks and then touch their faces or their masks - and the masks, when tested, were full of bacteria.
Parents need to fight back. This is not healthy on any level.
I saw a line of Kindergarden kids outside a school/indoctrination center waiting for a bus, all wearing masks. I got so ticked off I almost stopped to complain, absolutely outrageous child abuse. This has NOTHING to do with the virus and everything with training the kids to conform with government authority. If they are so damn concerned about the Covid virus, why aren’t they making the kids wear a mask for polio? What’s the damn difference? Both have vaccines. This is government under the criminal Biden tyranny indoctrinating kids to bow to government.
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McDisaster is the Lyndsey Graham of governors!
They aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
And publik skrewls are state-sanctioned child abuse.
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