Posted on 11/12/2021 7:31:23 PM PST by ducttape45
Eight-year-old Fiona Lashells has delivered a worthy example of standing up for your convictions against power-mad tyrants.
Soon after the Florida 2nd grader appeared before the Palm Beach County School Board and vowed she would continue to defy the school district’s mask mandate, the district dropped the mandate.
After national media pressure sparked by Fiona’s stand, and pressure from the DeSantis administration, the School District of Palm Beach County released a letter to the public explaining its decision to drop their mandatory mask requirement. The board described the change as a “face covering opt-out” for parents.
Fiona for months refused to wear a mask to school. Her mother created a website listing the litany of suspensions Fiona has been handed, which may result in her having to repeat the 2nd grade.
Fiona told the board members that being suspended was “not going to change” her mind, that she still has “the right not to wear a mask,” and that it is “not fair” that she is “getting punished because … the school board is not following the law.”
The 2nd grader also told the school board that she hoped “they all go to jail” for “doing this” to her.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order in July that prohibited mask mandates in schools. After facing legal action from proponents of mandated masking, Florida’s ban on school mask mandates was upheld by a federal judge on Sept. 15, with the court standing firm by rejecting an appeal to reconsider on Sept. 30.
On Nov. 5, Division of Administrative Hearings Judge Newman upheld the DeSantis administration’s block on masking children against their parents’ will.
In its letter rescinding the mask mandate, the Palm Beach school district also made it clear that “the COVID-19 vaccine is voluntary, and not required for students or staff.”
We should ALL be this brave!
This whole episode is worthy of being made into a small children’s book about what civic activism can look like.
Just a few pages. Lots of illustrations with captions.
This girl and Greta Doomburg should do a 5 round cage match, winner gets to decide US climate policy.
She persisted!
8 year manages miracle - talks sense into libtards 🤪
Kick ass and take names Fiona!
I’m proud of you!
I hope you learn to understand what Liberty is all about as you age. God gave it and nobody has the right to take it.
She showed more fortitude than many elected Republicans have.
“You all should be fired for doing this to me.”
That’s as good as Let’s go Brandon. Her parents raised her up right.
“You all should be fired for doing this to me.”
What a great line.
Applies to every damn fascist out there from the sphincter with feet to the smallest tyrant on a school board.
Fiona Lashells for president 2048!
I’ll see your Greta Thunberg and raise you Fiona Lashells.
At least she didn’t say “How dare youuuuu?”
(Good for her. Masks are nasty and should never be mandated.)
I thought she said, when I heard it, that she said they all “should go to jail” (not be fired). Maybe I heard wrong.
Here comes the nudes. Attendance may soar.
I think you’re right.
Shame on us, shame on us.........
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