Mountain View, California – A 4-year-old boy was faraway from college by police after he refused to put on a face masks.
The boy’s father “Shawn” took his unmasked son to high school on Thursday and recorded the principal demanding the kid be faraway from campus.
The video exhibits Theuerkauf Elementary Faculty Principal Michelle Williams digging in her heels and asserting the boy must put on a face masks.
“I need him right here, however it’s our district’s coverage that college students should put on a masks,” the principal mentioned. “He’s a stunning youngster. We’re right here to help and serve him.”
The boy runs previous the principal and bolts to his classroom earlier than being eliminated.
“I can not maintain spending time on this identical situation… I’m going to have you ever faraway from campus in case you don’t depart right now,” the principal mentioned earlier than a police officer was referred to as to the scene.
Fox Information reported:
The daddy of a 4-year-old California boy in transitional kindergarten mentioned college officers referred to as the police Thursday in addition his son from class over his refusal to stick to a district masks coverage.
The daddy, who is called Shawn and requested Fox Information Digital to not use his final identify, mentioned he opposes the Mountain View Whisman Faculty District mandate. The kid, who shouldn’t be being named, was at school Friday after the district relaxed the coverage throughout a Thursday assembly.
“He principally appeared like a PTSD (Submit-traumatic stress dysfunction) sufferer,” Shawn informed Fox Information Digital about his son, who began transitional kindergarten final week within the San Francisco suburb. “He was inconsolable for about two hours.”
On Tuesday, Shawn’s lawyer, Tracy Henderson despatched Williams a stop and desist letter, saying the boy has been subjected to bullying, discrimination and harassment by district workers over the masks coverage.
“It’s time to let dad and mom resolve what’s greatest for his or her kids in relation to COVID,” based on the letter Henderson offered to Fox Information Digital.
She mentioned the boy begged to not put on a masks and was turned away in school throughout the first days of the varsity yr final week. Fox Information has reached out to the district.
On Thursday, the varsity board held a gathering the place they mentioned and relaxed the masks coverage. Starting Friday, the district can be shifting towards a “masks non-compulsory” coverage for college kids,” Superintendent Ayinde Rudolph mentioned throughout the assembly.
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