An investigation has been opened after it was found that masks were being taped to students’ faces forcefully by teachers in schools.
Parents are demanding answers following allegations that teachers forced middle school students in Colorado Springs to tape masks to their faces.
Academy School District 20 has said it will investigate the claims. More than 100 students and staff members are being interviewed about the situation.
A picture of a sixth-grader from Chinook Trail Middle School with a mask taped to her face made the rounds on social media over the weekend.
The child’s mother said she posted the picture to find out if other parents were aware of a “policy” of taped masks, and whether it had been done to other students.
“It’s a type of a restraint to me,” said Parent Stephanie M.
Stephanie told FOX21 News that on Friday she sent her daughter a picture from Timehop, an app that shares photos from years past, and said her daughter sent a selfie in return.
In that picture, her daughter was wearing a mask with tape on it. Stephanie said that’s when she started asking questions.
“With the mask mandates and everything… she likes them because they hide her face ’cause of acne or whatnot. What really made me sad was that she didn’t see what was wrong,” Stephanie added.
Stephanie explained that her daughter was only given one warning to keep her mask over her nose, or she would need to tape it to her face. The sixth-grader told her mom teachers have been enforcing this new policy for weeks.
“She said the teachers were wearing the masking tape around their wrists like bracelets and whenever someone’s mask would fall down, they would tape them,” Parent Tori Skeldum said.
“It’s sad that our world is coming to this and teachers would think it is OK.”
Academy School District 20 has had a mask mandate in place since September 27, because so many kids were forced to quarantine. But these parents think the district is taking it too far.
“It’s developing some sort of mentality in our children,” Stephanie explained. “Your face is you, that is how people know you.
They are just doubling down on hiding you and not letting you breathe and… it’s conformity to the extreme.”
The school district said in a statement: “Currently, we do not have concrete findings. As we know more, we will keep our community apprised. We thank our community for their patience and support as we take the appropriate steps to address these serious allegations.”
The district said an email was sent out to parents on Monday about the situation.
“We’ve heard rumors that students did it on their own; we’ve heard rumors that teachers handed out the tape; we’ve heard rumors that teachers joked about it, but the students got the tape.
There are so many versions of this story. That is why we need to actually talk with every single student and find out what really happened,” D-20 Chief Communications Officer Allison Cortez said.
As of Tuesday, the Chinook Trail Middle School Principal had asked to meet with Stephanie and her daughter to discuss what happened on Friday, but Stephanie told FOX21 News she declined the invitation. Instead, she is seeking advice from an attorney.
Her daughter will attend school online until the investigation is complete.
According to experts, the Australian study which claimed that mandatory masks stopped the second wave of coronavirus is total crap.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, people all across the globe have started using facemasks to prevent the spread of infection from one person to the other.
Also the government and health ministries of several countries are encouraging people to wear facemasks whenever they step outside their home.
But till date the efficacy of the facemasks in controlling the spread is not determined. So how effective are facemasks against COVID?
The pores in these masks are at least 1000 times larger in diameter (55 µm to 440 µm) as compared to the diameter of virus particles (60 nm to 140 nm).
Here you can find a list of over 30 studies showing that face mask are useless against COVID-19.
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Easy on the hype. “ONE SCHOOL” and you say ” America’s schools” . I WAS going to recommend you to my large list. not now
D – 20 (school district 20) says ‘we need to actually talk to every student’ …Really , u guys didn’t see the online photo of Stephanie’s Daughter ….Really , u guys didn’t talk to her Teacher – – so it’s going to take like six weeks or so to lawyer-up & get ur stories rehearsed ? Ladies & Gents , we may have a further developing story of how children do not belong to parents but to a higher level of Authority – the Academic Nanny-Knows-Best crowd . Good luck , America , u need some. …. …shalom,a.j.
@ fairlander That woman last week on the news saying “Home School, Home School, HOME SCHOOL NOW!!” was no joke. They want to cry about masks and tape ? How bad are they going to cry when the Gov starts force-vaxxing students in the public schools, … without parents permission or knowledge?? What then, when kids start dying of clots, inflamed hearts, strokes, etc ?? Why take the chance ? Everyone, everywhere, should be yanking their children AWAY from public schools. And for god’s sake, stop taking your kids to the pediatrician for “Well Check’s” when they aren’t even sick !! How many times will we have to read about parents being attacked by CPS just because they didn’t want to go along with some quack doctor’s unnecessary treatment recommendations ?