The board finally folded and dropped the mandate. We forced their hand and reclaimed our right to choose because we refused to sit back while they pushed these policies on our kids. Stay sharp because we need to keep watching these people to ensure they never try this again.
November 22, 2021
Final supporters
Dear Mr. Hutcheson and KRHS Board of Ed,
This petition is a response to your letter to the KRHS letter dated August 12, 2021. In this letter you stated "On Friday, August 6, 2021, Governor Murphy announced Executive Order 251 mandating the wearing of masks for all K-12 students and faculty in the indoor premises of all public, private, and parochial preschool, elementary, and secondary school buildings." and "Be reminded that the Governor announced in June that students are expected in school for in-person instruction and that will be the basis for our reopening plan. As per the New Jersey Department of Education, schools are not allowed to offer a remote/virtual learning option platform for our students at this time. It's our intention to return to a more normalized school day, but as mentioned previously, we will be finalizing our plans over the next week."
Up until Governor Murphy’s release of EO 251, the July 28, 2021 communication to parents said that “Our goal is to open our doors in a more normal fashion with face coverings being optional for vaccinated individuals, and highly recommended for unvaccinated individuals. There are no current mandates that require families or employees to be vaccinated in NJ Public Schools, but of course we encourage all community members to do what they feel is best to protect their families from the COVID-19 virus and the more contagious Delta variant.”
We implore you as a District to use your power to request a STAY in opposition to the Governor's EO 251 and/or demonstrate a peaceful and willful disobedience by letting parents and staff members make their own decisions regarding masking. We encourage you to continue to educate the staff and students on hand hygiene and safety measures to prevent illness as always. Some more things to consider:
Teen suicide rates have increase tremendously in the past 18 months. ER visits for suicide attempts between the ages of 12 and 17 increased by 26% during summer 2020 and by 50% during winter 2021, the CDC found. US News reports “one of the most robust findings in the last 30 years of research on mood disorders is that disturbances in our social rhythms significantly increase the risk – even predict – the development of major depressive episodes”. We need to allow our teens to heal from this past year by giving them a semi-normal, mask optional school year.
Choices regarding health are a civil right grounded in the bodily autonomy, dignity, and privacy of the individual. Furthermore, one of the most valuable rights our children have under the Constitution is the right to receive a free and public education.
There are no long-term safety trials or clinical studies for daily mask use by children. In turn, there are studies showing that Covid is rarely transmitted in school and that children are at extremely low risk for both illness and transmission. A retrospective study across several states did not find sufficient correlation of mask mandates as a successful disease mitigation tool.
The CDC estimates for age stratified infection fatality rates:
○ 0-19 years; 0.003%
○ 20-49 years; .0.02%
○ 50-69 years; 0.5%
○ 70+ years; 5.4%
Symptoms reported from mask use within our own children include:
Headaches, migraines, lethargy, fatigue, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, bloody nose, skin lesions, rashes, and acne on the face, breakdown behind the ears, poor dentition – increased cavities, mouth sores, abscesses, canker sores, reduced ability to concentrate, cognitive decline, mental health issues, including anxiety and depression, difficulty learning, heat exhaustion, heat-related illness
The parents at KRHS love their school and want their children to continue to enjoy their public education. It is truly an amazing place for our children to grow and learn due to the teachers and staff at Kittatinny. We the local taxpayers believe that the ultimate decision-makers should be our families and staff members for themselves and their children. Please use your power to request a stay against mandatory masking and preserve masking choices for our learning community.
Thank you,
Concerned Parents and Taxpayers of KRHS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556964/
https://www.aier.org/article/masking-children-trag...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/.../commentary-masks-all-covid...
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://www.cebm.net/.../masking-lack-of-evidence-with.../
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240287
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
https://www.cochrane.org/.../ARI_do-physical-measures...
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/.../covid-19-face-masks...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
https://www.thieme-connect.com/.../html/10.1055/a-1174-6591
https://sentinelksmo.org/more-deception-kdhe-hid-data-to.../
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../everyone-wore-masks.../
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2030886
https://www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../02786826.2020.1817846
https://swprs.org/the-suppressed-danish-mask-study/
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 24, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2021
August 15, 2021
We are grinding toward one hundred signatures and the Board of Ed is definitely starting to notice. Get this link out to everyone you know because Hutcheson needs to see that we are not backing down on this mask mandate.
61 Comments
Children need the human action if seeing your face to learn and understand. This is the purpose of in school teaching .
If you think masks work then wear one and don't worry about those who don't. Let parent CHOOSE for their child.
By the scientific facts of the low transmission rate and contraction of the covid virus among kids. I feel that it should be up to the parents and kids to make that choice weather to wear a mask or not. Also I believe that it is creating a lot learning and social disability among many of are kids which could affect their lives as they become young adults . By now most all teachers have been vaccinated and as of scientific fact released by are government they should be free of contracting the virus anyway. We need to uphold are rights and freedoms for are children and give them the best education they deserve .
I’m in support of choice in masking decisions. This EO is an infringement upon home rule of the district and the role of the parent to make the seat decisions for their students.
NO! And stop pointing the thermometer at therefore head you’re just training them to get shot in the head if you must take their temperature have them hold up the wrist
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The school district and government do not coparent my children. I make the decisions that are best for my children . I do not want or feel they should be wearing masks.
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The board finally folded and dropped the mandate. We forced their hand and reclaimed our right to choose because we refused to sit back while they pushed these policies on our kids. Stay sharp because we need to keep watching these people to ensure they never try this again.
November 22, 2021
Final supporters
Dear Mr. Hutcheson and KRHS Board of Ed,
This petition is a response to your letter to the KRHS letter dated August 12, 2021. In this letter you stated "On Friday, August 6, 2021, Governor Murphy announced Executive Order 251 mandating the wearing of masks for all K-12 students and faculty in the indoor premises of all public, private, and parochial preschool, elementary, and secondary school buildings." and "Be reminded that the Governor announced in June that students are expected in school for in-person instruction and that will be the basis for our reopening plan. As per the New Jersey Department of Education, schools are not allowed to offer a remote/virtual learning option platform for our students at this time. It's our intention to return to a more normalized school day, but as mentioned previously, we will be finalizing our plans over the next week."
Up until Governor Murphy’s release of EO 251, the July 28, 2021 communication to parents said that “Our goal is to open our doors in a more normal fashion with face coverings being optional for vaccinated individuals, and highly recommended for unvaccinated individuals. There are no current mandates that require families or employees to be vaccinated in NJ Public Schools, but of course we encourage all community members to do what they feel is best to protect their families from the COVID-19 virus and the more contagious Delta variant.”
We implore you as a District to use your power to request a STAY in opposition to the Governor's EO 251 and/or demonstrate a peaceful and willful disobedience by letting parents and staff members make their own decisions regarding masking. We encourage you to continue to educate the staff and students on hand hygiene and safety measures to prevent illness as always. Some more things to consider:
Teen suicide rates have increase tremendously in the past 18 months. ER visits for suicide attempts between the ages of 12 and 17 increased by 26% during summer 2020 and by 50% during winter 2021, the CDC found. US News reports “one of the most robust findings in the last 30 years of research on mood disorders is that disturbances in our social rhythms significantly increase the risk – even predict – the development of major depressive episodes”. We need to allow our teens to heal from this past year by giving them a semi-normal, mask optional school year.
Choices regarding health are a civil right grounded in the bodily autonomy, dignity, and privacy of the individual. Furthermore, one of the most valuable rights our children have under the Constitution is the right to receive a free and public education.
There are no long-term safety trials or clinical studies for daily mask use by children. In turn, there are studies showing that Covid is rarely transmitted in school and that children are at extremely low risk for both illness and transmission. A retrospective study across several states did not find sufficient correlation of mask mandates as a successful disease mitigation tool.
The CDC estimates for age stratified infection fatality rates:
○ 0-19 years; 0.003%
○ 20-49 years; .0.02%
○ 50-69 years; 0.5%
○ 70+ years; 5.4%
Symptoms reported from mask use within our own children include:
Headaches, migraines, lethargy, fatigue, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, bloody nose, skin lesions, rashes, and acne on the face, breakdown behind the ears, poor dentition – increased cavities, mouth sores, abscesses, canker sores, reduced ability to concentrate, cognitive decline, mental health issues, including anxiety and depression, difficulty learning, heat exhaustion, heat-related illness
The parents at KRHS love their school and want their children to continue to enjoy their public education. It is truly an amazing place for our children to grow and learn due to the teachers and staff at Kittatinny. We the local taxpayers believe that the ultimate decision-makers should be our families and staff members for themselves and their children. Please use your power to request a stay against mandatory masking and preserve masking choices for our learning community.
Thank you,
Concerned Parents and Taxpayers of KRHS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556964/
https://www.aier.org/article/masking-children-trag...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/.../commentary-masks-all-covid...
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://www.cebm.net/.../masking-lack-of-evidence-with.../
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240287
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
https://www.cochrane.org/.../ARI_do-physical-measures...
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/.../covid-19-face-masks...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
https://www.thieme-connect.com/.../html/10.1055/a-1174-6591
https://sentinelksmo.org/more-deception-kdhe-hid-data-to.../
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../everyone-wore-masks.../
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2030886
https://www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../02786826.2020.1817846
https://swprs.org/the-suppressed-danish-mask-study/
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 24, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
August 17, 2021
August 15, 2021
We are grinding toward one hundred signatures and the Board of Ed is definitely starting to notice. Get this link out to everyone you know because Hutcheson needs to see that we are not backing down on this mask mandate.
61 Comments
I prefer my kid to not have to wear mask due to breathing issues and the known fact unless using proper mask they do not work
Children need the human action if seeing your face to learn and understand. This is the purpose of in school teaching .
If you think masks work then wear one and don't worry about those who don't. Let parent CHOOSE for their child.
By the scientific facts of the low transmission rate and contraction of the covid virus among kids. I feel that it should be up to the parents and kids to make that choice weather to wear a mask or not. Also I believe that it is creating a lot learning and social disability among many of are kids which could affect their lives as they become young adults . By now most all teachers have been vaccinated and as of scientific fact released by are government they should be free of contracting the virus anyway. We need to uphold are rights and freedoms for are children and give them the best education they deserve .
I’m in support of choice in masking decisions. This EO is an infringement upon home rule of the district and the role of the parent to make the seat decisions for their students.
NO! And stop pointing the thermometer at therefore head you’re just training them to get shot in the head if you must take their temperature have them hold up the wrist
Messenger amqgvfgcoof mqgvfgcoof http://www.g23mnhm35q88gkm5631sj7at5b97j0e5s.org/ [url=http://www.g23mnhm35q88gkm5631sj7at5b97j0e5s.org/]umqgvfgcoof[/url]
The school district and government do not coparent my children. I make the decisions that are best for my children . I do not want or feel they should be wearing masks.
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