ACLU Is Suing to Allow Schools to Ban Unmasked Disabled Children From Attending

ACLU is suing to overturn a state law in South Carolina that prevents public schools from conditioning attendance on children strapping a piece of paper to their mouth and nose.

Hilariously it claims it is doing this to protect the access of children with disabilities to in-class learning.

1. First of all, are there no children with disabilities who don’t want to wear a mask? Many children are having difficulty enduring obstructed breathing for an entire school day. So much so that masked schools often have “mask breaks” to reward obedient students or just help all of them get through the day. One would think that disabled children —who already have to endure a level of hardship to attend — would benefit from normal breathing as much as children without disabilities, if not more.

ACLU claims this is for the benefit of disabled children, but in reality, it will result in many disabled children being barred from school.

The CDC and public health experts agree: Masking prevents the spread of COVID-19.

South Carolina has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and children under 12 still can’t get vaccinated.

State politicians cannot override federal disability rights laws.

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 24, 2021

2. Second of all, COVID is less of a threat to children than even normal flu. While it can be a concert to children with critical health issues like leukemia it is not more so than the flu. What kind of a precedent does this set? We’re never getting rid of the flu so so logically schools must have a free hand to condition attendance on muzzling until eternity.

And also why is ACLU demanding school “freedom” to ban uncovered pupils only now? Why has it not been demanding this since its 1920 founding since we’ve always had flu but have never allowed public schools to condition attendance on wearing of face coverings? 

Schools are obligated to give ALL students an equal opportunity to benefit from public education.

Refusing to follow public health guidelines disproportionately endangers students with health conditions that make them vulnerable to COVID.

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 24, 2021

3. The ACLU knows full well that mask mandates aren’t a surgical tool that is going to be used judiciously to try to help specific children with critical health conditions access education. They know full well it is going to be jumped by principals to cover their butts against the sensationalist and bloodthirsty COVID Rouge media, and by other principals who belong to the Virus cult movement themselves and are COVID virtue-signaling fanatics for their own personal reasons. (And by lazy teachers unions who love to have fewer students.) It will be applied en masse, without discrimination whether a certain class even includes a rare child at danger from such a normally mild disease. (Incidentally, that’s just how ACLU actually wants it.)

This is a disability rights issue.

Prohibiting schools from taking reasonable action to protect the health of their students forces the parents of children with disabilities to make an impossible choice: their child’s education, or their health.

— ACLU (@ACLU) August 24, 2021

4. Aside from its other weaknesses ACLU’s argument hinges on strapping a piece of paper to your face to protect against a virus being a “reasonable action,” and not something that is comedic when done voluntarily and grotesque when forced on by others. Its true colors really shine through here. It is obvious the people running the outfit are dying to pontificate about what “public experts agree” on and what a “reasonable action” face-diapering sacrifice rituals are. The Disabilities Act and claiming to speak for disabled children who will find themselves banned from school as a result of their actions are just a vehicle how left-liberals in charge of a nominal civil rights organization rather than a health think tank are able to do that.

The idea that sensible parents of a child who is *actually* so frail that he could be in danger from COVID are going to send such a child to school because other students are strapping pieces of paper to their mouths is absurd. 

The only parents to whom such a display would make a difference are the neurotic, overprotective, hypochondriacs with children who are not actually at risk, and who should not ever be encouraged and certainly shouldn’t ever be given power over what your own kids attach to their faces.

And God forbid such face coverings did actually do as ACLU claims and stopped germs. As we have understood for hundreds of years it is critical that children come into contact with pathogens and train up their immune systems at an early age when their organism is at its most vital and their immune potential at its most adaptive rather than having to attempt it in adulthood or middle age when doing so is more costly and difficult and was only a hundred years ago still often deadly. By concentrating many children in one place schools serve as critical avenues for training resilient and expansive immune systems. If masks actually were a “reasonable” way to “prevent the spread” of microscopic pathogens as ACLU claims then mask mandates truly would be children’s doom.