A high school in Washington state separates students who refuse to put on face masks from those who have them on. These anti-mask students were removed from their classrooms and moved to a small portable where they would wait for their parents to pick them up. Report says.
Two students at Enumclaw High School in King County, who decided not to wear masks, told Jason Rantz that they were segregated from their mask-wearing classmates.
“The teacher came up behind me and said that I need to wear a mask,” said Dawson, a 17-year-old student ” … I said ‘okay’ and she kind of got closer to me and said like, ‘Do you really find this funny? This isn’t funny at all,’ and was kind of going off. So I turned around and stood right next to her and said like, ‘No, I don’t find this funny at all, but I’m not going to wear a mask.'”
Dawson’s 15-year-old brother Ethan, who is also a student at the school, told Rantz that he was removed from his classroom and moved to the portable over his decision not to wear face masks. Both students also said there were no Covid-19 rules inside the small portable, while there appeared to be strict COVID-19 rules inside the classroom. Moreover, the two students said a masked staff member was present inside the portable.
They told Rantz that there was no social distancing, nor did the portable dividers between maskless students. Dawson and Ethan said there were eight of them in the portable on the first day of school. Due to the mask policy, both students’ parents told Rantz that they will enroll them in remote learning since they don’t want to be wearing masks to school.
A mother of another student who refused to wear masks told Rantz that these maskless students weren’t being taught anything in the portable. After contacting District Superintendent Shaun Carey, the mother was told that she is free to move her child to another district if the student is unwilling to comply with the rules.
A spokesperson for the school district told Rantz that those rules are just temporary for the start of school to address those who oppose the wearing of masks.
