Chicago-area schools face 'warlike conditions,' with protests and student walkouts over the state’s mask mandate.
Against a pewter morning sky, a private plane glided over Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire Friday morning, pulling a sign proclaiming “D96, D103 & D125 UNMASK OUR KIDS!!!” as dozens of parents below rocked out to Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
“My children come home from school, and they start by washing their hands and changing their clothes, but they still can’t hold their baby sister,” said Vega, whose multigenerational household includes her 5-month-old daughter, Jesslyn, who is too young for the vaccine, and Vega’s mother, 61, who has diabetes and is in poor health.
Others, including Glenview School District 34, have opted to stay the course — a decision that has proved frustrating to parents like Daniel Tomicevic, a father of three whose 12-year-old daughter, Anastasija, had to spend the day in a former boys locker room at Springman Middle School after she declined to wear a mask in the classroom earlier this week.
“Maintaining masking at this time not only provides consistency as the appeals process plays out, it also allows us to use shortened quarantine periods and make use of test-to-stay protocols which, in turn, allow us to keep students in school, in person, as much as possible,” the District 34 spokeswoman, Cathy Kedjidjian, said.
“Some students were verbally assaulted by parent and student protesters while entering and exiting the building during a morning passing period. Additionally, we witnessed parents and students banging on windows by the Point entrance,” officials said. Jen Patel, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against District 34, rallies for mask-optional schools outside Glenbrook North High School on Feb. 11, 2022, in Northbrook.
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