Delaware Dem. Senators Call Out Anti-Mask Parents Disrupting School Board Meetings

 As school boards across the nation hold their final sessions before class start, many of those meetings are being disrupted- pushed back or even being outright canceled.

 In districts like Caesar Rodney and Cape Henlopen, board members were shouted down by parents who say they refuse to send their students to school in masks.

Lawmakers say  adults who claim to have the best interest of children at heart have taken to “straightforward public health precautions as the target of their outrage.”

They say for an entire year-lawmakers and school boards heard from parents that kids needed to be in school to be best served.

They say they agreed and created guidance and laws designed to keep kids in the schools and safe while they were there.

They say school boards have tremendously important decisions in front of them and they say by delaying meetings or shouting down members- and preventing votes- parents are only hurting their own children’s safety and education.

“School boards have important decisions to make important things to discuss and it is important to hear from parents it’s important that they can voice support or opposition to policy talked about but not in a way that literally shuts down a school board meeting or delays a meeting it’s not productive,” said Delaware Senator Bryan Townsend.

He says there are legitimate reasons for parents to be concerned with how well their child will handle a full day of masking particularly for special needs students.

State Senator Townsend Says those are issues that smart programming and guidance from school boards can help to solve.

But they can’t deal with those cases or any other ones if vocal minorities continue to obstruct their meetings.