Last Friday, the rectorate announced via a press release that wearing a mask in elementary school is made compulsory from Monday, February 22, until then it was only in middle and high school. Very quickly parents challenged this decision.
A petition was posted online and collected 955 signatures (Monday at 9:30 am). "If the benefit of wearing a mask by children remains to be demonstrated, the disadvantages or risks, they are clearly established, in particular by the WHO and many child specialists (doctors, teachers, school supervisors, etc.) », Wrote the authors of the petition who list several arguments to express their opposition to the decree. They also ask that the presidents of the COM of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth sign the petition.
In addition, a “collective of angry mothers” directly addressed the prefect of Saint-Martin. "We refuse to wear masks for our children, your decision is absurd and grotesque and the words are weak, how can you think that you can decide the well-being of our children?", He asks him while stressing that “For a year, no mask has been imposed on children and the Covid epidemic is very well managed in Saint-Martin, we are even in recession! The collective hopes for a quick response from the prefect; otherwise the mothers of the collective “will refuse to send their children to school”.
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