ashgael

Mask mandates should not be necessary. Putting on a medical mask when you are sick or during an epidemic when you are not vaccinated should be automatic. Protecting not only your rights but the rights of everyone you encounter is a civic responsibility.
When did so many people become so selfish and even entitled to the point of thinking that their rights outweigh everyone else's? Outweighs their responsibilities to the people around them.
When did so many decide that their right to not wear something over their nose and mouth is more important then other people's right to health and life?
What happened to weighing your rights against those of the people around you.
When did you gain the right to put others in danger?
What happened to civic responsibility? To protecting everybody's rights and accepting that your rights do not extend to a point of infringing the rights of others?

That said,
A mask mandate in schools is really just an addition to the dress code. It is not much different than rules that bar tshirts with profanity, offensive images and other inappropriate language? Rules baring bandanas and baseball caps?
These are about the safety and sense of safety of the students.

Unfortunately, younger children really don't have much say in this mandate or not. How can a child wear a mask if they weren't given one to wear from home and do not have any at school to use.
How can a parent put making a statement about personal choice over civic responsibility above their child health?
How did so many become so selfish and self-centered?
I seem to hear a lot of me, mine, and my rights but nothing about responsibility or others rights and people like me is just another way of saying me.
A large part of society needs to wake up and grow up.