“I’m doing it for other kids and not just myself,” said Fiona.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (NewsNation Now) — A Florida second-grader has been suspended from school nearly 40 times after she refused to wear a mask in the classroom. Now her teachers told her parents that she has missed so much class she may flunk out of second grade.
Fiona Lashells, who just turned 8 years old, has been refusing to wear a mask in school for months. As a result, she’s been suspended 38 times. In July, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order making face masks optional in schools. But in local school districts like Fiona’s in Palm Beach County, mask mandates are still being enforced.
“You wear it for a long time and you breathe in all those germs,” Fiona said to NewsNation. “You set it down at lunch and put it back on your face and breathed that all in all day long.”
Now every time Fiona refuses to wear a mask, she is suspended and sent home with a note explaining why. more
DeSantis needs to officially honor this little girl.
Fiona already has the temerity & wherewithal of students twice her age…
Well done!
If only most adults were this brave.
Don’t the left say “even if it would save one child?” I guess that means as long as the child follows our rules.
I am not shocked. They just want to control you and everyone else.
Whutever happened to three times and yer out?
The kid should be behind bars for good by now!
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These dumbass teachers and administrators need to be fired for child abuse!
The ones who really need to be flunked are the administrators and teachers who promote all this COVID bs.
Schools don’t hold back kids anymore – it might damage their tiny egos. Social advancement!
@ Anonymous
NOVEMBER 11, 2021 AT 3:00 PM,
or smart…
Whatever happened to “Question authority” and “Speak truth to power” and “Get in their faces”? Asking for a friend.
If this kid had done that when Trump was President, she’d be featured and feted on all the networks, and given some sort of hero award by Congress.
Holding back students is an admission of failure on behalf of both the child and the parents.
And we ALL know the dems don’t take blame for ANYTHING.
Change schools?
She’ll be smarter for it.
Hillsdale College should offer her a scholarship.
In a better world, it would be the school administrators and teacher who would be using their “sick leave” after the first time they suspended a child for that bogus reason, courtesy of the child’s “kith and kin.”
I reckon Governor DeSantis will have something to say about this particular incident.