🧵How Pennsylvania Democrats illegally masked students in the fall of 2021 and threatened school board members who didn’t comply.
Seems like a good time to share since mandatory masking is making a comeback in Pennsylvania schools.
1. In May 2021, PA voters passed a referendum, limiting the governors emergency powers. This meant the @GovernorTomWolf administration could not LEGALLY issue a mask mandate without the support of the state legislature, as Alison Beam alluded to at a senate hearing on 8/6/21.
2. Masking was a contentious topic nationwide. The Wolf administration wanted a state mandate and pressured local school districts to force masking. But when only 59 of 474 school districts implemented a local mandate, on 8/31/21 they issued an illegal statewide mandate.
3. Public records emails confirm this decision was made due to, “The apparent unwillingness of the vast majority if school districts to institute mask policies in the absence of a state requirement.”
4. Some school boards refused to comply and the administration was not happy when school board “disobeyed.”
In this email, then Sec of Ed, Noe Ortega, said, “If some ‘members’ would just stop enabling defiant behavior, we can start focusing on the learning and development.”
5. When the Tamaqua Area School District chose not to enforce @GovernorTomWolf illegal mask mandate, the administration sent a threatening letter, telling school board members they could face personal liability and lawsuits if they failed to comply with the illegal mask mandate.
6. Acting Secretary of Health, Alison Beam, echoed these sentiments saying, “School officials who fail to adhere to the order could lose the protection of sovereign immunity and may personally face lawsuits.”
7. Non-compliant school boards were under attack. Current PA Secretary of Ed, @erichagarty helped created a secret tipline where School Superintendents could report there school board members who dared to “disobey the order” and potentially have “whistleblower” protection.
8. Central Bucks mom (and my friend), @jcwcbsd, took Wolf to court over the mandate, arguing that Wolf had created a regulation without going through the legal regulatory process (an alarming precedent). On 12/10/21 the PA Supreme Court agreed, ending the illegal mandate.
9. Throughout Covid, Democrat politicians proved over and over that they see themselves as above the law.
And they are only stopped when normal people like, @jcwcbsd, have the courage to stop them.
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