Boston Parents Protest Mask Mandate in Massachusetts Schools

Several hundred people rallied for medical freedom in Boston on Wednesday as the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) authorized a mask mandate in public schools through October 1. Protesters demonstrated near the Park Street subway station, and then marched to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health while shouting slogans like “my child, my choice” and “we will not comply.” They said it should be parents but not the government to decide whether their children need to wear masks. “We have a lot of families that want masks, and a lot of families that don’t. And the most equitable thing would be to just let parents choose for themselves and their own families, and what’s best for their children,” the event organizer Samantha Muise said. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education board voted 9–1 Tuesday to give Commissioner Jeffrey Riley the power to issue a mask mandate …
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