Search for Safe Schooling
NY Times: “Ms. Morrison said she and her husband do not wear masks either. ‘I feel like before we’re even born, God has a plan for when he’s going to take us to heaven,’ she said. ‘There’s nothing we can do to stop it.‘ “
Freedom of religion is protected by the written US Constitution and parents have long enjoyed and usually fulfilled the unwritten responsibility for their children's health, safety, welfare, thoughts and emotions.
By law and collective wisdom responsibility is handed to school systems for the children's care away from home and parental supervision. Home schooling is an established alternative, and remote learning has been introduced as a hybrid.
Yet to be formulated is how to protect children when they are forced to attend a dangerous environment on the trust of prayer and political persuasion.
But even this is not unprecedented in societies where danger is commonplace from jobs, commerce, travel, recreation, sports, rallies, parties, and yes, especially education where exposure to ideas can shatter comforting faith and undermine strict obedience.
Though tragedy of Covid and related hasty reopening is rife with extremist responses, this should not mean the children are to be weaponized in a political and social war.
Those who place the kids at risk, whether parents or politicians, should get off their high horses and think first about school health and safety, suspend forced attendance, join in the search for ways to school with least risk to the innocent.