Let me make this as simple as possible...WHY THE HELL DOES THE DEPT. OF ED...have an Office for Civil Rights???!!! They have no business in this! They should simply be doing 3 things...suggesting a national curriculum, suggesting national testing and graduation requirements and assisting the states on any other issues a state requests help or guidance on. Otherwise...SHUT THE DEPT OF ED DOWN! It's a waste of taxpayer funds any way!!!!!!! Now my grandson started school a week and 1/2 ago here in Dayton. They have a stupid mask mandate. He went 3 days and then was out a full week ill. I think it's due to the mask. He has not been a sickly child but breathing in the mask I believe made him so!!!! GET OUT OF OUR CHILDRENS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations in five states regarding the prohibitions of universal indoor masking.
Chief state school officers in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah received letters today from the OCR questioning the states’ decisions to not mandate masks in schools. The Education Department maintains that mask-mandate bans discriminate against students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 by preventing them from safely accessing in-person education.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says that not mandating masks may put students with underlying medical conditions and disabilities at particular risk."

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