illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov – RSMo § 610 – Missouri Sunshine Law – email submissions – Generations

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“…Inviting stressed parents to tattle to the AG’s office is not the way to go…”

Last week we received a response from the office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r) complying with our December 9th RSMo § 610 “Missouri Sunshine Law” request for the contents of the illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov email address set up by the Attorney General to solicit complaints about mask wearing in Missouri public schools.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s (r) anti-mask public school complaint email address: illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov

One voice, of a generation:

[….]
Subject: your efforts re: COVID-19

Dear AG Schmitt,

I am the great-grandmother of five children currently attending Missouri schools. Thet are doing OK, so far, but your attempts to make mask-wearing optional in our schools worry me. Two of them have been diagnosed with asthma, which according to reliable sources makes them more susceptible to the Covid virus. One of them lives with a parent who has sever asthma. All of these children could contract the virus from other, unmasked children in their schools. Our public schools are tasked with providing a safe environment for education. If this cannot be done in the school buildings, they will have to go back to online distance learning, and we are already seeing signs that many, if not most, children lost ground last year, in spite of the valiant attempts of teachers to revise and manage this new learning medium. A safe, in-school environment is the necessary basis for children to learn well.

Last week we learned that state-rquested review of the data showed that mask mandates do indeed reduce incidence of infection and hospitalization. The Governor may choose to ignore this study, but you, in your position of responsibility, may not ethically do so.

As infection and hospitalization rates are rising with the onset of winter and the growing prevalence of the delta variant and potentially also the omicron variant, it is obvious that the cause of public health requires strong measures to protect the well-being of the whole population. We know from history that such strong measures (as in the 1919 influenza, the 1950’s poliomyelitis, etc.) can bring a pandemic to an earlier end. While many people may be inconvenienced and discommoded by such measures, when the pandemic is ended the people are grateful.

We have had too many deaths, and too many people disabled by ‘long Covid.’ We have had too many children lose ground in their education by the disruptions already resorted to. It is time to move on to a more practical and ethical approach. Inviting stressed parents to tattle to the AG’s office is not the way to go.

Sincerely,
[….]

And another:

[….]
Subject: tired of mask mandates

My name is [….] I live in [….] I am sending this email because these schools think they know more than I do about my children, well my great grand children.
I have had these children most of their life..one evr since birth. My complaint is involving the Washington School which is District 200 and the other one is with the Heasstart school through Missouri Valley community Action Agency. of Sedalia. they just started a mask mandate on Dec. 6th 2021. Enough is enough the headstart are putting the mask on as young as 2 years old…no these kids dont need this they go through enough just getting prepared for the classes.
Please help get these muzzles off our kids.

Oh yes just so you know the kids are being suspended and or sent home for standing up and showing the schools a copy of your letter…[….]stated you are not his boss and you will not tell him how to run his schools.
thank you for hearing me out…I just pray you will help these kids…
God Bless and thank you
[….]

The contrast is jarring.

“…Inviting stressed parents to tattle to the AG’s office is not the way to go…”

That’s on you, Eric Schmitt (r).