Virginia mother blasts sons' suspensions for not wearing masks: 'Punished for political reasons'
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A mother in Fairfax, Virginia, sounds off on her sons' suspension for not wearing face masks to school during COVID-19.
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"The masks had given them headaches," Lundquist-Arora told Fox News Digital. "They didn’t like wearing them. So they found them problematic."
Her two younger boys were suspended for 15 days from Hunt Valley Elementary School, but she said she has "not heard back yet" from the principal about her appeal requests. She appealed her older son's suspension in an email to Irving Middle School Principal Cynthia Conley, arguing it was inaccurate, misleading, and flew in the face of rights of privacy and political freedom. She was adamant that the school's action was also in violation of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's, R., Executive Order 2, which requires Virginia schools to allow parents to opt their children out of the mask mandates still in place in some Virginia schools.
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