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In Sweden, there are no mask mandates or vaccine mandates or business shutdowns or school closures. The result? As of August 9, 2021, the 7 day average virus death rate in Sweden was ZERO – the lowest rate in the world!
Everything recommended by the CDC is contrary to all the rules of science and instead is driven solely to increase drug company profits. All respiratory viruses, including the corona virus, are spread by aresol particles which are small enough to go through every common mask. There are dozens of studies going back more than 20 years that confirm this. The claim of mask proponents is that it might reduce the rate of transmission. There is no study showing that mask wearing actually reduces the rate of transmission. In fact, wearing masks increases the risk of disease as masks are perfect breeding grounds for both viruses and bacteria - while at the same time harming the human brain by reducing the flow of oxygen. Mask wearing is particularly harmful to children as it harms their cognitive, emotional, social and physical development. This making wearing and requiring masks one of the most ridiculous, irrational and unscientic things humans have every done.
The irrationality of mask wearing is exceeded only by the insanity of expecting GMO shots to eradicate the corona virus. GMO shots do not reduce the transmission of any virus or the severity of symptoms should one contract the corona virus. We know this because the vast majority of all new cases are now among those who have been given the GMO shots. This is because the shots actually harm the human immune system – which is the only proven cure for the virus. Instead, because virus mutate at a rate of about once a week, GMO shots simply lead to strains of viruses that are immune to the shots.
The justification for both masks and shots has been that the corona virus has killed more than 600,000 people in the US in the past year. In fact, there has been no increase in the death rate in the US in the past year. Several studies have shown that huge numbers of people claimed to be victims of the corona virus actually died from some other cause. The inflated virus death numbers were driven by a PCR test that produces false positive results more than 97 percent of the time. To determine the real number of virus fatalities, you need to divide the claimed number by 30. This makes the corona virus much LESS lethal than the Seasonal Flu. Scientific studies proved this more than a year ago.
These are the scientifically proven facts. But drug companies have made more than 100 billion dollars in profits pushing their GMO shots. So the American people and their children continue to be subjected to mask wearing, GMO shots, social isolation, closed businesses and lost jobs.
Currently, billions of dollars are being spent by corrupt politicians and their accomplices in the drug-addicted main stream media to control the American people through lies, fear, blackmail and intimidation. But the truth will eventually come out. When it does, expect the American people to go after the Drug Cartel Criminals with pitch forks. You can help get the truth out by sharing this article and our website with your family, friends and neighbors.
As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Spring for schools at gmail dot com
On July 29, 2021, the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction issued a draconian order that all students in Washington State must wear masks for the coming school year.
This article summarizes the scientific research on why forcing children to wear masks is child abuse.
The Never Ending Emergency is Based on a Flawed PCR Test
Reykdal claims he has no choice but to enforce mandatory mask wearing because Governor Inslee issued yet another emergency order requiring mask wearing in schools. Reykdal claims he is merely “following orders.” In fact, Reykdal’s real duty as Superintendent is not to rubber stamp whatever the Governor orders. Rather his paramount duty should have been to honor his oath to uphold the Washington State Constitution and protect the rights of parents and students.
I pointed out more than a year ago that the PCR tests used to drive the Corona Histeria were using a Cycle Threshold of greater than 35 and therefore led to “false positives” more than 97% of the time.
Put in plain English, for every 100 people who tested positive for the corona virus, less than 3 people actually had the corona virus. The unreliability of PCR Tests has been well documented in scientific research journals for over 20 years.
More than 100 of these studies were summarized in a report on November 27, 2020. Here is a link to this report: https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/
Here is a quote from this report: “If someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used, the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%.”
We, the unsuspecting and naive public, were lead to believe that a positive PCR test meant that the person who got the test must be infected with the corona virus and must be capable of transmitting this deadly virus to others. But the truth is that the CDC has known all along that the PCR Test is not accurate. This means that the CDC also knew that the Corona case numbers were false and that the Corona fatality numbers were not only false but wildly inflated. Any scientist who dared to tell the truth about the lack of reliability of the PCR Test (including myself) was immediately blacklisted.
The PCR Test Credibility problem is an issue that should trouble anyone who cares about the truth. If one really wanted to be accurate, one should not include any Cycle Threshold Count greater than 25. Yet in January 2020, the CDC approved PCR tests with a cycle threshold count of 35 to 45.
Here is an article on the problems of PCR testing from 2000: Calogero et al, 2000 Limitations of the nested reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction British Journal of Cancer 83 184-187 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363472/pdf/83-6691282a.pdf
The study used a Cycle Threshold of 30 cycles. Here was the conclusion of the study: “In conclusion, the nested RT-PCR on tyrosinase to detect the presence of malignant melanoma micrometastases in lymph nodes has limited diagnostic value, due to the high percentage of false-positive results in lymph nodes of non-melanoma patients.”
Put in plain English, even a cycle threshold as low as 30 has too many false positives to be of any use.
Here is a link to a 2004 PCR False Positives study: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/33/20/e179/1082564
Here is a link to a 2008 PCR False Positives study: https://www.nature.com/articles/nprot.2008.73
Research of the false positives of corona virus PCR tests was first published on May 22, 2020. In an article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases on May 22, 2020, Bullard reported that patients could not be contagious with Ct greater than 25 as the virus is not detected in culture above this value.
Bullard J, Dust K, Funk D, et al. Predicting infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from diagnostic samples. Here is the link to this study:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa638/5842165
Since May 2020, there have been more than 100 studies published on this topic. Here is a link to a study published on September 1, 2020 that found the same result:
Here is one from September 28, 2020: Jafaar et al., Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Isolates. Here is the link to this study: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1491/5912603
“At Ct = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR, less than 3% of cultures are positive.”
In other words, several studies concluded that “less than 3%” of positive samples had any corona viruses at a Cycle Count of 35 or greater. However, even then, only non-infectious (dead) viruses are detected with Ct values of 35 or greater.
So if it was well known that a Cycle threshold of over 25 is not reliable, why did the CDC use a Cycle threshold of 35 to 40???
There can only be one answer to this question. The CDC wanted to drive up the number of false positives. Put in plain English, the CDC from the very start has been and continues to be lying to the American people. In short, we know that the CDC (and their accomplices at the Washington State Department of Health) have been deliberately lying to us about corona virus cases and fatalities the entire time.
How Many People Actually Died from the Corona Virus?
For every 100 people that corrupt politicians claimed to have died from the corona virus, less than 3 actually died from the corona virus. In short, politicians and your local news have been lying to you on a daily basis from the very beginning of the Pandemic. To convert claimed fatalities to real fatalities, we need to divide by 33.
Here is a graph of the Washington State weekly claimed corona fatalities according to the Washington State Department of Health from April 2020 to July 2021:
The total claimed fatalities is just over 6000. However, this number is based on the deeply flawed PCR Test. To calculate the real number of people who really had the corona virus when they died, we need to divide 6000 by 33 which equals 181. Most of these elderly people who actually died from other pre-existing conditions. So the number of people who actually died FROM the corona virus in Washington state is under 100. This makes the corona virus much less risky than the seasonal flu. In fact, many of the claimed corona deaths this past winter were actually seasonal flu deaths – which happen every winter.
Here is the age distribution of these 100 fatalities:
There has not been a single fatality in Washington state of anyone under the age of twenty. More than one million children in Washington state have been deprived of an education for more than a year despite the fact that there has not been a single reported fatality of anyone under the age of 20 and almost no one under the age of 50.
81 percent of the 100 or so actual fatalities were in people over the age of 65 with other pre-existing conditions. This is in a year and half of the so-called Inslee Emergency. Compare this to the average daily death total in Washington State of 160 deaths per day. Most of these people died from heart disease, cancer or obesity. More people die from car accidents, suicide and drug overdoses than die from the corona virus.
If Inslee or Reykdal really cared about the health of children and teachers in Washington state, they would encourage them to get some exercise every day instead of forcing families to hide in their homes.
Children and their teachers are more likely to die from being hit by lightning while on the school playground than they are to be killed by the corona virus.
Before moving to the next shocking truth, please take a moment to consider how much we have been lied to by the CDC and by our elected officials. There was never any real health emergency. Then consider how much harm these criminals have inflicted on our children during the past year and a half by shutting down our public schools. We can not and must not ignore this evil. But the corona death rate is not the only area where we have been lied to.
Our hospitals were never overwhelmed
During the height of the hysteria in April 2020, Inslee ordered an emergency hospital built in Seattle at a cost of more than one million dollars. As the picture below confirms, this emergency hospital never served a single patient:
Children are not a risk to the health and safety of other children or a risk to their teachers
More than 100 additional studies from around the world have confirmed that children are not at risk from the corona virus and that children rarely if ever transmit the corona virus to adults. For a summary of these 100 studies, see the following three articles:
https://commonsensebook.org/latest-news/10-reasons-it-is-safe-to-reopen-public-schools
https://commonsensebook.org/latest-news/more-evidence-opening-schools-is-not-a-risk-to-teachers-or-students
https://commonsensebook.org/latest-news/more-evidence-children-do-not-transmit-the-corona-virus
Here is just one example from these articles: While government officials shut down all schools in Washington state for the final three months of the school year in the Spring of 2020, the nation of Sweden, which is slightly larger than Washington State understood from previous scientific research that leaving schools and businesses open would not increase the risk from the corona virus – because the human immune system is what really protects us from all viruses. Sweden therefore left their schools open. Here is a picture of kids playing on a playground in Sweden in May 2020. Note that no one is wearing masks and no one is being forced to stay six feet apart.
This result from this huge experiment involving tens of thousands of teachers and hundreds of thousands of students in Sweden was published on July 7, 2020. Here is a link to this study: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/c1b78bffbfde4a7899eb0d8ffdb57b09/covid-19-school-aged-children.pdf
The study compared the outcome in Sweden, where schools remained open, to its neighbor Finland, where schools were closed. Here are quotes from the study: “There was no difference in the overall incidence of the laboratory confirmed covid-19 cases in the age group 1-19 years in the two countries. No deaths were reported in this age group in either Sweden or Finland. Outbreak investigations in Finland have not shown children to be contributing much in terms of transmission and in Sweden a report comparing risk of covid-19 in different professions, showed no increased risk for teachers.
On June 23, 2020, a French study was published analyzing whether students spread the corona virus to others. Here are some quotes:
“Of the 1,340 people included in the study, 139 had been infected by the virus, representing 10.4% of the population under study. 510 students from six primary schools were included in the study. There were three probable cases of corona virus infection in three different schools before the schools closed for the lockdown. These cases did not give rise to secondary cases among other school students or teaching staff. Children did not spread the infection to other students or to teachers or other staff at the schools.”
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area/press-documents/covid-19-primary-schools-no-significant-transmission-among-children-students-teachers
These were only two of more than 100 studies that concluded that students do not spread the corona virus to other students or to teachers or parents. The reason students do not spread the corona virus is because children under the age of 18 have fewer ACE2 receptors that the corona virus attacks. Children also have more T cells to stop the attack. It is therefore insane to require students to wear masks in schools or anywhere else. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajplung.00183.2020
Masks do not stop viruses
More than 100 additional studies have proven that masks do not stop the corona virus because the virus is much smaller than the pore size of cotton masks. Instead, mask mandates are severely harmful to your health, increase your risk of disease and are particularly harmful to the development of young children. For a summary of these studies, see the following article:
https://commonsensebook.org/latest-news/why-cotton-masks-do-not-stop-the-corona-virus
Here are a few of the studies I cited in this article:
First is a study which found that both surgical and cotton masks were ineffective in blocking the corona virus. Here is the quote: “Both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.” Here is the link: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
Here is a link to a study that compared cloth masks to both no masks and surgical masks. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
The cloth mask group had a higher rate of infection than the no mask group and a much higher rate of infection than the surgical mask group. The penetration of viruses was 97% in the cloth mask group versus 44% in the surgical mask group. Here is a quote: “The results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection... cloth masks should not be recommended ... particularly in high-risk situations.”
Here is a link to a 2012 review of the highest quality studies on this subject: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801/
There were 17 eligible studies. Six of eight randomized controlled trials found no significant differences between control groups (people not wearing masks) and intervention groups (N95 masks). None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between N95 mask use and protection against influenza infection.
Here is what the CDC used to say about the general public wearing masks: “The following interim CDC guidance was developed in response to questions about the role of masks for controlling seasonal influenza virus transmission. Masks are not usually recommended in non-healthcare settings.” https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/infectioncontrol/maskguidance.htm
Here is what the Johan Carlson from the Swedish Public Health Agency said on May 13, 2020, in response to a question on why wearing masks is not recommended in Sweden: "Face masks in public spaces do not provide any greater protection to the population."
A leading German virologist, Dr. Hendrik Streeck stated that masks are a “wonderful breeding ground for bacteria and fungi”.
Serious Health Drawbacks of Wearing Masks
It might be acceptable to have everyone wear masks if it made them feel more comfortable about going out in public – and if there were no serious health drawbacks of wearing masks. But in fact, masks do not make everyone feel more comfortable. Instead, they simply instill more fear in people and make them even more afraid to go out in public. As for the health drawbacks, there are several. Dr. Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, has warned that it was not a good idea for the public to wear face masks as the virus can get trapped in the material and causes infection when the wearer breathes in. Masks are also a breeding ground for bacteria. "For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea," Dr. Harries said.
Here is another study that concluded N95 masks could be harmful: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00173017
Here is the quote: “Wearing N95 masks results in hypoxygenemia and hypercapnia which reduce working efficiency.”
Here is another study where pregnant women wearing N95 masks were studied: https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-015-0086-z
Here is a quote: “Breathing through N95 masks have been shown to impede gaseous exchange and impose an additional workload on the metabolic system of pregnant healthcare workers, and this needs to be taken into consideration in guidelines for respirator use. The benefits of using N95 mask to prevent serious emerging infectious diseases should be weighed against potential respiratory consequences associated with extended N95 respirator usage.”
The main problem is that - even when you are not sick - when you breath inside of a well fitted mask, you exhale air with a high concentration of carbon dioxide and a relatively low concentration of oxygen. You then inhale this same “bad” air back in again. You then repeat this process over and over again – with the air quality getting progressively worse each time you breath. It will soon become obvious to you that you are feeling ill and feeling like you are about to pass out. This is because your brain needs a lot of oxygen and is trying to warn you to stop wearing the mask.
Reduced oxygen supply is also why people who are forced to wear masks at work all day often develop severe headaches. Researchers found that about a third of the workers developed headaches with use of masks and 60% required pain medications for relief. Another study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask. The N95 surgical mask, if worn for hours, can also reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%, which can lead to a loss of consciousness.
The biggest problem is that a drop in oxygen levels is certain to harm your immune system – which is the only thing that actually is protecting you from the corona virus.
Several studies have shown that hypoxia can reduce the immune cells that fight viral infections (CD4+ T-lymphocyte).
Here are a couple of links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359232/
http://europepmc.org/article/PMC/4679538
The reduction in T cell metabolism and function occurs because hypoxia (low oxygen) increases the level of a compound called HIF, which reduces T-lymphocytes. This reduction in T cells increases the chances of you contracting any infection, including the corona virus - and makes the consequences of that infection much graver. In short, wearing a mask may actually increase your risk of infections.
People with cancer should certainly not wear masks since many cancers grow best in a low oxygen environment. Low oxygen levels may also play a part in increasing heart attacks and strokes – which along with cancer are the three leading causes of death.
Some doctors have claimed there are even more serious problems with having sick people wearing masks. Here is a quote: “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.” — Russell Blaylock, MD
Requiring adults to wear masks is emotionally harmful to children as adults wearing masks causes children to react with fear
On April 17, 2020, Dr. Kathleen Pike from Columbia University posted an article, Psychological Harms of Face Masks. Here is a link to this article: https://www.cugmhp.org/five-on-friday/why-a-mask-is-not-just-a-mask/
Here is a quote from this article: "Many young children burst into tears or recoil when someone wearing a mask approaches. It’s so common that some elementary schools prohibit masks at the school Halloween parade. One reason for this is that the development of facial recognition is relatively weak in young children. According to University of Toronto psychologist, Dr. Kang Lee, it is not until kids are about 14 years old that they reach adult skill levels in recognizing faces. Before then, kids tend to see individual facial features, rather than recognizing the person as a whole. By putting on masks, we take away information that makes it especially difficult for children to recognize others and read emotional signals, which is unsettling and disconcerting. These issues may be especially true for children with autism spectrum disorder, including Asperger’s syndrome, who tend to have particular difficulties reading non-verbal cues. We depend on non-verbal behavior, and particularly facial expression, to express ourselves and communicate to others. With our faces half-covered, we lose key non-verbal information.”
An October 2020 study of students in Germany found that over two thirds of all students suffered adverse health effects from wearing masks at school. “20,353 parents submitted reports on almost 26,000 children, Impairments caused by students wearing masks were reported by 68% of the parents. These included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school (44%), malaise (42%) impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%).” Here is the link to this study: https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-124394/v4_stamped.pdf?c=1619620485
Forcing students to wear masks at school is Brain Washing
Schools hold a special place in child development. Children assume that their teachers are like Gods. Children assume that their teachers are telling them the truth. Children will therefore blindly follow their teachers and be impacted by their teachers for the rest of their lives. Instead of teaching children to think independently, mask wearing brain washes them into blindly following authority figures.
In short, requiring young children to wear masks and be in schools where teachers are required to wear masks is child abuse.
Yet despite these hundreds of scientific studies on the harm from wearing masks, on July 29, 2021, Washington State Superintendent of Instruction, Chris Reykdal, issued an order requiring all students in all schools in Washington state to wear masks for the coming school year. Reykdal boasted that his school requirements were the “strictest in the nation.”
Only 10 States Require Wearing Masks in School
Washington is one of only ten states to require mask wearing in all schools. The other draconian states are California, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Virgina, Hawaii and North Carolina. At the same time, at least eight states have banned mask mandates in schools. These states include Vermont, South Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Utah. The remaining 32 states allow local school districts to make the decision on mask wearing based on the facts in their local communities.
The drafters of the Washington State Constitution did not want schools controlled by a possibly corrupt Governor. They therefore created an independently elected, non-partisan state office for Superintendent with the power to manage schools. For over 100 years, Washington was a “local control state” where schools were managed by local school boards. However, Reykdal has rubber stamped every Inslee policy regardless of the harm it has inflicted on students here in Washington state.
What is the purpose of having an independently elected State Superintendent who refuses to honor his oath of office to uphold the Washington state constitution?
Equally important, what is the real reason politicians like Inslee and Reykdal are requiring all students in Washington state to wear masks given that masks do not stop any virus and children are not a risk to themselves or a risk to their teachers?
The Real Reason Children are Required to Wear Masks…
Follow the Money… Billions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks!
The answer is that the CDC is completely owned by drug companies that make billions of dollars by scaring people to death. Corrupt politiicans are completely owned by drug companies that are making billions of dollars pushing experimental GMO shots onto people. The Mass Media is also completely owned by drug companies making billions of dollars from their GMO shots.
Here is a table from a March 1, 2021 Table from the US Congressional Research Service:
|
Drug Company |
GMO Shot Contract |
|
Pfizer |
6 |
|
Moderna |
5 |
|
Astra Zeneca |
1.3 |
|
Johnson and Johnson |
1.1 |
|
Novavax |
2.1 |
|
Sanofi |
2 |
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11560
The total so far has been about $17.5 billion dollars just for the first wave of government contracts. This does not count the additional billions that will come from twice a year booster shots. In July, 2021, Pfizer announced that it made $11 billion from its GMO shots in the first quarter of 2021 and it estimated that it will make $33 billion during the rest of 2021.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-33-billion-covid-vaccine-revenues-boosters-kids/
There is no a public health crisis. There is a public corruption crisis. Drug companies are the biggest donors to re-election campaigns for corrupt politicians. Drug companies are the biggest advertising customers for TV stations, radio stations and newspapers.
A Epidemic of Greed, Fear and Corruption
Here is how the process works:
Step 1: Corrupt CDC uses fake PCR tests to claim that huge numbers of people are getting and dying from the corona virus.
Step 2: Corrupt politicians require kids and adults to wear masks – scaring everyone to death.
Step 3: Corrupt Media spreads lies and censors the truth – keeping voters and parents in the dark about what is really happening.
Step 4: Drug companies get billions of dollars in kick backs which are spread around to the corrupt bribes to the CDC, corrupt politicians and the corrupt media.
Step 5: Students are required to wear masks to maintain the illusion of a public health emergency – making even more money for the corrupt drug companies and their accomplices.
The real law is the Washington State Constitution
Because there is no evidence of any health emergency, the Governor’s never-ending emergency orders have no force of law. But even if there was an emergency, the United State and Washington State Constitutions are not suspended during any emergency. All Americans have a God given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have a right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Assembly. All of these rights have been trampled on by corrupt politicians and their accomplices in the media.
Here is Article 1, Section 1 and Section 16 Washington State Constitution: “Governments are established to protect and maintain the individual rights of the people… No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law... No private property shall be taken or damaged without just compensation.”
Note that private property is any property that is not public property.
Here is Article 3, Section 22 of the Washington State Constitution:
The Superindent of PUBLIC instruction shall have supervision over all matters pertaining to PUBLIC schools.
Note that the Superintendent of PUBLIC Instruction only has supervision over PUBLIC schools. Private schools, and especially private religious schools, are exempt from the whims of our corrupt Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Given the lack of an emergency, the lack of benefit of mask wearing and the severe harm to children of wearing masks, it is my hope that private schools in Washington state will stand up to the draconian order of Chris Reykdal and protect the right of their students to a real education free of the tryanny of corrupt government officials.
There is no emergency and never had been. There was no reason to shut down the public schools. There is no reason for masks. The only remaining question is when will parents finally stand up and demand and end to this terrible form of child abuse?
What can parents do if they do not want to subject their children to the draconian mask mandate?
There is currently no hope for public schools as Reykdal has made it clear he will withhold funding for any public school that does not comply with the mask mandate. Therefore, the only hope for parents and students is either home schooling or private schools.
The Private School Option
There is a question as to whether private schools can legally be forced to comply with Reykdal’s mask mandate. While Private schools might be regulated by the State Board of Education, Washington State law clearly places policy decisions in the hands of private school administrators. Here is Washington state law regarding private schools as amended by the legislature in March 2021:
The legislature hereby recognizes that private schools should be subject only to those minimum state controls necessary to insure the health and safety of all the students in the state and to insure a sufficient basic education to meet usual graduation requirements. The state, any agency or official thereof, shall not restrict or dictate any specific educational or other programs for private schools except as hereinafter in this section provided...
All decisions of policy, philosophy, selection of books, teaching material, curriculum, except as in subsection (7) of this section provided, school rules and administration, or other matters not specifically referred to in this section, shall be the responsibility of the administration and administrators of the particular private school involved.
http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1131.SL.pdf
If a parent wants to protect their student from the harm of wearing a mask for the 2021-2022 school year, and is not willing or able to home school their student, here is a link to a list of all private schools in Washington state:
https://sbe.wa.gov/our-work/private-schools#List%20of%20Approved%20PS
Ask the private school administrator if they will require students to wear masks for the 2021-2022 school year. Sadly, most private schools are not willing to oppose the mask mandate. Therefore, your only real option might be to join with other local parents in your community and set up a home school cooperative.
The Home School Option
If your student is over the age of 8, you will need to apply with your local school district and fill out a form to home school your student. There are several websites that can help you with this process. Here is a link to the Washington Homeschool Organization
As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Spring for schools at gmail dot com