South Central Reporter

State Rep. Blaine Wilhour (R-Beecher City) is slamming schools that would continue to force make children. 

“There is no logic to the continued masking of kids. Seniors are the most vulnerable population when it comes to COVID-19 and wherever they go – no one is required to wear a mask but kids who are at the least risk still have to wear masks? It is absurd,” Wilhour told South Central Reporter. 

“They certainly are not following the science. They do not want to confront the truth about their terrible policies. If these school districts really cared about kids, they would do what the vast majority of schools have already done and ditch the mask mandates.” 

“I would like to see parents continue to get involved in school board elections and vote the architects of these terrible policies out of office. We need advocates for parental rights serving on school boards. It is my hope parents will see what is going on and step up and run for the school and make sure the people behind the mask mandates can’t do any more harm to our kids ever again.” 

Wilhour's remarks come just after Oak Park 97, the last public school district in the state to require masks, switched their policy to "mask recommended" on March 17, West Cook News reported.

Following a series of court judgments that noted the unconstitutionality of the state mandate, it was the last school district in the state to enforce masks. 

While masking is no longer allowed in public schools The School for Little Children, an Evanston pre-school, noted it was continuing the mask mandate through the remainder of the school year, despite infections in children not posing a significant Covid threat, North Cook News reported.

In a Feb. 9 press conference, Wilhour said the science as in and make do not work. 

“For the last year at least, I contend two years, the observed science, scores of studies, real-world observations have told us there is absolutely no observed or clinical data that indicates any benefit whatsoever to masking K-12 students in schools,” Wilhour said at the time in a release on bettergov.org.