Arguing that the “science is clear and unambiguous,” the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Education Project has responded to new recommendations today from the Whitmer administration regarding kids and face masks in the upcoming school year, saying she is flat wrong.
Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) Executive Director Beth DeShone offered the following response today to new recommendations that elementary school students be forced to wear masks next school year, despite plummeting COVID numbers, rising vaccinations, and the incredibly low risk the virus poses to young students:
“Gretchen Whitmer is recommending districts force kindergartners and elementary school students to wear masks at school next year, but she’s wrong. The science is clear and it’s unambiguous. Vaccination rates are rising, and young children are at by far the lowest risk of contracting, experiencing serious symptoms from, or transmitting COVID-19.
“Whitmer spent the last year telling our kids what they can do, when they can do it, and what they have to wear – without any scientific evidence to back her up. Now she wants to control kids into 2022. Parents have had enough.”
The Great Lakes Education Project is a bi-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization supporting quality choices in public education for all Michigan students. The organization strongly supports efforts to improve academic achievement, increase accountability and empower parental choice in Michigan schools.
