BARTLETT — Tempers flared last Friday at the Bartlett School Board meeting at the Josiah Bartlett Elementary School as a group of people, many of whom don’t live in Bartlett, assailed members and interrupted the meeting.
After the board voted 3-2 to approve the SAU 9 Re-Entry plan, people in the audience berated board members who did not vote to make masks optional on the first day of school.
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These anti-masking parents think the world revolves around them. They’re forcing their ignorant politics on their children, who have zero problem wearing masks all day, and they’re going to get someone’s child killed. We’re trying to live in a society here - and sometimes in a society doing what’s best for everyone means not getting your own way. Anti-maskers need to grow up.
Lol, that picture is embarrassing. It's bad enough when parents use their children to spout political nonsense. But then these geniuses apparently don't even understand English grammar. "Helen, must go!" Hope that poor kid pays attention in school because she won't learn anything from her parents.
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