A teacher forwarded this letter he wrote after he read about the decision to make masks compulsory in lessons for all children in English secondary schools. He sent it to the Chairman of his local Conservative Party Association. I’m sure he speaks for many Conservative members this morning.
Dear XXXXX,
If you could forward this to the relevant person, I would be very grateful.
I have always voted Conservative and I have also previously donated but I will never do either again.
This reintroduction of masks in classrooms is the last straw. I simply can’t see any future in which this doesn’t become an annual event, if you believe current conditions require it. As a teacher, I find this intolerable. Our pupils often leave home a little after 7 in the morning to travel by bus and return after 5pm. The winter weather does not often make it desirable to go outside. They will therefore have to wear these things for ten hours at a time, almost continuously. Three of the pupils I teach are partially deaf and they lip read. Their experience for the next few weeks will be awful, as they are denied normal interactions with their friends. More Generally, the effect on morale is draining. We are preparing them for their third winter in what seems deliberately orchestrated to feel like a state of emergency. Pupils who had barely left primary school when all this began are now preparing for GCSEs and this has been their experience for a large proportion of their lives. How are we supposed to motivate them to prepare for exams that they know may not happen? How can we ask them to look forward to a university experience that will most likely turn into a dull and expensive series of online videos? What sort of career can they look forward to if their qualifications may be assigned on the whim of their teachers and lack any credibility? Even the small pleasures and the things that make schools feel like communities are being taken away: discos, film nights, assemblies, carol concerts, expeditions. You won’t even let them see one another smiling. You have turned schools into hygienic factories and prolonged the emergency measures to a point where this feels permanent.
At what point do we accept that this is an endemic disease and that we need to move on from bizarre, largely symbolic, practices that seem disproportionately targeted at those in least danger? When do we acknowledge that we are as safe from this as we can ever be and it is not reasonable to ask people to exist like this?
At no point in my life have the actions of a government so directly affected my life, and in such a negative way. I would never have believed it would be a Conservative Government.
I will not be enforcing any of this in my lessons. Nor can I ever again justify supporting or voting for a candidate representing a party that would allow this to happen. I would appreciate it if you would remove me from your mailing list.
Many thanks,
XXXXXXX
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How refreshing to come across a teacher with the best interests of their pupils at heart and with more common sense than the majority of their left-wing woke peers.
I have been a lifelong C supporter for most of my 75 years and cancelled my membership 2 years ago. Ever since I have regularly written to my MP, Mel Stride, receiving the same authoritarian clap trap in reply every time. He never responds to my points. I have sent a copy of this teacher’s letter to him and suggest all readers do the same, to their MPs.
Well said Sir. I would love to send the letter to my MP. Unfortunately he’s a rabid Labour puppet, so like you when I write to him about anything from the appalling Police and Crimes Bill to The disgusting policy of vaccinating children and the Nazi style vaccine passports(all of which he has voted in favour) I receive nothing but pre-prepared patronising platitudes. Heads and brick walls spring to mind.
Tip top tip top man. I resigned from my local Conservative Party shortly after Johnson’s 180 in March 2020. They and their anti conservative policies have been disgusting me sever since.
Peaceful non compliance will win this war with the enemy within.
Which is why removing children from schools en masse is so important.
Brilliantly put. But it needs hundreds of thousands of teachers to do the same. It’s not going to happen.
Abuse our kids at your peril Boris.
False education has never been a good plan. Especially not for this subject. It looks like a deliberate attempt to pretend that “something is being done” – even though its a crap idea.
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et. al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
clearly set out in Kennedy’s book
https://ebooksoff.xyz/ebooks/The-Real-Anthony-Fauci.pdf
Hear hear….anyone with half an once if sense would agree wholeheartedly with this teacher.
What on earth are the Conservative Party / Govt playing at continuing with this appalling response to covid. Folly!!!!!
“And don’t let the door hit you on your way out” will be the only response from the responsible responders.
Another classic found on Twitter about something that Doris previously said.
https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1477428653327798277
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Taking children out of schools is the way to go. You dont get a second chance with this stuff. The schools are abusing the children, plain and simple. Imagine someone trying to suffocate your kid all day long and you being OK with that and still sending them to the place where they do it. Are people really just going to let these deranged extremists hatch their children into useful little low IQ subservient pliable morons for the parasitic kakistocracy to mold to create even more Orwellian futures – duhhh!!!
Were at the stage where they are injecting kids in the schools with experimental gene therapy products which are still in clinical trials and people are going along with it, despite the inventor of the technology putting everything on the line to announce that injecting kids is completely insane and dangerous. Peak moron is upon us.
Dr Robert Malone quote – convid jab technology inventor
My recommendation is to resist and fight to protect your children
Dr. Robert Malone on Brain Damage, Myocarditis, Blood Clots And MANY Other Vaccine Risks
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RSz3ZNzZGsTR/
This is the logic of the teachers. Why would you want people who are this dumb teaching your children… Read more »
Trouble is, my son loves school. We tried to emigrate from the UK as a family last winter. We ended up coming back after a few months. Mainly because my son lost everything that gives him his sense of meaning in life. He felt completely alienated and bereft.
Living isolated at home being home educated is very one dimensional as well for an ambitious, competitive, driven academic teenager.
No this is a situation where you have to put your foot down – unless you want your child to grow up to be a trained programmed dumbed down product of the scum running the British state. You have to see this more long term than predictable issues during transition. Home schooling is one option – but there are others. Some schools are not so Nazified – Forest Schools for example. Also in the wake of all this madness Co-Operative schools are poppping up all over the place – parents setting up their own schools in response to the tyranny.
Send them to the place where they are normalising medical experiments and forcing them to wear masks all day long – but dont be surprised when youre sat on a hospital ward because of issues that arise from being forced to wear a mask all day every day which CAN lead to major complications.
This paper was retracted (for political reasons) but to discount every word in it is foolish. Here is theri summary these are the known issues of mask wearing long term:
Physiological and Psychological Effects of Wearing Facemask and Their Potential Health Consequences.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Physiological EffectsPsychological… Read more »
I’m glad my kids are no longer at school so I don’t have to deal with this madness.
I remember vividly when my kids were at school that we weren’t allowed to take them out of school for any reason, especially not holidays, unless it was an emergency or sanctioned by the head teacher. Apparently even missing a single day of education would be a disaster for the child and they’d never catch up.
But now for some reason on the say so of an inaccurate test, or a frightened head teacher, or if you have genuine cold symptoms (not covid) it’s ok to send pupils home, and even close entire classes, years or schools.
And mandating masks is madness, as they don’t work and cause harm.
Another thing I remember is that schools were very, very reluctant to administer any medication to school children – even prescribed medication. They didn’t even allow kids to take it into school to take themselves. They absolutely avoided any medical intervention if possible, but now they are requiring invasive medical interventions such as nasal swabs and masks (which are being used as medical devices).
I retired from teaching in my mid-fifties and have thought about going back into the classroom as a supply teacher just to cause havoc. I’d be quite happy to dispel the Covid myth, face mask bollocks and the rest to any classes I came across. Likewise, give my fairly right wing views on immigration and the bollocks that is climate change. I daresay I would be found out quite quickly and asked to leave/not be asked back, but it would be worth it if just a few students took notice.
This is an excellent letter. I have copied it to my MP in the hope that he may read it and join the Conservative rebels. Probably that’s a vain hope, but we must at least try. If only Boris had an equivalent pair to deal with the teachers’ union as Mrs Thatcher did with the miners!
A masked teacher staring at his masked pupils is seeing his own death in their faces.
Teachers, pupils: Disobey.
Totally outrageous, unjustified and disgusting !
It should be resisted ! Since when did ‘Education’ become deliberate Child Abuse?
This is blatantly sadistic tyranny – nothing whatever to do with Health.
Is “Sir” Whitty behind it?
Great points and questions.
At what point do we accept that … we need to move on from bizarre, largely symbolic, practices that seem disproportionately targeted at those in least danger? When do we acknowledge that we are as safe from this as we can ever be and it is not reasonable to ask people to exist like this? At no point in my life have the actions of a government so directly affected my life, and in such a negative way.”
My wife is also a school teacher. She is demoralized knowing she has at least another month of policing mask-wearing among her students.
She doesn’t have to police it, she has a choice, perhaps she could ask the head for their completed risk/benefit assessment.
She doesn’t have to police it and in fact has a duty not to. I undermine the mask policy at my school all the time and am never challenged because I believe deep down everyone knows it’s horseshit.
This act, of forcing masks on school children, is absolutely incontrovertible evidence of the extent of the planning that has gone in to the reset.
There are no studies showing benefits of mask wearing anywhere and plenty confirming what anybody with a small brain could work out for themselves – they can’t possibly work. Even those pushing masks such as Fauci, Whitty and lots of others can be found on the Internet, in videos, confirming that there is no benefit to masks.
So why are they pushing masks?
The physical and psychological damage caused by masks is enormous. In their most important, formative years children are being stripped of real learning and are forced to live a wholly dystopian school experience which will undermine their physical health – doubly so – if they have been injected – and just as important their mental health.
The masks are aimed at producing a generation of children which will be barely literate, physically wrecked and mentally approaching Zombie status.
The likes of Zahawi, Bozo, Gove, Gates, Bliar, Fauci, Charlie Windsor, Schwab and the rest know all this because it is precisely what they want – a generation of children who are physical… Read more »
Running out of energy today but
“I will not be enforcing any of this in my lessons”.
Bravo that
manteacher.It is absolutely vital for everyone to challenge this mask bs by refusing to wear one. There is no excuse at all for adults putting up with this. I realise it’s much more difficult for children, and really unfair to ask them to face down authority in this way, but surely if they stick together, they could do it? The other day I was in a shop and 50% of the customers were bare-faced. We can beat this. We have to beat it.
Yes no excuse
Any adult wearing a mask because they are afraid of being challenged is complicit
Ever since this nonsense began, now nearly 2 years ago, I have never worn a mask and refuse to do so. I have not even bought one. I do have a neck band which I pull over my head and only partially cover my mouth on any fleeting visit to a shop or the cinema, but I always pull it down to speak and once in the cinema,seated, just keep the band around my neck. Even in a shop etc more often than not the band is around my neck. In any case I never have it over my nose as I wear specs and it is intolerable. Unfortunately circumstances has necessitated several visits to GP and hospital with my wife and I adopt the same policy. When talking to the staff, (who often are not wearing a mask) we remove any cover to the mouth.
I am in great distress right now. Its my son’s GCSE’s this summer. He is highly self-motivated and has got up early every day of the holidays to revise. He is eager to be part of the academic and cultural life of society and has complied with the masks at school because he did not want to make anyone feel awkward and does not want to stand out as he is shy. Not because he thinks they do any good. A couple of days ago he finally admitted to me that they make him feel breathless.
I am dreading telling him that he is going to be suffocated for 8 hours a day for at least a month.
I have said this before, but to paraphrase George Orwell:
‘If you want to imagine the future, imagine a mask smothering a human face forever’
Are you [& by extension, your child’s school] familiar with the Tapton School case last year?
“The Court’s decision emphasises that no child in any school can be forced to wear a mask. No medical exemption is required.
The Court also noted that the school had not provided enough evidence to find it had conducted a full risk assessment or that it was sufficient. Neither the government nor the school has assessed the risk of physical or psychological harms from wearing masks throughout almost all the school day (in classrooms, in corridors and on public transport) and the Court acknowledged the detailed evidence of those harms by Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner, Ms Simone Plaut and Clinical Psychologist, Dr Zenobia Storah…”
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-masks-in-schools/
It couldn’t be clearer that your son is exempt from wearing a mask under the law. See “people for whom putting on, wearing or removing a face covering will cause severe distress” on this page at http://www.gov.uk. All that is required to be exempt are the words “I am exempt”, and I can confirm that that works when challenged by the police. Of course I realise this is difficult for a child in a school situation, but there is no choice now. It’s time for good people who wouldn’t normally cause any trouble to act. How about printing copies of that page from gov.uk, highlighting the relevant section, and handing a copy to anyone who doesn’t seem to be aware of the rules?
Hi Chris, thank you so much for your reply. We have always known that he could claim exemption. I myself have never worn the mask. I have urged him to claim exemption. I have had several, lengthy discussions with various members of staff about the harms masks cause. I was informed that I was the only parent in the school to do so.
Compliance at the school is very high and the demonisation of dissidence is pervasive. The school is truly covidian and dissent is treated as selfishness and stupidity. My son is dedicated, hard working and high achieving and does not want to be perceived that way, quite understandably.
It is a paradigmatic wall that is impossible to breach.
I went to the school Christmas Concert in December and got a taste of what happens to dissenters. I was the only maskless person. I could feel the scorn from everyone else. People ignored me, looked through me, but I did not cave. Even the barstaff were disdainful and did not want to serve me or chat to me. It was painful, but I could not compromise. However, I can see why my son would not want to be treated… Read more »
My daughter’s private prep school near Swindon is the same. Or rather the parents are . Wet farts .Wealthy wet farts too. The worst kind of wet fart .We did not go to the Carol Concert as we did not want to look at a load of weird masked faces trying to sing … still, the school could go its own way on these things but it just does not. Fuck ’em all is my attitude – one that is probably not that helpful. But fuck them, allof them , really , what a bunch of herberts. Three quarters of them jabbed their 12 year olds – much easier for skiing over christmas after all.
I wonder if they unconsciously feel guilty about their privilege and so pay their penance in compliance?!! Or maybe can sense the resentment towards the privilege and hope to ward it off??
I should add that there was a speech by the head before the concert entreating everyone to wear a mask in order to get us out of this as quickly as possible.
They all seem to genuinely believe that compliance will end things more quickly! No wonder they were looking at me so disapprovingly.
I completely understand your son’s position. As a schoolboy I certainly could not have stood up to such pressures, which of course makes their behaviour all the more despicable. Preying on the helpless is beyond contempt.
(whoops! GCSEs – sorry! embarrassing apostrophe mistake)!
It is imperative that parents take action against this and instruct their children to all claim exemption.
Bravo, that man or woman.
I’ve done the same although I have never been a member. I wrote to my MP and stated very clearly that I will be campaigning against him at the next election and will never vote Tory again. I also briefly stated my reasons for my decision.
They have not for one-second thought about the mental health of people, the damage they have done to society, the destruction they have wreaked and the untold tens of thousands they have handed a death warrant both now and in the very long term future. They didn’t even force the NHS to reform and fix the issues.
Re the NHS.. I’d like them to explain why, if in a health crisis, the government have been reducing bed capacity while the population has been growing. Exactly the same health policies have been enacted in France.. massive bed reduction..
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So they keep the hospitals are overworked narrative alive. I was talking to a nurse who works at the QE hospital in Gateshead. She told me they closed around 30% of wards. Then the local news claimed the QE was running at full capacity. When in reality it was more like 70%.
On 28 August 2020 Jenny Harries, then Deputy CMO, told a No 10 press briefing that “evidence for face coverings is not very strong in either direction”. The reason was not scientific but psychological “it has a supportive element, if you like, in what has been a very worrying period”. So, this was a measure which played to increasing the public’s insecurity rather than its confidence, and for which Harries did not believe there was scientific validity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/uknews/video-2239200/Video-Dr-Jenny-Harries-Evidence-face-coverings-isnt-strong.html
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021/rr-2
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
Masking of any kind is disgusting behaviour, let alone making children wear them for hours on end.
Breathing in your own exhaust gasses all day, and not supplying the brain/lungs with enough oxygen is utterly destructive, tantamount to torture. Storing up all manner of health problems for the future, let alone starving young developing brains of oxygen. In France they are now mandating it for children starting a 6 years old. Absolutely sick!
The government, health/education authorities know this of course, but are prepared to countenance it. Proof, if any is needed, that none of what’s been happening the last 21 months is about health whatsoever. Its about control, conditioning, obedience training, and the road to an eventual genocide.
Buy or DIY a mask from curtain material. It is a ‘mask’ but does nothing. (deaf people are still miserable though)
As usual the use of language is deliberately vague and we need clarity.
Are masks compulsory or is this simply guidelines? If guidelines then the schools can simply reject them. If compulsory what legislative act makes them so? What is the enforcement mechanism?
if anything less than a legal requirement then it is optional and I suggest making that clear to the schools and that your children won’t be complying.
let’s get to the root of who is driving this abs if as expected it’s the unions ‘insisting’ then target the teachers involved.
Perhaps Toby with his links to the education system can shed some light?
Most people seem more than happy to use kids as human shields re “vaccines” so no great surprise sadly.
The only surprise is that it’s for all kids, not just the refuseniks.
we dont need to be baffled by uncivilised societies which practised child sacrifice any more
I work in schools, not teaching staff, the kids pull their masks of regularly, it’s soffucating them that’s why, who wouldn’t, when they do they get shouted at, disgusting, staff are terrified of losing their jobs that’s why they impose the rules of course, it’s like Stalins Russia, but without the humour.
Sometimes I feel like shouting take the things off but jobs are hard to come now as they willfully destroyed the economy, government are in thrall to dark forces I fear, they have to go, all of them, it’s evil.
Damn them all.
No surprise that the Organ Grindr and his pet monkey have caved in to the teaching unions.
When will the Conservative party understand that the teaching unions do not exist to facilitate teaching of children.