Parents Say Florida School Used Rope to Tie Mask on Their Non-Verbal Special Needs Daughter Without Their Knowledge — FOR WEEKS
Outraged parents have accused Brevard Public Schools (BPS) in Florida of using a nylon rope to tie a mask on their 7-year-old special needs daughter for weeks without their knowledge or consent.
Sofia Steele, 7, has Down syndrome and an enlarged tongue which puts her at serious risk while wearing a mask.
The girl’s father, Dr. Jeffrey Steele, believed she was exempt from the school’s mask mandate as she had been returning home without one. One day, the school forgot to remove it before sending her to her parents.
The Federalist reports that “officials at the school had been bullying Sofia to put on the mask for six weeks, backed by BPS’s illegal mask mandate, which has been pushed by lightning-rod school board member Jennifer Jenkins,
