I'm here tonight to support parents' rights to choose for their children.

What is the best thing for them in going to school?

And I think that it's important for them to be able to see each other, see the teachers'

mouths, see the expressions of their friends.

I'm here because my son, Wyatt, has type 1 diabetes.

He's going into sixth grade.

It's better for masks to be worn and it for it to be mandated because what we're doing

now, having it be a choice here in Texas, is not working.

We respect them wearing a mask, absolutely.

Just want them to support our choice to also not want to wear masks.

There's no scientific proof that that even helps stop the spread of the virus.

It's a pacifier that makes them feel better.

I am fine with any parent who feels a mask is what is needed for their child, but after

our experience last year, we will not mask our children at school.

It caused way too much harm academically, socially and emotionally.

I'm looking at a 0.01% of children that have died from COVID.

I am not going to be loud to you and say that I know these numbers.

That's one thing that I'll prove.

It's not worth the case if that were true information that you saw.

Do you feel that is still necessary to mask children?

Yes.

At the age of their ad when my child puts on a mask even as his parent, I can't understand

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