To encourage you to send letters like this to your schools?

[NameChange2271]

Name changed for this as apparently it’s an unpopular opinion; but I think it’s important to protect our children.

Please can I encourage you to send a letter like this into all your children’s schools.

Dear Headteacher

I am writing to inform you that (Child Name) is exempt from wearing a face covering of any kind, as per government legislation.

There are many exemptions from wearing a face mask, which incorporate hidden disabilities, including but not limited to:

(I) because of any physical or mental impairment or illness or disability (Section 6 of the equality act 2010)

(II) without severe distress

Section 6 of the equality act states that schools must not discriminate against a student because of their disability.

I am concerned that my child will be singled out for not wearing a mask and would like to remind you that this is also discriminatory.

(Childs Name) is under no obligation to provide proof of this exemption and is protected from doing so by the Data Protection Act 2018

I have also sent a copy of this letter to our solicitors.

Kind Regards
(Your Name)

So he’s not exempt at all, he just doesn’t like it and “my mummy says I don’t have to wear it so there”

This level of sheer stupidity is the reason we’re having more restrictions and will end up with more deaths.

Wear a fucking mask unless you’re genuinely exempt. ”don’t like it” isn’t a reason to be exempt.

Why are you encouraging others to do this?

Get a grip.

Aside from disagreeing with your entire premise, your letter is a load of shit. Might give your solicitor a good laugh though so go ahead and send it 👍🏻

Oh, I see he doesn't actually have an impairment which prevents him from wearing a mask. Fuck you then and stop hiding behind legislation which is designed to support the vulnerable. I have an intimate knowledge of the EA 2010 because I had to fight tooth and nail for my child to be included at school without being put in life threatening situations. Don't make a fucking mockery of it because your child doesn't feel like doing something they don't want to do. At least tell them to own it and make a protest statement if that's what you are trying to do. Don't try to piggy back off other people's rights. You disgust me.

SS is exempt but at the moment he’s happy to wear a mask. If he can not tolerate wearing one when his stress levels are too high I trust the school to sort it sensibly- I see no need to send a letter like yours.

@NameChange2271

School have made masks compulsory in corridors and the dinner hall. They are giving passes to exempt students but I don’t want my son pestered by every teacher about where his mask is.

So EVERY child (including yours) is placed at increased risk?

Sounds like a sh*t good idea to me.

Go on, send it - they need a good laugh in the staffroom.

This letter has been doing the rounds on Facebook etc. It's even been mentioned and debunked in several papers and news articles.

By all means send this letter in to your darling child's school.
Feel free to cause problems for the already understaffed and underfunded school.
Isolate your child from their friends - will you isolate them from family too?
Carry on forcing your anti establishment mind set on your child.

My question to you is this - what exactly do you hope to achieve by this?
That enough parents to send this letter into their child's school so the schools back down?

Cause unrest and mayhem in an already stressed school who's ONLY concerns are to keep children safe and educate your child?

And what next?
Stand at the gates and hand these letters out to parents?
Tell the kids they don't have to wear their masks?

I doubt it - you prefer to hide behind a keyboard where you feel safe and secure hidden from scrutiny!

But if it makes you feel important then carry on - use your child as the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' to test your beliefs and incompetence as a parent!

Shame on you!

Well if you don't like the school's policy, OP, you are always welcome to de-register and homeschool instead.

I see that "advice" given often in schools threads, perhaps it's applicable here?

Guarantee this Op (interesting first post by the way) will be the first to complain if her child has to isolate due to infections within school.

I was a solicitor for 17 years and have a child who is exempt and I don't know where to start with the letter.

Way to raise an obnoxious spoilt brat, op. I imagine it's already too late for your child, sadly. This'll be the tip of the iceberg.

If only Covid could be defeated by Karens...

You are utterly ridiculous.

@KillingEvenings

If only Covid could be defeated by Karens...

You are pathetic OP. Is it looming Brexit that is turning some Brits into the lowest brow Americans? Muh Lawyer! Muh rIgTHs!

No way. My child will be following the rules that the school put in place. Unless your child has a medical exemption, in which case the staff will be aware, then your child needs to wear one too. Being precious or selfish is not an option. Homeschooling is though if you can't follow the rules.

Is this secondary or primary?

I’m torn between saying don’t send it and don’t bother the school in these difficult times. Then, on the other hand, I’m thinking send it in as they could probably do with a good laugh.

Please can I encourage you to send a letter like this into all your children’s schools.

So we are encouraging parents to lie about medical exemptions now?

Not just medical cases but "all your children's schools".

And this solicitor letter thingie is bizarre! You are aware that there were children with SN and medical problems in schools before this, are you, and that sometimes they got teased or discriminated against? We did NOT as their parents start our communication with their new school through a solicitor's letter.

And nobody (no really, nobody) sent round letters exhorting all parents to request their children be exempt from PE lessons or from using the stairs or whatever. I can't for the life of me recall a situation where all parents were supposed to request the use of a wheelchair for their child because mine had to use one. If my child got teased, that was for the school to deal with in retrospect.

School have made masks compulsory in corridors and the dinner hall. They are giving passes to exempt students but I don’t want my son pestered by every teacher about where his mask is

YABU

1. If your DS is exempt, then he'll have a pass.

2. If he just doesn't like wearing one, then I think that it's time for a conversation with him about respect & care or others, and sometimes we have to do things we find uncomfortable or that we don't like, in order to look after others.

3. If you're one of these "Don't touch my civil liberties" idiots, then you need a good conversation with yourself about respect & care or others, and sometimes we have to do things we find uncomfortable or that we don't like, in order to look after others.

If I was the headmaster and getting letters like this I think I might invest in a cabinet somewhere for these letters to be pinned up for the teachers to see them and know child X is exempt.

It would also help the teachers know which kids have those parents too.

@KillingEvenings

If only Covid could be defeated by Karens...

I can see OP thundering through the school's hallways, screeching about talking to the manager!

Oh my God that letter is hilarious! Do you not have a good relationship with the school OP? Why so obnoxious and heavy handed. If your child is exempt the school will issue a pass for the express purpose of being able to demonste that exemption. If course teachers are going to ask to see it as they enforce the rules. Suck it up and show the pass for God's sake. It's exactly the same as if they have been issued with a uniform infringement card, to show while they are in the process of fixing it.

Of course you name changed

Get a grip. If your child has a genuine reason for exemption, explain to the school and they'll note it.

Another bloody stupid Call to Action from the UsForUs campaign that think Archie and Evie are having their Human Rights taken away 🙄