Judge Knocks Down Mask Ban in Texas Schools

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A Texas judge has knocked down Gov Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in schools. The Texas judge ruled Gov. Abbott’s bad violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The Hill reports:

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sided with the defendants’ argument that masking would help lower the likelihood of disabled students, who are particularly at risk, catching the coronavirus and facilitate their safe in-person learning.

But because the executive order “precludes mask requirements in schools, Plaintiffs are either forced out of in-person learning altogether or must take on unnecessarily greater health and safety risks than their nondisabled peers,” Yeakel wrote.

“The evidence presented by Plaintiffs establishes that Plaintiffs are being denied the benefits of in-person learning on an equal basis as their peers without disabilities,” thus violating the ADA, he added.

The ruling also barred Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) from carrying out the executive order in any way.

Despite the loss, AG Paxton said he is still working to challenge the judge’s ruling.



  1. Well hopefully there is an adult present at all times with these handicap children, some of them could have panic attacks, depending on their condition.

    1. Handicap children don’t like their faces covered, period! Another thing, mask deprives the wearers of oxygen and many handicap children already have a problem with that. I was a Cub Scout leader with a pack of different forms of disabilities. I heard a teacher at a school actually taped a mask to a young mans face, because he kept pulling it off. Masking a child is child abuse!!!

  2. Masks don’t work. Too porous, unfitted.
    They will destroy this generations perspective in the name of compliance.

  3. Yet on the other hand, there are students that have adverse effects when they wear a mask, so you are putting them at greater risk for health issues because of the mask! I have grandchildren and others I know that cannot wear a mask. These children, when they wear a mask for a short period of time, become winded and dizzy. Their allergies start acting up like crazy, they end up with a sore throat and coughing, sometimes lose their voice. Another ends up in the ER with complications.
    So a mask, that does NOTHING to prevent the spread, should be a choice! The mask is like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence! But people want to believe it is safe. However, studies are now showing that it can cause more disease, other diseases that we typically didn’t have. It’s funny how my granddaughter, who doesn’t wear a mask to school, has no been ill, yet many of the masked children are getting sick from all sorts of diseases – including valley fever, strep, and mono.

  4. Some parents in Texas took 7 masks that had been worn by children in school that day to a lab and had them analyzed. The lab found 11 different bacteria in the masks that the children had been breathing in and out of their lungs all day. Healthy? I don’t think so. These politicians are killing our children with their stupid mandates. How much longer are we going to put up with this garbage? Do the people no longer have the right to choose what they do any more? Don’t look like it.

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