Even More Leftist Fascism

Fort Worth TX

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California regulators 'raided' three preschools and individually questioned children as young as two in January after the facilities' owner refused to make preschool students wear facemasks, in violation of the state's school mask mandate. The move prompted outrage from parents, including one who said they were 'frustrated, angry, aghast and confused.' Officials with the California Department of Social Services questioned toddlers at three Aspen Leaf Preschool locations in San Diego and pressed them about the schools' Covid protocols, the Voice of San Diego first reported. All students are required to mask when not eating or sleeping per California Department of Public Health rules. The Community Care Licensing Division of the CDSS later issued Aspen Leaf Preschool a Type A citation, meaning that it poses an 'immediate' risk to child health or safety, because it refused to enforce the state's mask mandate. Aspen Leaf Preschool's owner Howard Wu wrote a complaint to the agency appealing the citation, in which he called the investigation a 'simultaneous, multi-school raid' that included in 'unnecessary and inappropriate child interviews,' according to Fox News, which viewed Wu's complaint. San Diego parents were furious after California state regulators raided three Aspen Leaf Preschool locations (pictured above pre-pandemic) and questioned children about the schools' mask policies San Diego parents were furious after California state regulators raided three Aspen Leaf Preschool locations (pictured above pre-pandemic) and questioned children about the schools' mask policies California officials carried out the investigations in response to a parent complaint in early January over Aspen Leaf Preschool's policy against requiring children to wear face masks. Above, Apsen Leaf Preschool's location on Third Avenue in San Diego Owner Howard Wu is appealing a Type A citation, arguing that the agency does not have the authority to issue the citation when the state's Department of Health put forth the mask rules Owner Howard Wu is appealing a Type A citation, arguing that the agency does not have the authority to issue the citation when the state's Department of Health put forth the mask rules “This gross abuse of power is shameful and unacceptable for many reasons,’ wrote parents Stephanie and Richard Rosado in another complaint seen by the Voice of San Diego. ‘The people who ordered this to be done and those who participated should be held responsible,’ the parents wrote, telling the news outlet that they spoke to their 4-year-old son about not talking to strangers just a few days before the raids. Another parent, Connie Wu – who is unrelated to Howard Wu - said her daughter wasn’t even two years old during the January interview and that she’s too young to articulate how it made her feel. “She’s not developmentally able to tell me. She doesn’t have the vocabulary to be able to talk about being interviewed by a stranger,’ Wu told the news outlet. The agency carried out the investigations in response to a parent complaint in early January over Aspen Leaf Preschool's mask-wearing policy. Wu said he has communicated the policy to parents since putting it in place and has never faced any previous backlash from parents. The policy says that children cannot wear a mask while eating or taking naps, which accounts for about three hours a day - and that therefore there is 'no health benefit' to wearing a mask at all other times. 'Every family we heard from after the inspections were furious about the interviews,' Wu told Fox News. 'We were open the whole pandemic about not masking children and the reasons why.' Wu added the responses of parents in his complaint to the CDSS, with many arguing that the investigation was out of line and an abuse of power. 'I do not feel this interview served my child's safety or well-being and I believe it may have given a harmful impression about her obligations to speak with strange adults in private without known caretakers present,' one parent wrote. 'I understand that while the licensing agency is authorized to conduct private interviews with the children – this authority was put in place and intended for use when there is a situation of possible abuse, which is ENTIRELY absent from this situation,' another parent wrote. 'Therefore, this agency has blatantly overstepped their authority,' the parent added.