For immediate release:
NEW JERSEY- 130 parent advocacy groups across the state of New Jersey have rejected local and national calls for new lockdowns and enforced masking of their children in an open letter to President Joe Biden and Governor Phil Murphy.
The full text of the letter is below:Â
President Joe Biden
The White House
Governor Phil Murphy
Office of Governor
Dear President Biden and Governor Murphy,
We represent over 41,579 New Jersey families across 130 parent-teacher advocacy groups, and we are here to inform you that your uninvited reign of destruction over the children of New Jersey is finished.
We have watched the last few weeks unfold in abject horror - observing our government institutions and leaders failing our children at every turn, again. Your renewed calls for lockdowns, enforced mask mandates, and masking in schools is not rooted in science and is objectively cruel to the most vulnerable in our society, our children. We believe that you are in fact aware of this and continue to play political games with our children, despite our efforts to work with you over the last twelve months.
We are here to inform you that this ends today. Governor Murphy, we call upon you to immediately rescind EO 251 and 253, and return the decision-making process regarding masking to the rightful deciders-our local Boards of Education. You have disregarded the doctrine of Home Rule in NJ, rendering unnecessary all local Boards of Education, Superintendents, and other supervisory roles, should you continue to rule by centralized mandate. You endanger the population of special interests you have intended to please-public teacher and employee unions.Â
Instead of encouraging compliance, you have forced us into dissent and withdrawal from the system of cruel and unconstitutional impositions placed upon our children and unbearable burdens tasked upon our public servants. We are leaving the system to protect our children, resulting in long-term budgetary gaps and reduced demand for public education. The ESSR funds and associated mandates will eventually expire, but do not expect us to return to the system.
We anticipate that educators will be joining us in objecting to these mandates being imposed upon them as a condition of further employment, and we will ally with their cause.Â
From this point forward, we consider any mandatory mask mandate to be an impermissible medical intervention. The community has not been presented with any long-term safety trial or clinical studies for daily mask use by children. However, there is plenty of evidence establishing the negative side effects of the physical, immunological and psychological impact of forcing children and adolescents to endure extended masking, far outweighing the remote chance of any benefit in transmission reduction.
Choices regarding health are a civil right, grounded in bodily autonomy, dignity, and the privacy of the individual. The profound lack of dignity, privacy, autonomy and treatment of children is appalling and discriminatory.
As concerned parents, effective immediately we will not:
1. Mask our children in schools
2. Allow you to use your private sector counterparts to enforce invasive mask mandates on our children in various stores or at community activities
3. Subject our children to any further local, regional, or national lockdowns or movement restriction
Simply put, these are not your children. They are ours and they too, are Americans with rights. They are our responsibility and our most beloved. They are not yours.
We applaud and support the school boards, businesses, and localities that have respected our parental choice. We anticipate and appreciate their continued support of our right to choose what is best for our children and individual families.
If you are a parent reading this, hear us clearly:Â you are not alone. We urge you to connect with other parents and make your voice heard.
We are strong. We are united, nationwide. We are in control. We have never and will never co-parent with the government.
You have this moment to take a step back from the brink. We urge you to restore our confidence in the appropriate balancing of rights of parents while still supporting our shared goal of the health and safety of all stakeholders. We thank you for your careful consideration of our concerns.
Signed,Â
Child Advocate Coalition, LLC
Freedom Speaking LLC
Shielding Liberty LLC
NJ Fresh Faced Schools
Unmask NJ Students
NJStandsUP
Unmask NJ Catholic Schools
NJ Fresh Faced Public Employees
NJ Parent-Teacher Unity in Schools
No Mask Flash Mob NJ-II
Freedom Loving Teachers of NJ
Team PYC-Protect Your Children-NJ Open TeamÂ
WE The Parents (Old Bridge)Â
D.A.M.M. Dads Against Mask MandatesÂ
Unmask our Kids in Berkeley Township
Unmask Toms River SchoolsÂ
Unmask Hammonton School District
U N M A S K our kids (Lacey Township)Â
NJ Parents for Barefaced SchoolsÂ
NJ Parents Alliance. Enough is Enough.
NJ Parents Against Indoctrination in our SchoolsÂ
Bernards NJ-Mask Optional/Unmask our childrenÂ
Wayne NJ Schools UNMASK our kids!
Wanaque Parents for Mask-Free School
Unmask Our West Milford Kids
Unmask Springfield NJ School
Wall says No masks in September!!Â
Reopen All NJ Schools and Fight for Our ChildrenÂ
Unmask Montville Township
NO MASKS for Students in RunnemedeÂ
Medical Exemption AcceptedÂ
South Jersey Freedom Fighters for KidsÂ
North & Voorhees-Make Masks OptionalÂ
Unmask Clark StudentsÂ
Pittsgrove Parents Against MasksÂ
HVRSD Parents’ Voice for Mask ChoiceÂ
Millstone Twp for BAREFACED SchoolsÂ
Byram Parents for Liberty
Free the Smiles in Garfield Public SchoolsÂ
Sparta Township Parents/Residents/Tax Payers for Mask ChoiceÂ
Unmask Wood Ridge StudentsÂ
MASKS OFF-OCEAN TWPÂ
Open Schools in Westwood/TwpÂ
Liberate Lenape Region School DistrictsÂ
Unmask Rutherford Students for September (Voices of Rutherford Parents)Â
Unmask Central Kids NowÂ
Unmask our Children Glen RockÂ
No Masks for Students in GTPSÂ
Howell Wants Their Kids Back to School Full Time UNMASKEDÂ
Unmask Our Children Northfield/Linwood School Districts
For the Mantua KidsÂ
Lincoln Park-Make Masks OptionalÂ
Moorestown Barefaced SchoolsÂ
Unmask Hammonton School District
UNMASK OUR KIDS INÂ STAFFORDÂ AND SOUTHERN
Unmask Brick Schools
The Real Parents of Stafford Twp NJ
Concerned Parents and Citizens of the DVRHS Sending District
NJ Fresh Faced Schools’ affiliates below by county:
Atlantic/Cape May County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Bergen County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Burlington County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Camden County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Cumberland County Fresh Faced schoolsÂ
Essex County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Gloucester County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Hudson County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Hunterdon County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Mercer County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Middlesex County NJ Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Monmouth County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Morris County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Ocean County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Passaic County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Salem County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Somerset County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Sussex County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Union County Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Warren County Fresh Faced Schools
NJ Fresh Faced Schools’ affiliates below by town:
Audubon/Haddon Heights Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Bellmawr/Barrington/Runnemede Fresh Faced Schools
Belmar Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Branchburg Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Bridgewater Raritan Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Burlington Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Camden Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Cherry Hill Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Cinnaminson/Palmyra Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Clinton Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Collingswood/Oaklyn Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Colts Neck Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Columbus/Mansfield/Springfield Township Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Delran/Riverside Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Evesham Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Franklin Township Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Gloucester City/Brooklawn Fresh FacedÂ
Gloucester Township Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Flemington Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Haddonfield Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Hamilton Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Jackson Township Fresh Faced Schools
Jersey City Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Lawrence Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Little Egg Harbor Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Maple Shade Fresh Faced Schools Marlboro Fresh Faced Schools - Concerned Parents Seeking Positive ChangeÂ
Medford/Medford Lakes Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Millburn/Short Hills Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Moorestown Fresh Faced Schools Mount Laurel Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
NP Parents Against Mandatory Masks in School (New Providence)Â
Parsippany-Troy Hills Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Paterson Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Pennsauken/Merchantville Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Pitman Fresh Faced Schools
Point Pleasant Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Princeton Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Randolph Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Readington Township Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Rochelle Park Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Tewksbury Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Toms River/Barrier Island Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Trenton/Ewing Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Unmask Ridgefield Park/Little Ferry SchoolsÂ
Verona Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Vineland Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Voorhees Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Wall Township Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
West Deptford Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Westampton Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
Willingboro Fresh Faced SchoolsÂ
FRSD PARENTS FOR CHOICE (Flemington-Raritan)
Freedom Speaking LLC and Shielding Liberty LLC have partnered with the Child Advocate Coalition LLC to unite with all mask-optional advocacy groups in New Jersey. Views expressed by the individual members or groups may or may not represent the views of the individual members or entities referenced above, however the entities are proud to share a platform for medical freedom.
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