Stop the School Mask Mandate for Maine Catholic Schools!

Through this petition, we, the concerned parents of Maine Catholic Schools choose to unite our voices and offer a firm rejection of any mandate that would require our children and/or teachers to wear a face mask or covering during the 2021-2022 school year.

We respectfully request that our school officials consider the voices within the Catholic community in making any decision that could affect the physical, social, psychological, mental and intellectual outcome of any child within our Catholic Schools.

We owe it to our children to allow them the freedom to learn in an environment that does not impose any limit upon their education.

We believe the wearing of masks should be optional. Through the past year, we have had the opportunity to evaluate the effects that a mask mandate has had on our children. Each one of us can attest to the fact that such a decision has serious long-term consequences.

It is our shared belief that if a child or teacher feels that his or her personal use of a face mask inhibits communication, promotes social barriers, creates mental or emotional anguish, produces physical illness, constricts breathing, or for any other reason denies the ability to succeed at school, then that person should maintain the freedom to choose whether or not to place a covering over his or her face.

The children within Catholic Schools in Maine deserve every opportunity to learn without limits.

Please sign this petition if you want our schools to be “mask optional.” Thank you.