A local parent plans to serve District 87 with a restraining order in light of their response to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules vote last night to suspend the latest Illinois Department of Public Health emergency rules for schools.
“Last night, I had emailed Dr. Reilly and ask them if this changes anything and he had not replied to that email as of this week. I called the district office this morning and they informed me that nothing has changed since yesterday,” said D87 parent Mark Weaver.
Cities is now getting reports of an email being sent to District 87 staff emails saying that students who are maskless today will not be excluded from school and sent home, but rather will be be sent to a room with other maskless students. Parents have not received any email correspondence at a mass scale to address the JCAR legislation. JCAR is a legislative committee made up of Democrat and Republican legislators.
Weaver said they [he and his wife] are planning to filing an emergency temporary restraining order.
“Hopefully by this afternoon, I would be able to walk into my daughters’ school, by doing it the right way, and be able to remove their masks if they want to not wear a mask,” said Weaver.
Weaver said that D87 has not been able to relay to him the exact consequence of his daughter breaking the “rule” of not wearing a mask.
“At this point we cannot allow them to make things up as they go,” said Weaver. “Especially when it comes to children being somewhere for eight hours of the day.”
Weaver’s attorney has reached out to the district’s legal representation and has not gotten response. David Braun is the district’s attorney.
“After yesterday’s decision by JCAR, it took away…the executive order… and then yesterday the tools to enforce it directly… went away. But at this point in time, I don’t know what grounds schools are continuing to stand on sort of course, and asked me a date for five making up new rules for healthy kids,” said Weaver. “I think that the school districts are forgetting that they are serving the children. When you take the parents out of that communication loop, that’s a disservice to not only to the kids, but to your community.”
