Court Ruling Means California Schools Can Violate Students’ Rights When Following Public Health Orders

Commentary As we near the end of the school year, a new court ruling may have some parents rethinking whether they want to enroll their children in California’s public schools this fall. Those of you living in Southern California will likely remember the case of Aidan Palicke. An academically-gifted Yorba Linda High School student and captain of the track team, Aidan was forced to take his exams outside in 40-degree weather wearing only a t-shirt. School officials singled out Aidan for wearing a formerly acceptable mesh face mask to school during the COVID era. “I was freezing, and all of the other students were looking at me through the window,” Aidan told me. “My fingers were in so much pain from the cold that it was hard to concentrate on my exam.”...