Irish Teacher: Asking children to wear masks isn't abuse — they are learning to care about their communities

Jennifer Horgan says there's enough real child abuse out there, stop framing mask-wearing as something to be angry about
Irish Teacher: Asking children to wear masks isn't abuse — they are learning to care about their communities

My nine-year-old daughter was asked to name her hero for a school project last week; she decided without hesitation.

“My hero is my Great Grandma Margaret,” she wrote, “because she lived through World War Two and had to go live with strangers because people were bombing her city.”

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