California Officials Raid Preschool & Interview 2-year-olds Over Covid Mask Compliance
Peak Insanity.
California officials raised a private day care for children as young as two years old over their mask compliance. And oh, they interviewed the children without their parents’ consent.
Officials with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) visited all three locations of Aspen Leaf Preschool in January after receiving a complaint that the school was not enforcing the state’s mask mandate, according to the CDSS’ response to a complaint by the preschool’s owner, Howard Wu.
According to the CDSS letter, which Wu shared with Fox News Digital, officials with the agency’s Community Care Licensing Division entered the three preschool locations on Jan. 19, separated the children from their teachers and interviewed them privately about their masking practices.
In his complaint to the agency, Wu described the investigation as a “simultaneous, multi-school raid” that resulted in “unnecessary and inappropriate child interviews.”
“Every family we heard from after the inspections were furious about the interviews,” Wu told Fox News Digital. “We were open the whole pandemic about not masking children and the reasons why. The policy was on our website. Put simply, the mask guidance says children can NOT mask when eating and sleeping. In full day child care that’s 3 hours, so masking at other times offers no health benefit. All the families (except 1 in January) supported the policy.”
The parents of children the Aspen preschool were also extremely angry at the raid.
“This gross abuse of power is shameful and unacceptable for many reasons,’ wrote parents Stephanie and Richard Rosado in another complaint seen by the Voice of San Diego.
‘The people who ordered this to be done and those who participated should be held responsible,’ the parents wrote, telling the news outlet that they spoke to their 4-year-old son about not talking to strangers just a few days before the raids.
Another parent, Connie Wu – who is unrelated to Howard Wu – said her daughter wasn’t even two years old during the January interview and that she’s too young to articulate how it made her feel.
“She’s not developmentally able to tell me. She doesn’t have the vocabulary to be able to talk about being interviewed by a stranger,’ Wu told the news outlet.
So in two years we went from “two weeks to flatten the curve” to daycares being raided and two year olds pressure to drop the dime on their caregivers. I wonder what they offered the kids, “The DA is looking to throw the book at you. Maybe you talk to us and we could see that you get cookies while you’re in time out. Maybe.”
Maybe in the future they could put undercover babies into the daycare to rat them out. Hmmm. Wait. Whoever changes their diaper might see the wire. That could be a problem.
