Get the latest BPR news delivered free to your inbox daily. SIGN UP HERE
A suburban-Chicago school board member reportedly made some below-the-belt comments to a citizen who was trying to speak maskless at a public meeting.
“You can wear your mask on your f—ing balls. If you don’t wear the f—-g mask, you get the f— out of here,” Glenbrook, Ill., High School District 225 Board of Ed member Joel Taub allegedly shouted in what may or may not be a teachable moment during an exchange that was captured on video.
When the man, whose first name is evidently Mark and who implied that he had a medical exemption from the face mask requirement, had stepped up to the podium in the public participation segment with a strict two-minute time limit for each speaker, the polite moderator told him to put his mask on.
“President Biden and J.B. Pritzker both speak without a mask. And I do have an exemption. Will you allow me to speak? Please, I’m not gonna interrupt you when you speak.,” Mark said in the room where it appeared everyone else was masked up.
In the back and forth that followed about mask-wearing and resetting the time clock before the seven-member board, Mark pointed to the ID card of some sort hanging around his neck and said that “I have exemption….I don’t even know you guys, and I don’t want to explain my medical situation. I thought I’d be allowed to speak. Can I rest my clock?”
Watch the sequence embedded below and draw your own conclusions (*warning for language):
As the discussion continued, Taub appeared to disagree with the moderator who seemed to be about to let Mark speak without him donning a mask, a development which Taub claimed ran counter to a “promise,” while Mark lamented about being interrupted. “Do I get to speak or not?”
Mark also wondered if Taub was the mask police and whether the latter, rather than the moderator, was in charge of the meeting.
“I have a mask. I can wear the mask on my head if you want,” Mark added, which apparently triggered his adversary who started dropping the F-bombs, and which prompted the moderator to call for a five-minute timeout in the proceedings.
“Get him the f— out of the room if he can’t put his f—–g mask on,” Taub reportedly added.
It’s not clear if Mark ever got a chance to get to his actual comments.
The next board of education election in the district is scheduled for April 2023.
"You can wear the mask on your f****** b*lls! If you don't wear the f****** mask, you get the f*** out of here!"
– Board Member at @Glenbrook_south to public commenterpic.twitter.com/aPMqDLrVFf
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 15, 2022
In the meantime, the above-referenced Pritzker, the state’s Democrat governor, suffered a setback this week in his attempt to continue imposing a school mask mandate, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
“Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mask mandate for schools hit another roadblock on Tuesday when a bipartisan legislative committee rejected the Illinois Department of Public Health’s attempt to reintroduce the governor’s emergency COVID-19 protocols for classrooms across the state. The department’s emergency rules — which served as the state’s official guidance on masks, testing and exclusion for those exposed to the coronavirus in schools — expired on Sunday.”
Earlier this month, a state judge temporarily blocked the mask mandate in 100-plus school districts.
Progressive Pritzker plans to lift the mask mandate as of February 28 for most indoor public settings, except for schools.
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
Robert@bizpacreview.com
Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
- ‘Petty heffa’: The View’s Ana Navarro skewered for cracking on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s appearance - December 4, 2022
- Women’s college volleyball game features incredible rally complete with diving, table-crashing safe - December 4, 2022
- Wild brawl breaks out at Fitness Connection gym, takes deciding turn when woman enters picture - December 4, 2022
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
