NYC Parents Want In-person Meeting With Mayor Over Toddler Mask Mandate: ‘Our Calls Have Gone Unanswered’

NYC Parents Want In-person Meeting With Mayor Over Toddler Mask Mandate: ‘Our Calls Have Gone Unanswered’
A girl, wearing a mask, walks down a street in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City on April 14, 2020. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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A frustrated group of more than 200 New York City parents have called the city’s mayor and public health chief to sit down and talk to them about the prolonged mask mandates for toddlers.

Under the city’s public health policy, masks remain mandatory for children aged 2 to 4 in public schools and daycare centers. Mayor Eric Adam’s order to extend the mandate beyond its March expiration was initially struck down by a Staten Island judge, who called it “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable,” but was later restored by an appeals court.

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