Joyce Krawiec serves in the North Carolina Senate. She represents Davie County and Forsyth County, NC. Christian, wife, mother, small business owner, and conservative.
This was a busy week at the General Assembly in Raleigh. As you know, we have been in the middle of redistricting. The court had ordered that the Congressional and the North Carolina House and Senate maps had to be redrawn. The deadline to submit to the court was Friday, February 18. There was lots of midnight oil burned at the GA this week. Staffers literally worked all night Wednesday night. I hope they are all getting some rest now.
The Supreme Court is controlled by a Democrat majority and they have not been favorable to the Republican majority in the House and Senate. Even though the Constitution requires that the Legislature draw district maps, the court has intervened repeatedly since Republicans took the majority in 2011. The Constitution requires that districts be redrawn every ten years, after the census. This is required because of population shifts and districts must be proportional.
This will be my fifth (5) election. I have never had the same district twice. So much for districts lasting ten years as the Constitution requires. The Court has redrawn the district for every election. I have no reason to believe it won’t happen again.
In my tenure in the Senate, I have represented different parts of Forsyth County in each election. I have represented Yadkin County and Davie County. The new district currently has District 31 representing northern and eastern Forsyth and all of Stokes County. I am honored to serve and, if reelected, I will represent all constituents of the district wherever it might be.
But there is some good news. I filed a bill sometime back called “Free the Smiles”. SB 173 passed the House and Senate this week. This bill puts parents in charge of whether their children wear masks. They are the decision makers. Parents have constantly complained about the masks and the harm it is doing to their children. The Governor and School Boards have paid little attention.
SB 173 requires that local public-school units allow parents discretion in whether their child wears a mask. The parents will notify the school once a year of their decision. This prevents the school from making notification requirements on an ongoing basis. The school may not segregate or treat children differently because of decisions regarding masks.
This is a simple bill but it does so much. It puts decisions back in the hands of parents where it should have been all along. We will learn more about the damage done to our children, through mask requirements, for many years to come.
A friend told me a sad story this week. She teaches a Sunday School class. She was working on a project with the class and the children were drawing a picture of people. One boy drew all of the people with eyes and no mouths or noses. How sad.
Speech therapists report a 364% increase in small children with speech delays. They can’t see the words formed and it’s harder for them to learn. A child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins warned that students are falling behind due to masking. It “affects learning and development, particularly for our youngest learners” and “provides little discernible benefit.”
The consequences of masking are everywhere and the “science” doesn’t support masking requirements. That’s the reason most countries don’t require masking for children. The United States is only one of seven countries, in the western world to require masks. There is no scientific evidence to support that these countries, with mask requirements, have better outcomes.
We’ve all seen the hypocrisy of elected officials who require masks for everyone and then are caught without wearing one themselves. Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams was seen recently talking to a large group of children. The children were all masked and she was maskless. Many politicians have been caught enjoying themselves without masks while requiring their “little people” to stay covered. It’s not about the science, obviously, it’s about control and power.
No matter what you do, some people are never going to be happy. Some of the people who have been yelling the loudest about ending mask mandates have been the loudest objectors to my SB 173. They are blasting me because they say parents have to “opt out” and they shouldn’t have to. They are saying I should have ended masks altogether.
These same people who don’t won’t to be told that they must wear a mask, now want to tell the people who do that they can’t wear a mask. Go figure. As you’ve heard me say before, some people have the attitude, “If I don’t like it nobody does it. If I do like it, then everybody does it.”
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Joyce Krawiec serves in the North Carolina Senate. She represents Davie County and Forsyth County, NC. Christian, wife, mother, small business owner, and conservative.