School board member should resign

Corine Frank, for the benefit and safety of the children in Anne Arundel County, please resign from the Anne Arundel County School Board.

You have been elected to a position of public trust where the expectation is you will put our children, not your politics, first. As the country enters its second school year of a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, it becomes more apparent by the day that we are ill-equipped to defeat it.

As hospitalizations and deaths soar, our only hope for survival is vaccinations combined with masks and social distancing. At this point, our youngest children are ineligible for vaccines so their only hope to be spared from the misery of a COVID-19 infection, which could lead to lifelong debilitating symptoms or even death, is masks.

For some reason, you thought it would be funny, at best, to hold a political fundraiser where you raised money on the platform of “stop masking kids” which translates to “take away our children’s only defense against a virus that has so far taken the lives of over 600,000 Americans and 400 children, including 10 in Maryland.”

I have no desire for my children to add to that number. Because a virtual academy is not available to all, we were planning on taking our chances and pray the virus doesn’t take hold at our children’s elementary school. After reading about your fundraiser, we are seriously exploring home-school. When I asked my son how he felt about that, his said: “safe.” As heartbreaking as that is, because of irresponsible policies being advanced by you, he is probably right. Given your public demonstration of unfitness for office, the only honorable option left for you is to resign. We need board members who are on our children’s side, not that of the virus.

Michelle Jones, Severna Park