Illinois Parents Push Back, Calling School Board Member ‘Drunk on Power’ after He Curses Out Unmasked Parent

Jennifer Preston and Paul Kelly, who attended a Chicago-area school board meeting in Illinois joined Fox and Friends Thursday morning to discuss what happened. In this meeting, a school board member cursed at a parent who was unmasked.

The man in the video (which can be seen at the end of this article) from the school board meeting is a father. He told the board members that he had an exemption from wearing a mask and added that he couldn’t articulate properly while wearing one. He told the board he could wear it on top of his head if they insisted that he had to wear it. He also pointed to President Biden and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) speaking without masks.

However, this didn’t seem to sit well with Glenbrook school board member Joel Taub. Enraged by the man’s audacity to not comply with wearing a mask while speaking, Taub exclaimed “If you don’t wear the f*cking mask, you get the f*ck out of here.” He did this in a meeting with children present.

Jennifer Preston who was present at the meeting with her children told Fox News, “these people are placed in powerful positions to make the best decisions for our kids, and I found it to be so sad and just truly a major disappointment for all the kids and all the parents and our entire community at large.”

Preston’s daughter spoke at the meeting, calling on the board members to make masks optional for students and let them have a choice.

Another parent who was in attendance at the meeting was Paul Kelly. Kelly told Fox News, “It’s a reflection of some, not all, but some of these individuals in these positions of power who are drunk on power. They literally absolutely have to have control and compliance, and it’s very disconcerting.”

Taub is up for reelection and Kelly announced that he plans to run to unseat him. “We need people on the board that really do reflect the interests of the parents and the students,” Kelly said.

Currently, it doesn’t appear that Taub has made any attempt to apologize for his inappropriate comments.

There has been much pushback from parents as school boards seemingly made power grabs across the country. Many parents have run to unseat those who forced mask mandates on students and keep schools closed for extended periods of time over this pandemic.

It seems that many parents are sick of being told what to do when it comes to the medical safety of their children. Many parents across the country have pushed to make masks optional for many different reasons.

Some are afraid of the social ramifications of having children behind masks, others don’t see masks as effective at slowing down or stopping the spread of diseases. Parents seemingly just want to have a voice and if they don’t feel respected or heard many are moving to oust those who refuse to listen to them with respect.