Mom furious after teen has 'panic attack,' removes mask and is dismissed from gym
CBC
A Windsor, Ont., mother is angry after she says her teenage daughter, who has activity-induced asthma, was removed from her school's fitness course for not wearing her mask over her nose while working out.
Jacqueline Mitchell's 16-year-old is in Grade 12 at Vincent Massey Secondary School. She received a frantic phone call from her daughter last week immediately after the alleged incident.
"I answered the phone and she couldn't breathe. She was in a full-blown panic attack," said Mitchell, who doesn't want to identify her daughter by name. "I think it was more she couldn't breathe, so she was pulling her mask down for air."
Afterwards, Mitchell said, she spoke with both the principal and vice-principal to discuss what happened.
"I was very angry. The vice-principal let me know that he found her in the hallway and he could tell she was unable to breathe," Mitchell said.
That phone call with the vice-principal ended with Mitchell being told about the rules of mask wearing for students, she said.
"The teacher did not care. She just kicked her out of class."