Letter: Keep your children and teachers safe – please mask up

I am daily aghast at the letters to The Public Forum, and journalistic reports, of parents protesting against their children being asked to wear small face masks to attend school, or at all, as an infringement of their rights of freedom of choice.I grew up in the United Kingdom and started school at five years old during the latter years of World War II. For over a year of that schooling we were required to have our bulky gas masks with us at all times, stored close to our desks during class and