On Wednesday, a federal district court judge in Virginia ruled in favor of 12 plaintiffs who argued that all students in their children’s schools need to be masked for the safety of their children. The ruling pertains only to the schools that these 12 immunocompromised children attend.

This ruling opens a nationwide door for plaintiffs to chip away, one school at a time, at our parental rights to make decisions for our children to breathe air freely. Judge Norman Moon’s decision is absurd for several reasons.