What would u do about the mask mandate on your kids at school if strongly against it?

Ok i know some of you think masks are great. I’m not asking you whether or not you agree with me. I’m asking you how i should going about standing up for what i truly believe is best for my kids and their health. Not their protection from covid - their long term physiological and even social and psychological health.

My belief is based on several studies that were done on adults long before covid. These studies show the inspiration rate of CO2 while wearing a mask is 2000-4000 ppm depending on the mask (cotton like us ladies wear to match our outfits and n95s)
Inspiration of CO2 while NOT wearing a mask is 250ppm. Note that in a building in a closed room, CO2 levels measured above 1000 ppm are considered too high and ventilation improvements are recommended. A normal closed classroom is usually measured around 800ppm. So now we’ve got our kids at 2,000-4000 when they are masked.

You can study effects of high CO2 inspiration. I’m not going to get into that here. Just wanted to show you that masks do indeed cause more CO2 inspiration.

So, with all of that being said i don’t want my 13, 9, and 5 year old wearing masks for 7.5 hours a day 5 days a week for 9 months straight. It is my job as a mother to protect them from something logic tells me is not good for them. Something they on their own cannot protect themselves from.

They are at a catholic elementary school. We have been with this school for 14 years. (Our oldest is 19.) It really is a great school. The teachers are smart, kind, and reasonable. Of all 14 years only 2 of the teachers got on my nerves. That’s saying a lot when you consider 2 of our kids were there k-8 and one is is in 8th and the other 4th and our last starting kindergarten.

The receptionist today was upset about the Governor and the bishop’s decision. But the school as a whole is rule abiding and they are not going to rock the boat.

SO, as a parent, what should I do? I don’t want to homeschool. I will if i have to, but i think I socialization is important.

Why can’t it be the vaccinated do their thing and unvaccinated do theirs and the masked do theirs and unmasked do theirs and we all just get along? Why does it have to be vaccinated masked way or the highway?

And these masks don’t work on kids who are chewing on them, sweating on them, and touching them all day long. If anything they spread MORE germs. When it comes to children, anyone should be able to admit that.