First some source context for what follows. Back in the late 70s I lived in MV, possibly within the Whisman School District (I was single, so I didn't pay much attention to such matters). On another tack, the SF Bay Area has two ConservaTalk radio stations, a less well known Salem Communications station and KSFO, which is probably the talker with the highest ratings. I was listening to KSFO's morning drive program, which is shared with a Sacramento station. The morning drive squirrels mentioned a few things relevant to this mess:
* Neither the state of California not Santa Clara County currently require masks in public schools; the school district has imposed the madate;
* The Whisman School District school board has decided to retain and exercise the power to mandate masks, regardless of cases and deaths data.
* The 4YO in this mess has sensory problems related to, among other things, masking; the school district insists that it has to verify this - forget any medical diagnostic work the family may have done - and that during the district's verification process, the child must be masked.
At a more general level, besides being fairly distant from SF, Mountain View, in the context of Silicon Valley, is not an uber-exclusive or high-end city (Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, Palo Alto, or Los Altos Hills would fit those adjectives). IOW, the board is not doing the will of rich elitists (and maybe not doing anybody's will, except for teachers union thuglings').