As California lifted its school mask mandate and schools began to consider whether to modify their individual mask rules, one educator from Shasta County reflected on how the pandemic and school mask mandates led her to create her own education program. “I believed that I was harming students by forcing the masks on them. I witnessed one student hyperventilating in class because of his mask,” Melody Fowler, an educator and parent, told The Epoch Times. California’s statewide school indoor mask mandate lifted on March 12, allowing many students across the state to unmask while in school for the first time since the start of the pandemic two years ago. Fowler said she attended her former school district’s board meeting at the beginning of March and heard the district would lift the mask mandate on March 12 in line with the statewide policy. “Knowing in the back of my mind that …