COSTA MESA, Calif.—About 350 parents and children gathered in front of the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) May 17 to protest schools mandating students to wear masks in classrooms. Kids bustled and played, splashing in puddles, while their parents held signs saying “Unmask our children,” and “just say no to masks.” One child could held a cardboard sign that read “I want to breathe.” Mother of two Maren Chen—who has one child in preschool and the other in kindergarten—said her son hates wearing face coverings and treats it like a joke. “He’s a really loud and outgoing kid. So, he just kind of looks at it as fun and silly and uses them as a slingshot,” Chen told The Epoch Times. “Then for me, as a parent, I have to send him with three to four masks a day, because they’re coming home wet and soaked and gross. I don’t want him wearing these things that are setting him …