Southern California parents are fighting back against school COVID-19 rules, including mask mandates, quarantining and testing, filing lawsuits claiming that children are being harmed and their civil rights are being violated. Two years after the pandemic began—and after schools statewide were closed for around 18 months, California schools are still enforcing various measures to contain the virus. And a growing number of parents have had enough. Irvine Parent Tiffany Craft said she escorted her second-grade daughter to her Cypress Village Elementary school classroom on Jan. 14 unmasked in an act of civil disobedience. The move came after district spokeswoman Raianna Chavez told Craft that she and her daughter could face arrest for violating the mandate. “[E]lecting to violate the required mask mandate would mean significant legal, financial, and liability risks not to mention both civil and criminal liability/charges,” Chavez wrote to Craft in a Jan. 10 email. Since then, an …