A recently formed advocacy group is holding a rally to protest potential mask and vaccine requirements in local schools, but education officials say those guidelines are mandated by the state.
On July 16, Moms for Liberty SLO County plans to host a rally at the SLO County Public Health Department from 9 to 10:30 a.m., where they’ll voice support for “mask and vaccine choice” in local schools during the upcoming school year.
Moms for Liberty, according to its website, is a national organization that was founded by several moms in Florida in an attempt to prevent what it calls “government overreach and intimidation tactics” in schools. In March, a few moms launched a SLO County chapter of Moms for Liberty to push for the full reopening of schools without masks, physical distancing, and vaccine requirements. Its Facebook group now has more than 800 members.
“We’re just not willing to mask up our kids,” Moms for Liberty member and SLO County resident Jenifer Narragon said.
Narragon recently joined Moms for Liberty, but she said she has long worried about the potential for COVID-19 safety regulations in schools to do further damage to her two high school students, who she said already struggled emotionally after a year of isolation and distance learning. She doesn’t plan to get her kids vaccinated, and Narragon said she worries her children will be treated differently or have to adhere to different rules than students who are vaccinated.
“At the end of the day, I feel like as parents we should have a choice with all of this,” Narragon said.
But James Brescia, superintendent of the SLO County Office of Education, said all public, private, and parochial schools will be required to follow state guidelines when it comes to COVID-19 safety.
On July 12, the California Department of Public Health released guidance outlining the strategies local schools will use to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the upcoming 2021-22 school year.
While physical distancing will no longer be required in California’s K-12 schools, students will still have to wear masks while indoors next fall, according to the guidance. Adults will be required to wear masks only when sharing indoor spaces with students, and schools will also be required to develop and implement protocols to enforce mask requirements.
While the guidance does not say whether students and teachers will be required to get vaccinated to attend schools, it does outline differing quarantine processes for those who are vaccinated and unvaccinated.
“This guidance is a public health directive that applies to all public and private schools operating in California,” Brescia wrote in a message to New Times. “Under operative executive orders and provisions of the California Health and Safety Code, schools must comply with orders and guidance issue by the California Department of Public Health and relevant four local health departments to limit the spread of COVID-19 and protect public health.”
This article appears in Jul 15-22, 2021.
Haven’t our dedicated and unappreciated health care workers endured enough?
What’s next? Should we be expecting these anti-government, anti-mask extremists to insist their children should have the freedom not to have to wear clothes at school? Or cough in the face of their fellow students and not wash their hands?
We are in the midst of a pandemic of unprecedented proportions. Is it really too much to ask that children act responsibly and wear a mask so as not to spread the virus to their fellow students and to their teachers?
It seems to me that the main thing these anti-mask extremists want to teach their children is selfishness and disregard for the well-being of others in the community.
I am a huge proponent of Communism in schools. Let’s keep the masks going since children are very low risk. I can’t wait to be China. I wake up and dream of the day…
Communism, in my opinion, is when you have to cover your contagious mouth in public.
History books will soon be teaching our kids of the days when children were granted the opportunity to breath oxygen and have a childhood.
Children have virtually a ZERO% chance of catching or having ANY serious side effects from covid19, so why would you want to put an untested drug into children who are not even susceptible to CV? IT MAKES NO SENSE AND COULD BE DANGEROUS TO THEIR HEALTH.
The last I read, there was not ONE documented case of a student passing on CV to a teacher. If teachers are worried, then they have the option of wearing a mask. Many children already have been exposed to CV19 and have natural antibodies and taking a vaccine can do more harm than good.
This is all about politics and control. “The risk benefit ratio for the vaccine appears to be getting worse weekly world wide. They are seeing vaccine failure on a large scale in Israel, Scotland and the UK. The mRNA vaccines are causing myocarditis as the pandemic is winding down in general and there is no need to take to be taking vaccines.”
It is time for the county superintendent of schools to push back against the State and just say no for the benefit of our kids.
Whats wrong with asking children to wear masks for the safety of others? Please dont tell me again that its a communist plot. I dont believe that.
Hi everyone, I’m Jen, the mom quoted in the article. What was left out of the article was one of my reasonings behind demanding freedom for our children from wearing the mask. I shared with Kasey that in May, my daughter became ill. After almost a week her conditioned worsened and we took her to urgent care. Sending my kids to school wearing the mask for hours on end was already something that pained me as a mom, when my daughter became ill, it was even more upsetting. Turns out at urgent care when my husband took her in, the dr. Said she tested positive for strep. He also shared that he’d seen an unusually high case of strep in kids this year. The following week after her diagnosis, she slept for a solid week, had no energy, and felt awful. It was incredibly worrying.
I told Kasey about a group of parents in Florida who sent their kid’s masks in for lab testing to receive unbelievable results. Please read the article here:
https://www.tneagleforum.org/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=66724
Once I found out about the lab results from the masks I became infuriated and called to move into serious action. Finding Moms For Liberty has been a saving grace.
Many of us are gathering tomorrow at the health department to voice our concerns over the mask requirements and potential vaccine requirements. After the rally, we will gather to plan our alternative schooling plan because we believe a mass exodus from the public school system will have to be the next step to avoid a lot of the garbage policies our state is mandating.
We’ve been called right wing extremist, anti mask, ant vaxers without merit. We are a bi partisan group with moms that land on all sides of the political and healthcare spectrum. If there’s anything extreme about us it’s that we’re extreme parents who will do anything to protect the safety of ALL of our children and the choice to make our very own and very personal health care choices.
Our organization is growing like wildfire and we will do what it takes to rise up to our tyrannical leadership in service of preserving our constitutional freedoms. #dontmesswithamammabear
Our county school superintendent, Mr. Brescia, needs to follow the science and petition the CDPH to do the same, on behalf of the health of our kids, as masking kids is proven to not only be dangerous to their health, per the very reputable JAMA Pediatrics, but it is unnecessary to begin with as there is an insignificant transmission rate from children to adults.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743
You’re following the science of retracted, pre-printed, non-peer-reviewed studies.
If I didn’t want to be called a right wing ant-vax extremist I would simply get vaccinated.
The virus is 100 times smaller than bacteria. The mask do not “filter out” anything. They make things worse.
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/files/stanford-mask-study/
You may not like the website, the study was done at Stanford. Many many other studies have been done over the years proving that masks are worse than worthless.
The study was not done at Stanford. It was done by one guy:
The school released a statement saying that Vainshelboim has not had any affiliation with the Palo Alto VA Hospital or Stanford since 2016, when he was a visiting scholar for a year “on matters unrelated to this paper.”
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/04/22/s…
Please, just stop posting nonsense so the rest of us can get back to doing more productive things than calling out your misinformation.
If masks dont help, why are they being recommended by public health experts?
Public health experts like fauci..you moran!