N.Y. judge strikes down state mask mandate, ruling Gov. Hochul overstepped her authority
Judge Thomas Rademaker of New York State Supreme Court on Long Island
struck down the mandate, ruling the governor had overstepped her
authority in imposing a rule that needed to have been passed by the
state Legislature.
Teacher Lori Caldeira, pictured, has been accused of manipulating an 11 year-old girl into believing she was a transgender boy
Jessica Konen, with her attorney and CEO of The Center for
American Liberty, Harmeet K. Dhillon filed a legal claim against
Spreckels Union School District last Wednesday, alleging that two Buena
Vista Middle School teachers 'planted a seed' in her daughter's head
that she was bisexual, then tried to convince her that she was a
transgender boy
A California mother is taking legal action against a school district, claiming that two teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into believing she was a transgender boy.
Jessica Konen filed a legal claim against Spreckels Union School District last Wednesday - with that claim a likely precursor to a lawsuit. She alleges that Buena Vista Middle School teachers Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki 'planted a seed' in her daughter's head that she was bisexual, then went on to convince the youngster that she was actually a transgender boy.
Konen
also claims that Caldeira and Baraki - who ran the school's 'You Be
You' equality club - provided information for her daughter on how to
bind her breasts to stop them developing. She says the school kept her
in the dark about what was going on until a December 2019 meeting.
In response to the post and parents' reactions, the school district sent a letter to parents.
"Dear Spreckels Union School District (SUSD) Community:
"SUSD staff, administration and our Board of Education are committed to supporting safe, inclusive and equitable learning environments that support all students without including, sharing or promoting any political opinion or agenda.
"Recently, an article was written that quoted two Buena Vista Middle School teachers who presented during a California Teachers’ Association (CTA) conference in Palm Springs. The teachers were using personal leave to lead a breakout session in their roles as CTA members; they were not officially presenting on behalf of SUSD, nor were their presentation materials or comments reviewed by SUSD administration. Many of the comments and themes stated in the article are alarming, concerning, disappointing and do not in any way reflect the District or the Board of Education’s policies and practices.
"The District has taken immediate steps to address several of the concerns raised in the article:
•" The student club mentioned in the article, UBU (You be You), has been suspended.
Just when you thought officials couldn't be more subjective there is this.
The pandemic that has convulsed the world for more than two years is entering a “new phase” globally and the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus could help set the stage for a return to normalcy in the months ahead, according to a top health official in Europe.
Dr. Hans Kluge, director for the World Health
Organization’s European region, warned that it was too early for nations
to drop their guard, with so many people unvaccinated around the world.
But, he said, between vaccination and natural immunity through
infection, “omicron offers plausible hope for stabilization and
normalization.”
The U.S. Attorney General is threatening to treat concerned school patrons like domestic terrorists, but parents say they aren’t backing down.
For more than a year, concerned parents across the state have rallied at board meetings, speaking on behalf of their children. Their concerns range from student mask mandates, canceled extracurricular activities, and critical race theory seeping into classrooms. Parents say they are loud and forceful, but not violent or threatening.
“The FBI should not be using the FBI against parents. If someone gets offended, they could almost call that breaking the law. It’s just so open-ended,” she said.
Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, called the FBI memo a war on parents. He and 10 other Senators penned a letter to Garland seeking clarification on the memo.
“We believe parents have the right to voice their concerns, opinions, and frustrations to public servants,” the letter reads. “It is not the job of the federal government to institute a witch hunt against parents effectively penalizing them by investigating dissent.”
The district has procured hundreds of thousands of masks to distribute as a temporary response to this variant’s recent surge. On Tuesday, January 17, SPS will begin distributing higher-grade masks, including a combination of KN95 and N95 masks to all staff. Staff who require them have always had access and will continue to do so. The district has also requested half a million KN95 and KN94 masks for students.
Since the beginning of the school year, SPS has implemented and followed public health guidance to protect students and staff using layers of COVID-19 risk mitigation, including:
Those institutions forcing any type of medical treatment should also be held accountable for any and all adverse reactions caused by that medical treatment. Giving 5 year old children mask and expecting those children to keep a mask properly worn is a failure to protect the child from the danger of infection. Virtue signally using N95 mask needs to stop.
No U.S institution has been affected more by current events than the K-12 education system. The COVID pandemic wreaked havoc on the mechanics of delivering education, while the social justice movement sparked a debate over what should be taught in the classroom. The convergence of these two issues turned traditionally mundane school board meetings into a platform for frustrated parents and often pitted these parents against administrators and teachers
Johnson and Health Secretary Sajid Javid both suggested that the government is planning for a post-pandemic period when it can treat COVID-19 more like the flu.
Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events
The government is no longer advising people to work from home, and compulsory face masks will be scrapped in secondary school classrooms starting Thursday.
Mandatory COVID-19 passes will not be needed to gain entry to large-scale events beginning Jan. 27. Face masks will no longer be legally required anywhere in England as of that day
Update:
The White House would not say if it would lift its airport mask requirement as the United Kingdom government announced it would be ditching its mask mandates.Florida lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow schools districts to put cameras in classrooms and microphones on teachers.
The measure was proposed by state Representative Bob Rommel, a Republican from Naples.
"I think if we can do it in a safe way to protect the privacy of students and teachers, I think we should do it," he told CBS Miami. "I haven't heard a response good or bad from any teachers, but … it's not their private space. It's our children's space, too."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-would-allow-cameras-in-classrooms-and-microphones-on-teachers/
CA school district teaches lessons to high school students they are the beneficiaries of privilege if they are Christian, male, or straight.
“If you can use public bathrooms without stares, fear, or anxiety, you have cisgender privilege,” one graphic reads
The Desert Sands Unified School District in La Quinta, which is in Riverside County, said it was taking “corrective” measures after the lessons came to light.
"The lesson was not in alignment with the district-adopted curriculum” and “actions are being taken to rectify the situation," the district told the Daily Signal in a statement, adding that "the teacher was operating outside the scope of [the] adopted curriculum and had potentially presented a biased position. Corrective action is underway.”
A close look at CRT Lessons in CA schools
For 2022 I thought it would be interesting to see where some of the past school board members are at with their careers/lives after serving.
In no particular order each week I will add whatever info the great and powerful Google gives me .
Jill Geary - 2015-2020 From the WTF box
Last-minute closures in Seattle Public Schools this week have prompted students to organize a sickout, threaten a strike, demand improved safety protocols and call for more transparency from the state’s largest school district.
They’re not alone. Parents and teachers alike say the district failed to anticipate the need to shift to remote learning as a predictable wave of coronavirus cases caused school cancellations around the region.
During this second week back from winter break, classes were canceled because of coronavirus-related staffing shortages and because there weren’t enough substitutes to meet the demand, a trend that has plagued school districts across the country.
Seattle students say they’ve decided to join a national, student-led movement calling for remote learning and stronger school safety standards as COVID-19 cases are spiking.
The Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's vaccine or testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide.
The proposed revision to the COVID protocol under the Communicable and Certain Other Diseases Act, called WAC 246-100-040, would grant local health officers at “his other sole discretion” to “issue an emergency detention order causing a person or group of persons to be immediately detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine.” Additionally, the measure would allow law enforcement to assist public health officials in detaining residents who refused the COVID injection.
The “emergency detention order” would allow individuals to be detained “for a period not to exceed ten days.” This alarming measure comes in tandem with Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) effort to hire “strike teams” to run quarantine camps, outlined in the state’s governmentjobs.com website, a term that has since been scrubbed from the website sometime after the bulletin was posted in September 2021. Notably, WAC 246-100-040 was certified on October 25, 2019, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020. Inslee further warned unvaccinated residents on Wednesday that he will soon impose even more harsh COVID restrictions to address the 146% spike in COVID cases despite 68% of Washington’s residents being “fully vaccinated"
The Washington State Board of Health will hold a virtual public meeting on January 12 to discuss the implementation of W 246-100-040.
Washington State Physician Assistant Scott Miller told The Gateway Pundit that “They have already set up the internment camps. I’ve seen photographs of them.”
Update....You can't make this stuff up
Jan. 13, 2022 at 2:39 pm
