Can this really be happening?
"A mother from Washington State sat down with Wesley Yang last month to explain how the elementary school her daughter attended began transitioning her into a boy without the mother’s knowledge.
Jennifer, who asked to be identified by her first name only, said her daughter was only 10-years-old when she began seeing a therapist at the school and this therapist was calling her daughter by a made up name and pronouns"
https://youtu.be/e_sSZdW5glA
The Oxford Hills School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to indefinitely postpone the adoption of a controversial policy that would require school employees to keep details of students’ mental health secret from parents.
Under the proposed policy, a student experiencing gender dysphoria or gender confusion could ask a school employee to withhold that information from parents, and the school employee would be required to comply.
https://www.themainewire.com/2022/12/oxford-hills-school-board-temporarily-blocks-gender-policy/
Bankman-Fried became active in politics and aimed to become a “kingmaker” in Democratic circles by pouring millions of dollars into the 2022 midterms. He is also one of the main backers of Seattle ranked choice election manipulation scheme. Over the next few weeks federal authorities are expected to press charges against several prominent Democrats who have been involved in stealing billions from FTX investors and crypto holders.
Regulatory agencies around the world are circling the exchange and departing CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in the aftermath of a trading scandal.
Top leaders at the FTX U.S. exchange — including former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chair Mark Wetjen and Ryne Miller, a one-time adviser to SEC Chair Gary Gensler when he led the CFTC — had removed FTX from their Twitter profiles on Thursday afternoon
https://thefga.org/paper/ranked-choice-voting-a-disaster-in-disguise/
UPDATE: 11/11/22 7pm
According to the Seattletimes the NO vote lead has shrunk and is now only 1050 votes ahead. YIKES We are 8 days past the election cutoff and these goofballs are still finding YES votes. Probably special 3 am deliveries.
Seattle just refuses to stop the crime spree happening in and around Ingraham High School. Don't let your child be the next victim. Find a safer place where open drug dealing and prostitution isn't happening.
Running start is a much better option.
"The Seattle Education Association announced Tuesday that 95% of its members who voted on the measure approved a strike authorization over Labor Day weekend, after its board recommended members do so last week. According to the union, 75% of its members voted.
The authorization does not guarantee a strike will happen, but union leaders have called for one if the union and the school district cannot cut a deal. The clock is ticking; Seattle Public Schools are scheduled to begin Wednesday, which means a delay to the start of the school year should they fail to come to agreement Tuesday night.
“Our Bargaining Team continues to work at the table and we still hope to announce an agreement rather than a strike tonight,” the union told members in an email."
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/seattle-teachers-union-members-authorize-strike-teeing-up-delay-to-the-school-year/
“For the first time in my life, I’m going to be teaching at a
majority-white school, and I’m kind of interested to see how students
and parents react to my classroom, or if they even notice anything about
it, because it’s built for nonwhite students,” the teacher said in the
video.
Ben Horsley, spokesman for the Granite School District, said in a statement obtained by local station KSL
that the comments made by the teacher “are very disconcerting and she
has been placed on leave while the district investigates the matter.”
Well you should.
Triangulation, a form of manipulation, describes a person's use of threats of exclusion or manipulation. The goal is to divide and conquer. It involves the use of indirect communication, often behind someone's back.
In the list of toxic behaviors, triangulation may be the most well-known.1
But what is triangulation, exactly? Why is it such a common manipulation tactic? And how can you recognize it? Keep reading to learn more. Seattle schools want students to out their parents drug and alcohol use. use
Cleveland High School’s former principal, who says she was disciplined for alerting families of changes to COVID protocols, has resigned and reached a six-figure settlement with Seattle Public Schools.
Catherine Brown, who has worked in the district for 26 years, will receive a $205,056 settlement in exchange for not seeking damages or raising discrimination and retaliation claims against SPS, according to the settlement agreement.
During the last school year, Brown informed families the district was scaling back contact tracing
even though district officials told her not to say anything about the
changes. After a district investigation, officials decided to end her
principal contract in June.
https://thechalkboardreview.com/report-615-midwestern-teachers-reveal-why-theyre-really-leaving-the-classroom/
MIDDLEBURG, Virginia – Nestled in the rolling hills of northern Virginia sits a sprawling tree-lined campus. Classrooms inside this shuttered private school sit empty. Once-busy halls are eerily silent. Each room looks like a time capsule of better days. But not for long.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2022/may/a-once-in-100-years-moment-christian-schools-flooded-with-applications-as-controversies-plague-public-education
In the last two years, Seattle had a 6.4% enrollment drop, Berge said, almost double the state’s 3.4% decline.
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/student-enrollment-in-seattle-continues-to-drop-heres-what-it-means/
San Francisco and Santa Clara had higher case rates than Alameda County throughout the current surge, including pre-mask mandate. Once the mandate was introduced, the three counties all followed the same trend line, casting doubt on whether the mask mandate did anything to curb transmission at the community level.
https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/bay-area-mask-mandate-results-17271294.php
The DeSantis administration stood alone in the United States when it opted out of pre-ordering any COVID vaccine for Florida’s youngest residents. Publix, at least for now, will only give them to kids five and older.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday in support of a high school football coach who knelt on the 50-yard line and prayed after games, paving the way for a new landscape concerning the role of religion in public schools.
The court’s conservative majority sided with Joseph Kennedy and against the Bremerton School District in Seattle, Wash., agreeing that the coach’s First Amendment rights were violated when the district placed him on leave for violating a policy prohibiting staff from encouraging students to engage in prayer.
Kennedy celebrated the win, telling Fox News’s “The Faulkner Focus” that he “can’t stop smiling.”
It is no secret that African Americans and Hispanics are the two minority groups that have been pushing the hardest for school choice. They want a way out from being confined — condemned would not be too strong a word — to the local public school. While the Maine decision may not have direct application to them, it will surely inspire school-choice activists and lawmakers to craft new school-choice initiatives that will.
The big losers are the teachers' unions, the ACLU, and Americans
United for Separation of Church and State. Their efforts to deny equal
opportunity to blacks and Latinos took a big step backwards.
Arizona AG is requesting that AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray open an investigation into the Scottsdale Unified School District board member who had access to a dossier on parents.
In addition to Brnovich’s lawsuit, three parents have sued Greensburg and the district over a claim that the board attempted to silence them after criticizing school board decisions. The lawsuit also noted a list of parents included in a Google Drive file with personal details included.
“It contains Social Security numbers, background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, trade certifications, and screenshots of Facebook posts,” Fox News reported.
“The dossier, allegedly created by Greenburg’s father, included parents’ social security numbers, a divorce proceeding, and financial records,
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/125742_S1_M5_5351_c4591001-fa-interim-discontinued-patients.pdf
https://dailyclout.io/harmful-cytokines-from-vaccinated-mothers-passed-to-breastfed-infants/
Starbucks said Monday it will pay the travel expenses for U.S. employees to access abortion and gender-confirmation procedures if those services aren’t available within 100 miles of a worker’s home.
Why would any company need to broadcast a Pro Abortion stance?
The FBI used “threat tags” created by the bureau’s counter-terrorism division to launch dozens of investigations into parents who had protested at school board meetings, whistleblowers disclosed.
The probes targeted parents who were reported on a new Justice Department “snitch line.”
The FBI investigations included a father opposed to mask mandates and a mother deemed a threat for “owning guns” and belonging to a group called “Moms for Liberty.”
The whistleblowers work for the FBI.
“You’ve got over two dozen cases that whistleblowers came to us about, that they had concerns on,” Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, told The Washington Times. “If that isn’t designed to chill speech, I don’t know what does.”
Mr. Jordan wrote a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland accusing the FBI of opening “at least dozens” of investigations into parents and others using the counter-terrorism threat tag “in almost every region of the country and relating to all types of educational settings.”
Mr. Jordan also accused Mr. Garland of lying to Congress.
SEATTLE – A former Seattle Public Schools student was rewarded a $3 million settlement from the district stemming from a 2020 lawsuit.
The former unidentified student claimed she was sexually abused by former teacher Meghan Miller in 2016. The victim was 15 and a sophomore at Ballard High School, where Miller coached soccer and was an assistant with special needs students.
The lawsuit claimed Miller sexually abused her on a weekly basis until the victim came forward in 2018. The victim claimed Seattle Public Schools failed to protect her, despite knowing she posed a danger to children.
Attorneys claim they uncovered evidence proving SPS knew Miller was a danger. Miller was initially hired with the district in 2007 at Roosevelt High School.
Miller spent two years there and a supervisor said she displayed “a pattern of predatory behavior.” This and repeated boundary violations with students led to her firing in 2009.
However, she still ended up being hired in 2010 at Ballard High School as an assistant soccer coach. Her duties were expanded in 2015 to helping with the special education classroom.
Recap : From 2007 to 2009 Miller showed a pattern of sexual predatory behavior and was eventually fired. In 2010 SPS rehired the known sexual predator.
Who else needs to lose a job over this?
Think about it, First they lock you down and ruin your private business then they cause massive hyper inflation and while you are barely making ends meet they steal more money from you in taxes.
Over the past 2 years most government employees continued to receive full pay, benefits and retirement contributions. During that time most of these "workers" worked from home doing who knows what. 1000 of citizens complained about lack of service and a recent audit revealed only 15% of "working from home" government employees answered the phone when a tax payer called.
It's really amazing how liberals will complain about shortages in the grocery stores (mostly about the lack of wine) but they are fine with taxing people out of their hard earned money and possibly their homes.
Saturday, school board elections were held for four suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school districts. Candidates backed by a conservative parents’ organization won all 10 seats they contested and unseated at least three incumbents.
Yesterday’s elections were just a continuation of the revolt over CRT that started last year. Even though we all know it is only taught as an elective in law school and a total non-issue in school board elections, teaching children to observe racial stereotypes and judge classmates based on their skin color is deeply offensive to thinking people.
This election, like the one last year, teaches several lessons. First, if normal parents organize, they are a formidable force. Too often, we parents are too caught up in our lives to pay much attention to school board candidates. If you care about your kids and the country, pay attention.
The city clerk’s office will review the new ballot initiative to ensure it has been filed correctly. Once that has been settled, the initiative will receive a ballot title and then members of the coalition will begin collecting signatures from Seattle residents. The coalition needs almost 27,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.
If the initiative hits that, voters would get to weigh in on it this fall.
A school district in Washington state has passed a new policy that critics say encourages administrators to factor in race when disciplining students.
The Clover Park School District board approved the new policy on a 3-2 vote on March 14, over the objections of board members who expressed concerns that it was ill-conceived.
The district in the suburbs of Tacoma will now use 'culturally responsive discipline' that encourages school staff to impose disciplinary policies that 'may be adapted to individual student needs in a culturally responsive manner.'
The Clover Park School District, which is the 28th largest in the state with an enrollment of 12,022, is 35 percent Hispanic, 28 percent white, and 13 percent black, and 4 percent Asian.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10663977/Clover-Park-school-district-passes-policy-consider-race-punishing-students.html
" This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official that his city has gone into decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” he said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtime small businesses closing their doors for good or leaving our city.” But it’s not just small businesses. In mid-March, Amazon announced that it was abandoning a 312,000-square-foot office space in downtown, citing concerns over crime.
That such woes should afflict one of the richest cities in the country, with a median household income of over $100,000, cannot be blamed on economic decline. Yet much of Seattle’s core looks like a pockmarked ghost town. Businesses on both sides of Third Avenue, a major thoroughfare, are boarded up. Blocks from the Four Seasons hotel and the Fairmont Hotel, tents crowd the sidewalks, and drug users sit under awnings holding pieces of foil over lighter flames. Traffic enforcement is minimal to nonexistent. The year 2020 saw a 68% spike in homicides, the highest number in 26 years, and the year 2021 saw a 40% surge in 911 calls for shots fired and a 100% surge in drive-by shootings. Petty crime plagues every neighbourhood of the city, and downtown businesses have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their own security.
What happened to Seattle? The answer, of course, depends on your politics."
https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-fall-of-seattle/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently lowered the total COVID-19 death count by more than 72,000.
According to the agency, the government's algorithm over-counted
COVID-related deaths by 72,277 across 26 states, specifically including
24% of pediatric deaths (416).
The agency's updated overall death count due to the coronavirus stands at approximately 969,000. The change was close to 7.5%, which represents a significant difference with the total number hovering so close to one million deaths.
The large drop in the figure of pediatric deaths due to COVID-19 puts the total number at 1,341 nationwide. Children have accounted for about 19% of all COVID-19 cases, though just 0.00%-0.01% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in deaths.
To this day, the CDC's COVID death count does not establish a clear difference between individuals who died as a result of COVID-19, and those who died with COVID-19. A more specific differentiating standard between the two distinct types of death could lead to a further downward revision of the country's COVID death count.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/21/chil-m21.html
The FDA
Update 3/24/22: Pfizer has issued a recall for a high blood pressure medication distributed under three names, according to the company. You should question all their products.
The newly formed Seattle Student Union, a group of student activists that organized the rally, have been demanding stronger safety protocols since January, including district-issued high-quality masks. The group has been threatening a walkout since Gov. Jay Inslee announced plans to end mask requirements in schools, child care facilities, and most other businesses.
The student union sent the School Board and Jones a letter last week asking that mask requirements continue, or they would take action. Students from schools around the district showed up, including from Franklin, Chief Sealth International, Roosevelt, Lincoln, Nova and Center high schools.
“Every time we try to get hasty and
toss our masks off, we have another spike and another thousand people
die,” said Eridon Stewart, a 17-year-old senior at Nova High, who spoke
at the rally. Stewart said her mother has asthma, and could die if she
caught the virus. Other students also talked about the threat COVID-19
poses to family members who are immunocompromised.
Wouldn't it be nice if Seattle Public Schools (SPS) could be about education? If staff could work to improve outcomes for all students. It used to be that way. Something changed and that change started when you had individuals with no skin in the game influencing student outcomes by manipulating school board elections and curriculum choice. These individuals don't have children attending SPS and many don't even reside in Seattle. What they have in common is a petty and childish long running feud.
Seattle Public School's resident malcontent has returned to Seattle and is determined to used her scorched earth tactics on anyone and everyone who disagrees with her and her allies agenda.
She has publicly stated that she will use her influence and connections to defeat those who run for school board in the future if she doesn't approve of those candidates. Apparently she has been spreading uncorroborated information against current and past SPS employees and her self documented history of manipulating board elections speaks for itself.
On the other side you have the agenda driven far left crazies threatening to use cancel culture against current and past SPS employees, parents and anyone else that gets in their way.
These two groups and their respective allies have caused far more harm than good for SPS and both need to stop what they are doing.
The person running another Seattle school blog is apparently also a conspiracy theorist. Seriously you can't make this type of crazy up.
Here is a post made on March 13, 2022
In an effort to stop bullying students the district has dropped the mandatory requirement for teachers and students to wear face mask while attending class or or while on school grounds.
However interim superintendent Brent Jones says he “strongly encourages” students and staff keep masks on.
Jones then issued the following threat,
“While Public Health is no longer mandating masks, masking is an individual choice,” Jones said in a statement. “We won’t tolerate shaming or judging anyone in our schools for wearing a mask or not wearing a mask.”
It almost a comical statement considering the medial evidence showing mask do not stop Covid-19 or its variants and that over the past year staff and students have bullied teachers , parents and students who objected to wearing mask.
Last June, the federal Department of Education released preliminary enrollment data for the 2020-21 school year. That initial report showed a drop in public school enrollment of 3.8 percent over the previous school year of 2019-20. Since there were approximately 51.1 million children attending public schools in 2019-20, that’s an enrollment loss of nearly 2 million in just that one school year.
All states reported enrollment declines, and enrollment among the youngest students—those in preschool and kindergarten—declined the most, at 22 percent and 9 percent, respectively. The final enrollment data for 2020-21 won’t get released until later this spring, but preliminary reports for the 2021-22 academic year show a decline in public school enrollment for the second straight year.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/21/nearly-2-million-kids-left-public-schools-from-2020-to-2021/
Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms. Now some districts are finding their broader efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion are also being challenged.
As her Colorado school district’s equity director, Alexis Knox-Miller thought the work she and a volunteer team were doing was on solid ground, especially with an audit in hand that detailed where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities.
But in December, Knox-Miller reluctantly disbanded the equity leadership team after more than a year of meetings. New conservative members had won a majority on the school board after voicing doubts about the work, and she worried the efforts might not lead anywhere.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-education-race-and-ethnicity-50c02554ffb341073a1da08e336b6fe4
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz introduced an amendment on Thursday to block federal funds to schools and child care centers that enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates on students and young children.
The amendment would modify the $1.6 trillion continuing resolution (CR) to fund the Federal government through March 11, 2022, by prohibiting federal funds from being distributed to schools and child care centers that have a COVID-19 vaccine mandate related to enrollment, in-person attendance, and participation in school-sponsored activities.
Three San Francisco School Board members were removed from their positions by voters on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a tough recall campaign that pitted Democrats against Democrats as interlocking controversies over school closings and renamings fueled a well-funded backlash.
I wrote op-eds, appeared on local news shows, attended meetings with the mayor’s office, organized rallies and pleaded on social media to get the schools open. I was condemned for speaking out. This time, I was called a racist—a strange accusation given that I have two black sons—a eugenicist, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist.
In the summer of 2020, I finally got the call. “You know when you speak, you speak on behalf of the company,” our head of corporate communications told me, urging me to pipe down. I responded: “My title is not in my Twitter bio. I’m speaking as a public school mom of four kids.”
But the calls kept coming. From legal. From HR. From a board member. And finally, from my boss, the CEO of the company. I explained why I felt so strongly about the issue, citing data on the safety of schools and the harms caused by virtual learning. While they didn’t try to muzzle me outright, I was told repeatedly to “think about what I was saying.”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand-president
With high immunity rates and our ability to carry out rapid antigen tests with nearly every school district participating in our state’s COVID-19 testing program, the time is now to rebalance the health and educational benefits of masking in our schools.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAOSPI/bulletins/309eab7
Last week, school parents in Loudoun County started to receive letters
warning that there will be consequences for not continuing to follow the
mandatory masking policies
"Under Virginia law, parents, not the government, have the fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care of their children,” Youngkin’s order read, adding later that “parents should have the ability to decide whether their child should wear masks for the duration of the school day. This approach is consistent with the broad rights of parents.”
“Given under my hand and under the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia this 15th day of January, 2022.”
Additionally, lawsuits have started to pile up, accusing Youngkin and his administration of putting children with disabilities in danger.
“The ACLU of Virginia, one of several groups representing the parents, said in a statement Tuesday that the children involved have conditions including cancer, cystic fibrosis, moderate-to-severe asthma, Down syndrome, lung conditions and weakened immune systems,” WTOP News reported.
But on the other side of the argument, some children have conditions that are exacerbated by wearing a mask. Take for example Abbie Platt, who has three children in the Loudoun County school system
https://thedrilldown.com/newsroom/no-mask-no-class-loudoun-county-ignores-executive-order-threatening-suspensions/
Parents in the North Penn School District expressed outrage after a photo emerged showing a teacher forcibly taping a mask to a child’s face.
The school district confirmed that the incident happened after the photo went viral.
“Pro-mask or anti-mask, I hope we can all agree that taping masks to children’s faces crosses the LINE,” said a Facebook post by North Penn Stronger Together. “This was not a joke for the child or the parents.”
The photo “taken in one of our classrooms last week and circulating on social media does not represent the universal values that the North Penn School District strives to instill in both our students and staff,” says the statement.
“After an immediate investigation, it was determined that while the incident was isolated and no malice was intended, the actions of the teacher were entirely inappropriate and unacceptable, no matter the context,” the statement read. “We understand that the act of taping a mask to a student’s face is concerning to many and apologize that it occurred.”
Parents are demanding that the district take immediate disciplinary action against the teacher.
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
