S.-1 21-2181A Adoption by the Board of Education of new Board Policy 5141.29 - COVID-19 Student Vaccine Requirement and select enforcement Option 1, 2, or 3.
Students/families need to be able to choose what gets put into their bodies - this is NOT a school district decision. Period. It is not legal and it is not moral. Los Angeles Unified and other districts are getting sued for this type of mandate - are you aware of that? Many research papers clearly document outbreaks here in the US and worldwide among vaccinated people. Please do your research. Option #3 or ideally an option #4 that eliminates the mandate is the only way to go.
You know you cant mandate an EUA Vaccine right?? Yet, you will try and not because you have the best interest of our students. This is entirely political. You think you are leading the way just as Newsome thought he was by becoming the first state to set the mandate for all schools. The people who preach about acceptance, diversity and “my body my choice”, are the same people who are putting these unjust mandates in place.
Since your original vote back in September to mandate vaccines there has been an additional 3 studies on young boys and the significant negative effects around myocarditis and pericarditis. So my feelings is, that based on these overwhelming medical studies, you should NULLIFY your original vote. However if you choose to ignore REAL data, option 3 seems the most palatable in this time of complete insanity, coupled with a lack of understanding of the constitution or the
sanctity in preserving those rights. Also recognize your complicity in the whitening of our schools, as latino and black families will not have an appetite for forced, unproven and dangerous mandates by a school body who has no right to make medical decisions for their children.
School Board Members. Leave our children alone! Option 3 is the best, but there should be an option 4 “No mandate”. These options are so anti science and discriminatory it makes ones head spin. Even the student school board member (who is vaccinated) voted against this authoritative mandate. If this mandate goes into effect, Oakland schools will be primarily made up of White and Asian students. The wisest person on the Board is the student/child Board Member, but her vote doesn’t count.
Option #3
Oakland as a community has always been very diverse and has become a very inclusive city in the Bay Area, you could say one of the leading cities in this regard. Let’s continue to be leaders in this arena and not discriminate and segregate children because of how their parents choose to handle this questionable treatment when we discuss risk/reward.
Option #3 is the most reasonable choice of those offered, therefore it would be the best choice.
It is in fact well known that covid has very, very little impact on children and therefore we should treat it as such. Using vaccines that have only been minimally tested relative other vaccines on such young, still developing children may very well turn out to be a mistake.
See also: thalidomide. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/06/thalidomide-caused-up-to-10000-miscarriages-infant-deaths-uk It wasn't tested thoroughly enough. This is an opportunity to at least give parents a choice, something our country was founded upon.
Vote Option 3, maybe sanity will prevail by the time the 2022-2023 school begins. Option 2, letting all children go to school, but unvaccinated children can't play sports or go to dances makes no sense whatsoever and is just a vote to "punish" kids. These mandates will lead to a mass dismissal of our children from public schools. OUSD itself says less than 60% of the children are vaccinated. This will punish Black and Hispanic children the most, but all children will suffer. Vaccinated will watch as their peers and friends are no longer permitted in school, that will make them resentful towards the "adults".
Use Covid funds to improve infrastructure and reduce class size, Please don’t further hurt kids and families with segregationist policy. Stand up for our rights. Thank you 🙏🏽
Young children are resilient at a very low risk of dying from covid. The and the long term effects of these vaccines on their mental and physical development are not known. There is absolutely no need for them to get vaccinated.
Children have around 2 in 1,000,000 chance of dying from covid-19. This vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission and its long term effects are still largely unknown. FDA voting member: " we' re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it."
A district which touts equity and inclusivity should not be implementing policies which exclude students or penalizes them for not accepting a particular medical intervention. Keeping students out of school or out of their graduation ceremonies because they have not taken a Covid-19 biotech injection will not make our community safer. The available vaccinations do not prevent infection or transmission; they only reduce symptoms. Many research papers clearly document outbreaks here in the US and worldwide among vaccinated people. Many of the very same students you propose to exclude have already recovered from Covid and carry natural immunity, which is now recognized as greatly more robust and durable than vaccine immunity. Leave this decision to the CDPH, which carries the proper authority. Use our Covid relief funds to upgrade HVAC, repair inoperable windows, ensure soap, bath tissue, and hand dryers in every bathroom. Reduce class sizes to allow for distancing.
Option 3 is the most fair of the options as it gives parents ample time to find alternatives and keeps the requirement consistent throughout the state. When parents enrolled their children into OUSD for this school year there was no hint that this would suddenly mid-year become a requirement for in-person instruction. This pro-segregationist and discriminatory resolution will hit the black and less affluent in our community the hardest. While some of us can afford to pack up and move to another state or find an alternative private school to attend, it is especially harmful to the minorities that depend on public school for quality education. Please don't do this to our children in the middle of the school year. Let the seniors graduate with their friends and give students the opportunity to address their own needs in the following year. This medical procedure is experimental and no long term studies are available to know its effects over 5 or 10 years time.
Students/families need to be able to choose what gets put into their bodies - this is NOT a school district decision. Period. It is not legal and it is not moral. Los Angeles Unified and other districts are getting sued for this type of mandate - are you aware of that? Many research papers clearly document outbreaks here in the US and worldwide among vaccinated people. Please do your research. Option #3 or ideally an option #4 that eliminates the mandate is the only way to go.
You know you cant mandate an EUA Vaccine right?? Yet, you will try and not because you have the best interest of our students. This is entirely political. You think you are leading the way just as Newsome thought he was by becoming the first state to set the mandate for all schools. The people who preach about acceptance, diversity and “my body my choice”, are the same people who are putting these unjust mandates in place.
Option 2 will anger people on all sides, vote option 3.
Keep it simple, vote Option 3 and postpone this madness. This is tearing apart our beautiful community.
Since your original vote back in September to mandate vaccines there has been an additional 3 studies on young boys and the significant negative effects around myocarditis and pericarditis. So my feelings is, that based on these overwhelming medical studies, you should NULLIFY your original vote. However if you choose to ignore REAL data, option 3 seems the most palatable in this time of complete insanity, coupled with a lack of understanding of the constitution or the
sanctity in preserving those rights. Also recognize your complicity in the whitening of our schools, as latino and black families will not have an appetite for forced, unproven and dangerous mandates by a school body who has no right to make medical decisions for their children.
School Board Members. Leave our children alone! Option 3 is the best, but there should be an option 4 “No mandate”. These options are so anti science and discriminatory it makes ones head spin. Even the student school board member (who is vaccinated) voted against this authoritative mandate. If this mandate goes into effect, Oakland schools will be primarily made up of White and Asian students. The wisest person on the Board is the student/child Board Member, but her vote doesn’t count.
Option #3
Oakland as a community has always been very diverse and has become a very inclusive city in the Bay Area, you could say one of the leading cities in this regard. Let’s continue to be leaders in this arena and not discriminate and segregate children because of how their parents choose to handle this questionable treatment when we discuss risk/reward.
Option #3 is the most reasonable choice of those offered, therefore it would be the best choice.
It is in fact well known that covid has very, very little impact on children and therefore we should treat it as such. Using vaccines that have only been minimally tested relative other vaccines on such young, still developing children may very well turn out to be a mistake.
See also: thalidomide. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/06/thalidomide-caused-up-to-10000-miscarriages-infant-deaths-uk It wasn't tested thoroughly enough. This is an opportunity to at least give parents a choice, something our country was founded upon.
Vote Option 3, maybe sanity will prevail by the time the 2022-2023 school begins. Option 2, letting all children go to school, but unvaccinated children can't play sports or go to dances makes no sense whatsoever and is just a vote to "punish" kids. These mandates will lead to a mass dismissal of our children from public schools. OUSD itself says less than 60% of the children are vaccinated. This will punish Black and Hispanic children the most, but all children will suffer. Vaccinated will watch as their peers and friends are no longer permitted in school, that will make them resentful towards the "adults".
Use Covid funds to improve infrastructure and reduce class size, Please don’t further hurt kids and families with segregationist policy. Stand up for our rights. Thank you 🙏🏽
Young children are resilient at a very low risk of dying from covid. The and the long term effects of these vaccines on their mental and physical development are not known. There is absolutely no need for them to get vaccinated.
Children have around 2 in 1,000,000 chance of dying from covid-19. This vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission and its long term effects are still largely unknown. FDA voting member: " we' re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it."
A district which touts equity and inclusivity should not be implementing policies which exclude students or penalizes them for not accepting a particular medical intervention. Keeping students out of school or out of their graduation ceremonies because they have not taken a Covid-19 biotech injection will not make our community safer. The available vaccinations do not prevent infection or transmission; they only reduce symptoms. Many research papers clearly document outbreaks here in the US and worldwide among vaccinated people. Many of the very same students you propose to exclude have already recovered from Covid and carry natural immunity, which is now recognized as greatly more robust and durable than vaccine immunity. Leave this decision to the CDPH, which carries the proper authority. Use our Covid relief funds to upgrade HVAC, repair inoperable windows, ensure soap, bath tissue, and hand dryers in every bathroom. Reduce class sizes to allow for distancing.
Option 3 is the most fair of the options as it gives parents ample time to find alternatives and keeps the requirement consistent throughout the state. When parents enrolled their children into OUSD for this school year there was no hint that this would suddenly mid-year become a requirement for in-person instruction. This pro-segregationist and discriminatory resolution will hit the black and less affluent in our community the hardest. While some of us can afford to pack up and move to another state or find an alternative private school to attend, it is especially harmful to the minorities that depend on public school for quality education. Please don't do this to our children in the middle of the school year. Let the seniors graduate with their friends and give students the opportunity to address their own needs in the following year. This medical procedure is experimental and no long term studies are available to know its effects over 5 or 10 years time.