Posted on 08/17/2021 12:29:12 PM PDT by truthkeeper
TUSTIN, Calif. - On the first day of school at Hughes Middle School in Tustin, a student was escorted out of a classroom for not wearing a mask per the school's policy, and some parents protested outside of the school following the school's decision.
Ezra Nelson, 12, said he was asked to put on a mask by his teacher Thursday.
"The first thing he said was you need to put a mask on and I said I prefer not to so they brought me to the front to give me a mask and I said I prefer not to. It was very emotional because it was my first day of school and I wanted to be normal but I wasn't able to," he said.
His mother, Emily Nelson, said he has a medical condition preventing him from wearing a mask.
"Ezra has a condition, a health condition that prevents him from wearing a mask. We opened a 504 plan with the school last year and he has a note from a medical expert as well, but I dropped him off today about 8:30 a.m. and by the time I got home around 8:45, I had a call from the Vice Principal letting me know Ezra was pulled out of class," she said...
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Perhaps the parents failed to update last year’s plan.
My grandson is a photojournalist and covered this story. My understanding is that it would have been very difficult for the boy to keep that mask on all day. Mom does not want to say more so I won't either.
Santa Ana CA? Ever live there?..I have...2/3 of the class will be illegals and by Joe Braindead policy’s they will not be tested for Covid-19 or there parents ask for ID to vote... but you better mask up
The whole country has become one giant running joke ...except its not funny....
What qualifies as a 504 disability?
There is no specific mention of learning disabilities in Section 504, however the law defines a person as disabled if he or she: has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such an impairment, or. is regarded as having such an impairment.
NIH Director Francis Collins Admits Masking Rules For Kids Are Based On Rare Anecdotes, Not Data!
The Federalist ^ | AUGUST 17, 2021 | Jordan Davidson
Posted on 8/17/2021, 12:25:14 PM by Hojczyk
That masking recommendations are based on anecdotes and not scientific data.
“I wish we had that data. But Hugh, I don’t think you’re hearing me. It’s not just about that,” Collins said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”
“It is still pretty rare, but it is not zero, and we now have more than 400 kids that have died of this. So we have to think about that,” Collins said. “But also, think about what’s going on in that classroom for two other reasons. Even if kids are not going to get that sick, they can certainly get infected. They don’t transmit quite as vigorously as older people, but they can transmit it. Lots of evidence of that. So if we’re trying to tamp down the spread, here’s one more place to do so.”
“We’ve got to get kids back in the classroom,” Collins continued. “This virtual learning for the last year has been really bad for their development. But if they’re unmasked in the classroom, you know what’s going to happen. There’s going to be an outbreak. That’s already happening in states that don’t require masks. And then what happens? The kids go back home again. That’s a bad outcome.”
Collins claimed the CDC “really hates to have to make recommendations based on anecdotes,” but justified its actions by saying they are “rigorous public health scientists.”
“This is a tough time. Give the guys a little bit of a break there,” Collins said. “They’re trying to manage the worst pandemic in 103 years that is moving so rapidly, and delta has blown everything up that we thought we knew about COVID-19, and we sort of have to start all over again with new data. And we’ve only really had this one for about the last, oh, month and a half.”
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If a kid has an IEP, the parents have the school by the short hairs. They may not know it, but if they do, anything done to or for the kid, including things like suspension/expulsion has to be 100% by the book
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