[Cboldt]

There is usally a pretty clear chain of command in the state, and scope of authority for each layer in the public education system.

Even the teacher is king, but only for certain matters.

The close you get to your goal (you say your son is close to graduation), the more leverage your opponent has. It’s more difficult to throw it all away when you are >< this close.

The vax mandate thing is a weird matrix. Totally depends on where you live, and even within a state can depend on where you live. For workers, can totally depends on your employer. Neighbors held to opposite requirements.

[Ancesthntr]

“The close you get to your goal (you say your son is close to graduation), the more leverage your opponent has. It’s more difficult to throw it all away when you are >< this close.”

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Yes, but being very close in time to a goal, time can also be on your side. Graduation for current seniors is in May or June (depending on state and district), and if any school district is requiring the vax for students to continue in school and/or to graduate, there can be a solid threat issued by 100 or more sets of parents that they will start a class-action lawsuit against BOTH the Board AND the individual members of the Board (the latter on the basis of the violation of the kids’ civil rights under color of law - 42 US Section 1983); they’ll be able to get a TRO very easily, and likely get the whole vax mandate thing (even if the district ultimately wins) pushed back far enough that the current seniors will be able to graduate.

If I were TeddyRay, I’d be getting a petition together to be signed by as many parents in his/her child’s school district regarding a class action lawsuit as possible. That, and simultaneously beginning the process of getting rid of the current Board members who are in favor of the mandate - either through a recall (if available) or by getting a well-spoken parent to be a candidate to oppose those Board members. This is still a representative republic that operates on democratic principles - TPTB can only run roughshod over the people for as long as the people permit it. Now people have woken up to the abuses of power and the arrogance of our “leaders” on all levels - from the local school board to governors and even a President and his administration - so this should end if people actually give a damn about how their country is to be operated and what kind of a future that their children and grandchildren will have.

Fight the bastards, in every way possible and on every level possible. We who are conservative or sanely middle-of-the-road outnumber the insane Leftists by at least 2-1, and it is only because they have been loud and organized that they have succeeded as much as they have over the last couple of generations. If We get loud and organized, they don’t stand a chance. This kind of awakening is exactly what Donald Trump hoped to spark...and despite him not being in the WH this term (I refuse to say that he lost, because he didn’t, it was stolen from him), I think that he actually succeede in this regard.