Posted on 08/26/2022 8:07:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had an important announcement to make yesterday regarding the impending start of the new school year. Despite the fact that most parts of the country are easing off on various pandemic restrictions that were in place over the past two and a half years, the District of Columbia will require all students age 12 and over to show proof of vaccination in order to attend classes. But the rules being imposed contain several bizarre caveats, along with a glaring omission in whatever planning went into this decision. The omission comes in the form of a fact that Bowser admitted to when questioned by reporters. The District no longer has any system in place to provide remote schooling for unvaccinated students. So unvaccinated children will effectively have no access to the public education system and will essentialy be left behind unless their parents can afford private schools or are capable of homeschooling them. And who will be most impacted by this rule? The Mayor is already being reminded that nearly half of the city’s Black students are unvaccinated. (Daily Signal)
The District of Columbia does not appear to have a contingency plan for unvaccinated students, who are banned from attending schools in person this fall after the first twenty days, according to comments made by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Thursday.
During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.
Over 40% of blacks ages 12-17 are not vaccinated, according to city data.
Further demonstrating the pointlessness of this mandate is the provision in the rules that allows twenty days from the beginning of classes for students to submit their vaccination passports. So even if the Mayor believes that unvaccinated children are some sort of danger to everyone else, they will be allowed to roam the halls and interact with the rest of the children for the better part of three weeks before being ejected from the public education system.
As most of the country has slowly and grudgingly admitted, children are the least likely to contract or transmit the COVID virus and the least likely to experience severe medical outcomes if they do. Most schools in America have done away with the six-foot spacing rules for desks in schools and the mask mandates have largely disappeared as well. But for some strange reason, the District of Columbia is going to boot nearly half of the Black student body above age 12 out, possibly ending their primary education in the process.
As we should all know by now, the media is addicted to the phrase “disproportionately impacting underserved communities.” That’s liberal code-speak for “minority communities.” No matter what the policy or condition is, this is the excuse that’s used for labeling anything and everything “racist.” So a policy such as the one Bowser is implementing is clearly racist, right?
Honestly, even in a world where we’ve become used to schools doing stupid or even dangerous things all over the United States, how did a policy such as this ever see the light of day? It’s not as if this is something brand new and everyone is still struggling to figure out the details. We began shutting down the schools (with disastrous results) as soon as the pandemic hit. Everyone had to rush to figure out how to set up distance learning, including the District of Columbia. What happened to that system in D.C. and how did nobody think to ensure that it would still be available this semester when talks of a vaccine mandate for the fall were brought up?
This goes far beyond simple incompetence. This is an assault on the fundamental rights of both students and parents, and one that will further damage the current generation. Bowser needs to either cancel this mandate (preferably) or get a remote learning plan in place immediately. If not, she should be removed from office by the voters as quickly as possible. This is simply inexcusable.
She and Hochul never miss a chance to make the utterly wrong decision on everything.
Hurting little kids in school with dangerous jabs? A chance to flex her political power muscles like a weighlifter. Sick.
RE: Now would be the time for some retired teachers to set up microschools and give these kids a real education, and dare the idiot mayor to intervene
Supposed the retired teachers DID establish these microschools, what constitutional right does the mayor have to intervene?
[[DC Mayor: No school for unvaccinated students]]
Parents of unvaccinated kids to DC mayor “No school taxes for you then!”
Does that go for illegal aliens too? Just asking for a friend.
A great number of our schools are no longer fit to really educate students in an intelligent manner anymore. Let the system collapse...and later, after good people are in charge, rebuild from the bottom up.
May our wonderful God help us!
The UK is now paying those who have been left with physical damage from accepting those mRNA shots. $140,000 is what is offered at present. Other countries are leaning in the same direction. Well-done studies have proven how dangerous the shots are....except in the USA. Why is that?
Most sadly, there are groups of GOOD physicians who know how to treat such patients, often (depending on the variables) with good success.
People should also be aware that they are working to include that mRNA in the fall flu shots as well. WHY, especially after it has been proven to be so dangerous? After all, it surely did not protect the people who got the shots.
Public schools are criminal gangs run by democrat party operatives.
Around 106 million Americans are still purebloods The largest group are Muslims the next largest group of blacks because they saw Bill Gates measles vaccine kill hundreds of thousands recently third largest group is Hispanic and the fourth largest group of the highly educated
(will require all students age 12 and over to show proof of vaccination in order to attend classes)
Papers, please
You first.
Bowser is a cur...
never teach the slave to read...he may lean to think
Exactly. We are on what BA.5 Or something like that and probably close to 100 Preceding variance that have popped up, yet you’re still bothering people get a vaccine for the original variant that was first discovered back in like February 2020 or so. Even back then, how well the vaccine worked and Covid is unknown and they never did proper testing and just vaccinated the entire group cleaned it work.
Those refused don’t pay school taxes
Kind of hard to make DC much dumber than it is. Good news is that’s fewer kids being brainwashed into liberalism or changing genders.
They will argue that other vaccines are required to attend school and this is just one more.
Biggest difference I see is most vaccines actually work against the disease they were designed to fight.
This has nothing to do with Covid. It never has, since February 2020. Still all about power and control.
She hates black people and is denying them the opportunity to go to school.
“Now would be the time for some retired teachers to set up microschools and give these kids a real education,”
I wonder how that would work. On RAV, someone familiar with Bowser’s laws/rules said this also applies to private schools. I guess if the microschools / pods were underground it would work.
It’s a shame we have to even use the word, “underground” in America. Today schools, tomorrow churches.
“what constitutional right does the mayor have to intervene?”
It’s always funny when FReepers try to use the Constitution in regard to what RATs do. THEY DON’T CARE about the Constitution. They violate it often every day.
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