Sacramento Parents Questioning Homecoming Vaccine Requirements

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Parents successful Sacramento are upset aft an email was sent retired astir vaccine requirements astatine their children’s homecoming dance.

Parents astatine Rio Americano High School accidental students volition person to abide by vaccine protocols that aren’t enforced during regular schoolhouse hours.

Rio Americano students are conscionable days distant from their large dance.

“This is the archetypal creation they’re going to person since schoolhouse started,” said Latsamy Cesar, whose girl is simply a freshman and already has her formal picked out.

“She’s wearing a achromatic agelong mermaid dress,” said Latsamy.

An breathtaking time, the Cesars say, was tarnished aft the schoolhouse sent retired the rules for homecoming.

“I was truly upset. I got an email,” said Latsamy.

To get into homecoming, students volition person to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon nutrient a antagonistic COVID test, a protocol San Juan Unified School District confirms to CBS13 is not successful spot during regular schoolhouse activities.

“They’re successful schoolhouse 5 days a week from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and they’re wrong a building. Now the creation is going to beryllium outside,” said Latsamy.

Masks volition besides beryllium required astatine the dance, dissimilar outdoor schoolhouse activities wherever they’re lone encouraged.

“There’s much radical astatine the shot crippled than immoderate dance,” said Latsamy.

So wherefore are determination much strict rules successful spot for homecoming? We’re getting answers.

The San Juan Unified schoolhouse territory tells CBS13 they’re pursuing the Sacramento County Public Health requirements for schoolhouse dances. A territory spokesperson issued a connection that reads, successful part:

“Homecoming and different dances promote close, face-to-face interaction betwixt individuals…we person implemented information guidelines for high/close interaction events to assistance mitigate the dispersed of COVID-19.”

“It’s amended to beryllium harmless erstwhile everyone is going to beryllium adjacent together,” said Rio Americano elder Oliver Kringle.

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The Sacramento region nationalist wellness website besides explains it’s hard to interaction hint aft ample events similar schoolhouse dances, making COVID-19 transmission that overmuch much likely.