Statewide School Walkout In The Works Over Gov. Newsom’s Vaccine Mandate

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID investigating and vaccine mandate is starring to genitor pushback with plans for a statewide schoolhouse walkout. Organizers privation parents to propulsion their children from people connected Monday.

In a missive to parents, the superintendent of Twin Rivers Unified says its students don’t request to miss schoolhouse for parents’ voices to beryllium heard. But immoderate parents told us, this each comes down to the state to choose.

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Calls for a walkout are increasing louder.

“The vaccine mandate, I don’t deliberation should beryllium forced upon anybody,” said A.J. Fernandez, who supports the walkout.

Greg Gomez has a girl astatine Laguna Creek High School. While helium doesn’t program connected taking portion successful the walkout, helium supports parents who are.

“It’s a idiosyncratic choice,” helium said. “If you take you privation it, that’s fine, and if not, that should beryllium OK too.”

Ilina Schwartz recovered retired astir the walkout successful a Facebook group.

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“My archetypal absorption was it is wholly ridiculous,” Schwartz said.

Her girl is simply a crab subsister and believes parents tin nonstop a connection without impacting their child’s learning.

“Having children locomotion retired of schoolhouse erstwhile they desperately request to beryllium successful schoolhouse and person immoderate consciousness of normalcy, particularly successful the past 18 months, I deliberation is truthful critical,” Schwartz said. “Speak up for what you judge in, but let’s fto our kids larn and enactment our unit wherever we can.”

That sentiment was shared by the superintendent of Twin Rivers Unified, who, successful a missive to unit and parents, said:

“Please fto america proceed to amended them, successful schoolhouse and in-person…If you person beardown feelings against vaccination mandates, see sending an email oregon video connection to the governor.”

We reached retired to different schoolhouse districts. Sacramento City Unified told america students would suffer important instructional clip and a walkout benefits nary one.

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Up successful Shasta County, we learned Oak Run Elementary School has opted to adjacent the schoolhouse altogether connected October 18, truthful students, parents and unit tin instrumentality portion successful the walkout.

Adrienne Moore