L.A. School District Will Mandate Vaccines for Students

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Here you have it..500,000 students effected, ages 12 and up. Mandatory...no foolin' get the stick..or hit the bricks.


Los Angeles is the first major school district in the United States to mandate coronavirus vaccines for students 12 and older who are attending class in person.
With the Delta variant ripping across the country, the district’s Board of Education voted, 6-0, to pass the measure on Thursday afternoon. The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest in the nation, and the mandate would eventually apply to more than 460,000 students, including some enrolled at independent charter schools located in district buildings.
The interim superintendent, Megan Reilly, said at Thursday’s board meeting that student vaccination was one way to ensure that the district’s classrooms would be able to remain open. Los Angeles had some of the country’s most extended school closures last year.
Los Angeles already has a strict vaccine mandate for teachers and staff members, and the new student mandate will further increase the safety of the classroom. But it is also likely to be more divisive, with far-reaching educational repercussions.
According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, 58 percent of 12- to 18-year-olds living within the district’s boundaries have already received at least one dose of a vaccine. But polls show that many parents are hesitant to vaccinate their children against the coronavirus, raising the question of how many families will keep their children home to learn online or transfer them to schools that do not require the shots.
Leaving the classroom again could be debilitating for some students. When virtual learning was widespread last academic year, millions of children fell behind academically; the impact was largest on low-income students and students of color. The Los Angeles Unified student body is 73 percent Latino, 11 percent white, 8 percent Black and 4 percent Asian. Eighty percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
Vaccine hesitancy in Los Angeles exists across a broad range of demographic and ideological groups, from affluent, largely white, liberal parents who oppose a range of mainstream childhood vaccination practices; to conservative activists who have specifically targeted the coronavirus vaccines; to low-income Black and Hispanic families who are wary of the medical establishment.
 
LAUSD is majority minority. They will welcome the vaccine prohibition. They avoid school as much as possible. Now they have a good excuse.
 
LAUSD is majority minority. They will welcome the vaccine prohibition. They avoid school as much as possible. Now they have a good excuse.
Well...one way to reduce class sizes, I suppose.
Given that 80% of the student eat breakfast and lunch at school.....and that parents need a break...I doubt that many will opt out.
 
Well...one way to reduce class sizes, I suppose.
Given that 80% of the student eat breakfast and lunch at school.....and that parents need a break...I doubt that many will opt out.
You don't know Los Angeles very well. The students can come for meals whether they attend classes or not. Children's food cannot be contingent on attending classes. The parents need a break. You really said that. The parents are on permanent break. They don't care.
 
You don't know Los Angeles very well. The students can come for meals whether they attend classes or not. Children's food cannot be contingent on attending classes. The parents need a break. You really said that. The parents are on permanent break. They don't care.
Actually they have to be students, to qualify for the student lunch (meal) program. This prevents just anybody, like a homeless 20 year old, showing up at the local school for lunch.
 
Actually they have to be students, to qualify for the student lunch (meal) program. This prevents just anybody, like a homeless 20 year old, showing up at the local school for lunch.
Ohhh they are students. They show up, eat, visit with the homeies and leave.
 
Post #2.
You brought Private Schools into the convo.
Did you?
Yes you did by saying .......


Neither Home school or Charter Schools have any Rich Opportunities.
Unless you are claiming HS or CS are for Profit.
Yeah in regards to the topic and their opportunity to grow.......again you're off topic
 
What Universe do you live in?
LAUSD universe. What do you think it's like? Do you really think public school parents will trot Jamal and Rosita down to the clinic to get a shot? There would be an immediate theft of syringes.
 
Ohhh they are students. They show up, eat, visit with the homeies and leave.
Maybe you don't remember school, but do you remember them taking attendance? It wasn't just for fun, it was part of a legal requirement to actually have an accurate account of the number of students in attendance on any day, for the purpose of local, state and federal school funding, which would include mean programs.
A "student" can't just show up for breakfast or lunch without attending class, because without attending class, there is no funding to reimburse the school for costs.
 
Does attendance affect public school funding?

The bottom line. Your school loses money when your child is absent.
 
Maybe you don't remember school, but do you remember them taking attendance? It wasn't just for fun, it was part of a legal requirement to actually have an accurate account of the number of students in attendance on any day, for the purpose of local, state and federal school funding, which would include mean programs.
A "student" can't just show up for breakfast or lunch without attending class, because without attending class, there is no funding to reimburse the school for costs.
They do it all the time. The reality of Los Angeles public schools is that they are little more than centers for the incorrigible. That's why there is no attendance or grade requirement for graduation. Such a useless law would have better luck in Santa Monica where it is still civilized. The people are mostly woke anyway.
 
Ohhh they are students. They show up, eat, visit with the homeies and leave.

For System Leaders: Because a lot of school funding in California is based on “average daily attendance” (ADA), not enrollment, a school loses approximately $85 per day for every student absent.
 

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