After Governor Gavin Newsom lifted his hand on February 15 to ease the indoor mask mandates for unvaccinated individuals—but not for the schools, students and parents continued to hammer him on this selective easing and his continued insistence on maintaining his emergency powers, which allow him to keep these COVID mandates in place.
Hair Gel claimed he would revisit the student mask mandates on March 11, but certain California county school districts had had enough of his Hairfulness’ version of selective science. They independently reviewed the actual science, and their insurance carrier’s policies, and proceeded to bypass Newsom to institute their own mask-optional policies before March 11.
Newsom lifted his hands again, and decided that school mask mandates would be ended after March 11, after all. This is amazing.
Monday, March 14 was the first day of students’ freedom from masks since July of 2021.
Monday’s end of the state mandate to remove masks was a significant turning point in school districts. Many of these have been under siege by protesters on campus and at school board meetings. Schools and counties now have the power to determine whether or not to allow students to wear masks. Districts were eager to retire the mandate.
But because Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers unions like to be “EXTRA,” they decided that while they would align with allowing students to take off their masks outdoors, they would still keep the student mask mandate in place.
Alberto M. Carvalho is the new Superintendent at Los Angeles Unified Schools Distirct. He just returned from Florida and is eager to establish himself in this position.
Los Angeles Unified School district announced Friday that they will no longer enforce the mandatory mask requirement for staff and students starting next week.
The second-largest school district in the country, with over 600,000 students and 30,000 teachers, said masks will now only be “strongly recommended” indoors.
The new policy still needs to be formally ratified by union groups, but is expected to go into effect no later than March 23, district officials said in a press release.
The district’s face-covering policy is now in line with guidelines from the state and those of LA County’s Departments of Public Health.
Shorter: The demonstrators were fed up with the demonstrations and wary of additional lawsuits. They looked stupid, considering that most of the government had ended torturing children.
Most districts in California lifted their mask mandate earlier this week, but LAUSD held off while it met with the teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles, to come to an agreement, according to ABC 7.
“I strongly support ending the indoor mask requirement and am committed to continuing to uphold our science-based approach to COVID-19 safety and protocols,” Superintendent Alberto M.Carvalho said in a statement.
Los Angeles Unified School District announces end to indoor mask mandate https://t.co/0wQEsgEwt2 via @nypost
— Alberto M. Carvalho (@LAUSDSup) March 19, 2022
Wait—not so fast Supt. Carvalho—SEIU Local 99 are saying the negotiations are not complete and that this announcement is premature.
From their website, which has a photo of a morbidly obese teacher in a mask, doing the “Peace” sign with a poor student with a mask AND a face shield.
It’s not a good way to present their case.
LAUSD is rumored to have made statements in the media saying that they will lift the masking mandates. However, negotiations must be completed with SEIU Local 99.
It is against our agreement that requires us to negotiate with the district over changes to COVID-19 safety protocol. On Friday, March 18, we had one meeting with the district to discuss this matter. Members voiced safety concerns. Instead of working together to find solutions, however, the district made an unintended decision that was only based upon their discussions with teachers.
Basically, they are letting Carvalho know who is in charge; and it’s not him.
Listening to frontline workers is essential and the district should negotiate with them to solve safety concerns. Local 99 members’ concerns are valid and they should serve as a guide on what practices the district must adopt given that Local 99 members are critical to ensuring a safe, clean and supportive school environment.
We demand that LAUSD does not change its mask mandate, or COVID-19 policies, until negotiations are completed over the effects of the masking mandate.
Keep watching for further information and get ready to act.
“Take action,” sounds like a veiled threat. This is what it usually happens with these people. You didn’t really think they’d go down quietly, did you? Silly rabbit—Tricks are for teachers unions!
Despite California’s many mask and vaccine mandates as well as passports, closures of schools, lockdowns, and other measures, the CDC believes that Californians have a greater chance of getting COVID than Floridians.
It almost seems like policies are irrelevant pic.twitter.com/xQEsfEgSW5
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 20, 2022
Despite all of California’s mask mandates, vaccine mandates, passports, school closures and lockdowns, the CDC estimates that a higher percentage of Californians got COVID than Floridians It’s almost like the policies don’t matter at all
Between Newsom’s revolving door of health personnel, and the CDC’s so-called, “coding logic error” that caused them to overreport pediatric death numbers, the flawed science is doing nothing but producing flawed policies, and that’s been evident throughout this pandemic.
** Correction with updated numbers. The CDC could have prevented more than 70k deaths. It is difficult to determine exact numbers as all prior data have been deleted. pic.twitter.com/zqoH1Wa1q4
— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) March 17, 2022
Besides, policies and science are pretty much useless when you’re dealing with legalized extortion; and that is all the UTLA, and every other teachers union, does.
The following is an L.A. Magazinepuff piece in August 2021. Cecily Myart Cruz (UTLA President) waxed eloquently on how much power they are able to extort. This article was written before Carvalho became the LAUSD Superintendent.
The school board will choose a new superintendent. He or she will need to deal with the woman in the conference room at UTLA Headquarters. Right now she has the cards and she is aware of it. “We’re reenvisioning what the future of public schools will look like,” she says with assurance.
The term, “Hazard Pay” fits here, and Supt. Alberto Carvalho looks set to take home every penny of the 440,000 monthly salary.
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