Arizona parents asked to sign COVID-19 waivers before sending kids back to school

[StarryNite]

Arizona parents asked to sign COVID-19 waivers before sending kids back to school

By: Zach CrenshawPosted at 10:11 PM, Jul 28, 2020 and last updated 5:41 AM, Jul 29, 2020
Thousands of Arizona parents are being asked to sign liability waivers before sending their children back to school.

ABC15 learned that 249 of the 256 traditional school districts in Arizona were provided a standard waiver by Arizona School Risk Retention Trust [The Trust], the statewide insurance carrier for schools, so that they could be shielded from potential lawsuits connected to coronavirus outbreaks in schools.

The waivers though, do not even need to be signed by parents for their kids to be allowed to return to in-person classes.

Furthermore, The Trust told ABC15 Tuesday evening that they have developed a "coverage option" that would make the "optional waiver" obsolete. The board plans to vote on it at their meeting August 4.

None of the parents in the Queen Creek Unified School District knew that though when the waiver popped up in their parent portal Monday.


[link:https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/queen-creek/arizona-parents-asked-to-sign-covid-19-waivers-before-sending-kids-back-to-school|

[Nevilledog]

1. It's horrifying, and it's true.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Some attorney who understands these things needs to step in.

[Hekate]

3. Okay all you serfs out there in 'Murika: If you don't work you don't eat & you live in your car...

Got that? So send your kids back to school so you’ll be available for work. One way or the other, someone in your family has to die, either of starvation or disease, for the economy to benefit the oligarchs.
(Signed)
Trump, Mnuchin, Kudlow, and DeVos



See? I got it all figured out. Is this a great country or what?