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riversedge

(69,723 posts)
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 04:50 PM Oct 2021

Local Parents [WISCONSIN] Are Fighting Back Against Anti-Mask School Boards


The first section is an email I got.

I AM SO PROUD TO SEE WISCONSIN PARENTS PROTECTING THEIR KIDS FROM THIS DEADLY COVID VIRUS!!




UpNorthNews info@upnorthnewswi.com via gmail.mcsv.net

Oct 8, 2021, 4:28 PM (3 days ago)

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Friday, October 8, 2021
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Local Parents Are Fighting Back Against Anti-Mask School Boards

As the number of new COVID-19 cases across Wisconsin remains high and virus-related outbreaks continue in schools, parents and other community members are stepping up efforts to urge school officials to require face masks and other practices health officials say will slow virus spread.

Many of the state’s largest school districts have implemented COVID-19 mitigation measures such as masks, social distancing, and quarantining of students exposed to the virus. But most mid-size and smaller districts have not adopted such policies, prompting local parent groups to organize in favor of COVID safety, measures supported by two-thirds of Americans.

Among those fighting for more protections in schools is a group of parents and community members in Wausau called Keeping Wausau Kids Safe & Parents Informed. The Wausau School District does not require masks in school. On Wednesday the group paid for a billboard along a city street that states “Hey Wausau School Board … Aren’t Schools Supposed to Teach Science?” COVID-19 activity in the county is classified as "very high," and there are currently 1,552 active virus cases there.

“The Wausau School Board and district administration continue to play politics with our children's health and safety. Zero is the acceptable level of preventable deaths in a public health emergency,” the group said in a statement.

Read more from Julian Emerson at our website.










Wisconsin Parents Are Standing Up for COVID Safety In Schools






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Written By Julian Emerson
October 8, 2021 3:49 pm CDT

Keeping Wausau Kids Safe & Parents Informed, a local parent group based in Wausau, purchased a billboard to push for a mask requirement in the local school district. ........................

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“The Wausau School Board and district administration continue to play politics with our children’s health and safety. Zero is the acceptable level of preventable deaths in a public health emergency,” the group said in a statement. “We won’t stop advocating for protections for our children.”


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“The harm is already happening here by doing nothing,” group leader Mary Hoefs said.

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Groups Form Throughout State

Such instances of groups pushing for face masks and other COVID-19 safeguards in schools are becoming increasingly common across the state, education advocates say.
As a statewide surge of COVID-19 cases spurred by the especially dangerous Delta variant continues, and as many schools continue to experience significant outbreaks, parents and others are taking action to convince school boards and administrators to adopt practices, including mandatory face masks, proven to limit virus transmission.

For example, in the Mequon-Thiensville School District, where four school board members face recall after supporting COVID-19 mitigation, a group has formed to back those members. Similarly, an online petition was launched in the Kenosha Unified School District to show support for restoring about $3 million in funding cut from the district budget at its annual meeting that was taken over by a local chapter of a national conservative anti-COVID safety group. Kenosha School Board members said they have faced scrutiny for supporting COVID-19 protections, including masks, and organizers of the petition said they support those protections.

In St. Croix County, parents of students in the Baldwin-Woodville and Osceola school districts told UpNorthNews they are frustrated at the lack of COVID-19 safeguards they say endangers their students.
Parents in the Baldwin-Woodville School District filed a complaint with federal officials about that district’s COVID-19 policies and are circulating a petition urging for their adoption. So far, the school board has still not required masks.

During September, 482 of the 774 new COVID-19 cases in St. Croix County were among people 19 and younger, with 331 of those cases in residents ages 10 to 19. ...............................


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Local Parents [WISCONSIN] Are Fighting Back Against Anti-Mask School Boards (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2021 OP
Whaaaa? The sane people who believe the science and public health measures can push back? gratuitous Oct 2021 #1
I have not even heard of these events on the LOCAL news. sad. sad. riversedge Oct 2021 #3
Good for them! Jilly_in_VA Oct 2021 #2
As long as they gojoe12 Oct 2021 #4
I think you have to scream at the School Board. LakeArenal Oct 2021 #5

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Whaaaa? The sane people who believe the science and public health measures can push back?
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 04:54 PM
Oct 2021

Any bets on whether they get the same respectful hearing accorded the shoutycracker anti-vaxx contingent?

Jilly_in_VA

(9,854 posts)
2. Good for them!
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 04:56 PM
Oct 2021

Glad to see my (former) fellow Badger Staters aren't all acting like some of their state legislators.

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