View the public comment portion of the 11/11/21 D158 School Board Meeting below.
1:44 -Mother discusses negative effects of district’s quarantine policies on her daughter and how vaccinated children are allowed to return to school for “close contact” but unvaccinated must quarantine.
1:48 – Substitute teacher discusses ongoing staffing issues in the district and how few substitutes are currently available.
1:52 – Mother discusses quarantine procedures on the bus and how in one incident, a student who was not even on the bus and had missed school that day caused an entire-bus quarantine for other students based on a false belief that the absent student was positive for Covid.
1:59 – Father begins reading joint statement from the D158 Parent Union on the many discrepancies being stated in the name of “science” by our government authorities regarding masking and vaccines.
2:04 – Mother continues reading the D158 Parent Union statement on the dangers of the MRNA shots for children and their side effects.
2:08 – Mother concludes reading the D158 Parent Union statement on the inconsistencies in mitigation enforcement and how mandates are not laws.
2:11 – Mother discusses her daughter’s second 14-day quarantine and how difficult it is on her daughter as the Zoom instruction is not sufficient and the whiteboard cannot be seen on the stream.
2:14 – Mother discusses the culture of violence growing at the high school and the multiple physical fights occurring between students. Video of today’s fights circulated widely on social media and is shared with the board. States that the district’s reputation will suffer if the violence is not curbed, and that the district seems more interested in trademarking the term “Destination District” than actually making our schools safe.
2:18 – High school student discusses masking at school. “I find it funny how people can choose to use one bathroom or the other regardless of gender, but I cannot choose whether to wear a mask.” States that the masking decision should be up to parents.
2:21 – Mother states that it has been 600 days since school was normal for our students and addresses the growing violence in the schools. “The kids have turned into animals and inmates. What once was a ‘destination district’ is now a district people are running from.”
2:23 – Father states that the leadership in the district is driving people away. Asks if our leadership is just going to keep following orders. Discusses the videos of the fights at the high school today and asks why the school is more concerned with putting tampon machines in the boys’ bathrooms than stopping the fights in schools.
2:26 – Mother discusses CDCs new claim this week that masks reduce risk by 80%, which has no scientific basis and has no peer-reviewed evidence to support it. She shares actual stats on the low risk of transmission among students and how wearing masks is negatively affecting children’s development.