Column: Inside Orange County's bizarre school-reopening vote

Trump is determined to overthrow the Affordable Care Act, a move that would rip health coverage from some 23 million Americans during a pandemic.28 school superintendents, 13 representatives of local school boards, eight county health and social services officials and seven officials of the Department of Education, including Quick and Chau. That’s a pretty broad spectrum of direct expertise with public education and public health.

“My position has been consistent from the very beginning of the pandemic, which is that the biggest single mistake in the government response was the closure of the school system,” says Mark McDonald, a panelist who is a specialist in child psychiatry. “My rationale is that there is significant known harm, emotional and physical, to children who are kept at home and away from school for long periods.” The consequences include poor nutrition, emotional disorders and vulnerability to abuse.

hiltzikm Great!!’ Smart!

hiltzikm Dont open please. We need to home school these kids until it's safe. Also, we should buy $LRN and $BOXL stocks while we are at it. These stocks are support online education. Thank me later.

hiltzikm They think the Democrats are trying to block school openings to intentionally hurt the economy, preventing Trump from being re-elected. It’s the opposite. Trump is shooting his own foot insisting on schools re-opening during a major increase in COVID cases and deaths.

hiltzikm The frantic shutdown in March was an overreaction. School districts are starting with online instruction this fall because we shut down too early & for too long. We sat inside for 3 months, & infections have skyrocketed now that we’ve been “allowed” out. Kids need to be in school

hiltzikm This is an advisory board only. They use money, meant for children (staff time for agendas, minutes, communication, etc), to do nothing. None of the school districts are governed by them. They need to be disbanded.

hiltzikm Why is a board of education allowed to make medical decisions?

hiltzikm Please say Sike rn

hiltzikm Partisanship? for wanting schools open? Especially when children are extremely unlikely to get sick or pass the virus. You meant common sense right? LATimes is Leftiist trash.

hiltzikm Such a good story!

hiltzikm In my Califeducation, the 6 months I matriculated in OC yielded my best GPA I guess, compared to the natives I was exemplary

hiltzikm I wouldn’t call you a partisan sickness, . You’re just trying desperately to stay in business. Partisanship and scare tactics are one way to keep clicks going at some baseline. Still it is sad.

hiltzikm Boohoohoo. Because they rained on your parade, that's all. You wanted emasculation and kowtowing to Sacramento, instead you got a glimpse of intestinal fortitude. There's no partisanship in Cali just rubber-stampers.

hiltzikm RHOC Reality TV has fkd us all

hiltzikm Shame on the board. We can’t safely open schools right now when we have wide spread community transmission of the virus coupled with increasing hospitalizations and deaths. And then to do it without masks and physical distancing They’re out of their minds.

Gotta love a political board relying on “conclusions” from a political panel accusing people that want to keep kids home and safe of being political

Remember when the LA Times had an Orange County edition?

At least someone in CA has a brain and is going back !!

OC is the Florida of California.

Bottom line - this was essentially a political stunt which can be safely ignored by local districts.

To Orange Country sending Children back to school without Masks or social distancing is Child Abuse. How many deaths of Diabetic or asthmatic children is acceptable to you? Personal Injury attorneys are just waiting for this absolute lunacy.

thats what happenes when you dont pay attention. They get on the school board

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Orange County Education Board Member On Her Vote For Schools To Reopen Without MasksNPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Lisa Sparks, a member of the Orange County, Calif., Board of Education, about why she approves of the plan to reopen public schools without masks or social distancing. Couldn’t believe how ignorant this person is. And her ignorance will be deadly.
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Police shooting of 17-year-old girl was justified, Orange County prosecutors sayThe fatal July 2019 shooting of the girl — whom family members previously identified as Hannah Williams — happened on the eastbound 91 Freeway in Anaheim. Is there any discussion of the officer's subjective state of mind. He had to be flipping out -- intentionally hit while taking sick dog to the vet. He was almost certainly too upset to handle this tragic situation with calm detachment = dead kid. 2. I don't think the entire story is being told. The parents' civil lawsuit will have to sort this out. Funny that it took a year for the authorities to investigate the incident and type up 12 pages. Protesters and teens. Here are their targets. Heroes. Yeah.
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