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December 8, 2021
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Get pizza, take a shot of vaccine! Now, that's "pizza with everything."

In a shocking story, a mom named Maribel Duarte told NBC Los Angeles that her 13-year-old son had come home from school with a vaccine card and told her he had accepted the shot after being offered pizza.

Offered? The word is “bribed.” (Not sure if he put it that way to his mom, but that’s what it was.) The boy was even told not to say anything about it.

“It hurt to know he got a shot without my permission, without knowing and without signing any papers for him to get the shot,” Duarte said.

The school was Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in South L.A. How ironic that this happened at a school named for the President who pushed a mandate for government health care policies. Feel free to make up your own joke.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has determined that all students 12 and over are required to be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 by January 10, 2022, unless they’re granted a waiver or “other exemption.” That date is looming, but it looks as though they’re getting there, largely because, according to the story in FOX News, this district –- the second largest in the United States –- saw its enrollment drop by more than 27,000, or 6 percent, at the start of this school year over the mandate. At this point, among those who are still enrolled, the district boasts a vaccination rate of over 80 percent.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-boy-coronavirus-vaccine-pizza-consent-school

For LAUSD employees, the requirement started earlier. October 15 was the deadline for teachers and other staff to get their first shot. Those who hadn’t had one dose by then would not be able to return to work. One might think that in California, everybody was on board with the mandate, but that is definitely not the case.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/school-vaccine-mandate-california-covid-coroanvirus-gavin-newsom/2719402/

The district says they haven’t confirmed that this incident with the student occurred, but Duarte said her son told her that the woman who’d given him the shot --- and signed the paper --- had told him to keep it a secret. “Please don’t say anything,” she said to the student. “I don’t want to get in trouble.”

The school district does have what they call an “incentive program,” with the word “incentive” apparently meaning, at least in this case, “bribe.” They call it their Safe Steps to Safe Schools Incentive Program. “This program offers incentives to families who upload proof of their vaccine, have an approved medical exemption, or have conditional admissions.” Once they upload this proof, they are issued a “Daily Pass” to be able to attend class. They still have to wear a mask and socially distance “as best possible.”

It’s not clear what “conditional admissions” means. Perhaps some kids are sensitive to gluten and can’t eat the free pizza. Here's a closer look at the program.

https://achieve.lausd.net/covid

“The science is clear,” it begins, even though the scientific evidence in favor of vaccinating 12-year-olds for COVID-19 is not clear at all. Elsewhere on the site, it says, “Strong scientific evidence shows that vaccinations are an essential part of protecting our communities,” and links to this from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/148/2/e2021052336/179782/COVID-19-Vaccines-in-Children-and-Adolescents

It recommends COVID vaccination for children 12 and up. Still, if you read all the way to the bottom, there is this caveat: “The guidance in this statement does not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as the standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate.”

That’s funny, because by adhering to these strict deadlines, district officials ARE requiring “an exclusive course of treatment” and setting "the standard of medical care.” They need to remember they are not doctors –- or parents –- so they are about the last people who should be determining which “individual circumstances” to take into account.

The school district told NBC Los Angeles that “several steps are in place to ensure vaccinated students receive prizes.”

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/mom-says-son-vaccinated-in-exchange-for-pizza-at-lausd-without-her-consent/2773619/

In all our searching, we still couldn’t turn up what the supposed “incentives” or “prizes” are that go to students and families (other than simply to be able to come in and attend class in person –- and free pizza, of course), or what those “conditional admissions” are. But the site explains that in order to be fully vaccinated by the deadline of January 10, every student 12 years old or older must receive the first shot no later than November 21 and the second no later than December 19. Younger students “must receive their first vaccine dose by no later than 30 days after their 12th birthday, and their second dose by no later than 8 weeks after their 12th birthday.”

For students 5-11, the vaccine is “highly encouraged” but not currently mandatory. The district started offering it on November 8.

Presumably, Duarte’s son had hit the deadline of November 21 without being vaccinated and would have had to leave school and take his classes online unless he got the first shot on schedule.

Tammy Bruce, host of Tuesday’s “Fox News Primetime,” spoke about this with with flabbergasted attorney Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida. “It’s not only disturbing,” she said, “but it is illegal, obviously, in the state of California.” Parental consent is still absolutely required for children under 18 to receive a COVID vaccine. Bondi pointed out that this boy has asthma and allergies –- something his mother would have known but the school likely did not. What if he’d had a reaction to the shot? Schools never used to give a child so much as a baby aspirin without parental approval.

“Parents, it is your choice,” Bondi said, “whether or not your children are going to be vaccinated. Not teachers, not the socialists, not the school bureaucrats who go rogue, and they have to be held accountable.” She said this parent has a civil case, and that it might even be considered criminal battery, as children can’t give consent.

The woman who gave the shot was right about one thing: if this kid said anything, she WOULD be in trouble, along with the school, the district, and everyone who’s pushing to do this or anything else to kids against their parents’ wishes. It’s a good thing he told his mom.

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Comments 1-10 of 48

  • Kathie Russell

    12/10/2021 11:46 AM

    This person should be fired and the school should be sued to the full extent of the law!!

  • Kim Ferguson

    12/09/2021 01:32 PM

    I think what happened here is horrible...previously, schools could not even give an aspirin to a school child, now, a vaccine?!! Yes, this is worse than a bribe, especially to a minor!

    The same thinking is everywhere though - at a state run university campus, students were bribed this fall into taking the vaccine to be entered into a drawing for a $500 scholarship! Basically anything goes just to get everyone vaccinated, but why such the push...??? So much we are not being told.

  • Elizabeth W Chewning

    12/09/2021 01:14 PM

    A minor should not be vaccinated without a parent or guardian's consent.

  • Elizabeth W Chewning

    12/09/2021 12:59 PM

    I enjoy your newsletter. I am against Covid vaccine mandates. The vaccines have saved lives, but they may have taken lives too. There have been over 10,000 deaths reported to CDC/VAERS of individuals that have died after having the vaccine. The site made sure that they did not necessarily accept that the vaccines did this, but it still makes you wonder. There have been other less severe side effects too. Taking the vaccine should be a choice.

  • James Belle

    12/09/2021 12:54 PM

    I certainly hope this mom sues the pants off everyone involved...the school, the district, the person administering the shot and who signed the paper, the school board,,,,everyone.

  • JONI EVANS

    12/09/2021 12:15 PM

    This school needs to be permanently shut down until finding more integral people to work for them. This is horrible. What if this young man starts having heart infection like some other young boys? If it does, the school pay for each kid's medical bills.

  • Roy Ketcher

    12/09/2021 11:15 AM

    Pray the mother sues the school district,and anybody who is involved in this.

  • Janet Schwabe

    12/09/2021 09:37 AM

    Tthere is something very evil about this jab that doesn't work. Why the push for an unknown that one has to be forced or tricked into getting, that is 99% curable?

  • Vickie Baggett

    12/09/2021 08:44 AM

    Biden economy has upped our monthly expenses by $400. We are seniors on a fixed income. Now the electric bill is going up... It is already 1/2 our mortgage pmt.

  • Billy Wilson

    12/09/2021 04:26 AM

    I sincerely hope she sues the school and the teacher that gave the shot. Time to lawyer up.