40 Percent of D.C.'s Black Teens Will Soon Be Barred From School Because They Aren't Vaccinated

[Kamaji]

40 Percent of D.C.'s Black Teens Will Soon Be Barred From School Because They Aren't Vaccinated

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council will force all public school students ages 12 and up to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

LIZ WOLFE
8.26.2022

School starts on Monday for District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), which is requiring—per D.C. Council vote—that all students ages 12 and up be vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition to teens providing proof of vaccination, students of all ages must provide proof of a negative COVID test prior to the first day of school.

"We're not offering remote learning for children, and families will need to comply with what is necessary to come to school," said Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser in a press briefing.

Though students will be allowed limited medical and religious exemptions from vaccine requirements, a significant chunk of the District's teens remain unvaccinated, per current data. That number is significantly higher for black teens: Though 87 percent of D.C.'s white teens, between the ages of 12 and 15, are vaccinated, only 53 percent of D.C.'s black teens are. For the next age group up—comprised of 16- and 17-year-olds—89 percent of white teens are fully vaccinated, whereas only 58 percent of black teens are.

In many other contexts, a city policy having such a racially disparate impact would be cause for concern, particularly for progressives who frequently measure and seek to remedy such impacts. In this context, Bowser and D.C. Council members appear to be less concerned that these restrictive policies might lead to a disproportionate increase in truancy, which could result in parents being harassed and monitored by D.C.'s Child and Family Services Agency (or even, in extreme cases, locked up and forced to pay fines), purportedly out of the state's concern for the good of the children.

Both D.C. Health and Bowser have been explicit about the fact that unexcused absences due to lack of immunization may lead not just to schools "routinely contacting the parent, guardian, or adult student; placing phone calls; sending written notices to the home; referring students to Student Support Teams" but also may include "making referrals to CFSA, the Child Support Services Division, and the Office of the Attorney General, for truancy or educational neglect."

*  *  *

Source:  https://reason.com/2022/08/26/40-percent-of-d-c-s-black-teens-will-soon-be-barred-from-school-because-they-arent-vaccinated/

[Kamaji]

So, where are all the "systemic racism" typhoid marys now?

[roamer_1]

Now would be a good time for Republicans to step in with private school scholarships and home schooling solutions. These folks want an alternative.

[Kamaji]

Now would be a good time for Republicans to step in with private school scholarships and home schooling solutions. These folks want an alternative.

Yes it would!

[PeteS in CA]

I think she may be backing off from this, because someone let drop the reality that it would not work.

How high does a pol’s ivory tower have to be to not know before hand that parents accustomed to their kids being at home who also have low vaccine acceptance, demographically, would say, “No!” to a vax mandate?

[sneakypete]

Ok,does anyone REALLY believe the Black DC Leadership is going to kick black kids out of school over some whiteman nonsense like this?

Stop and consider that every baby-mama in da hood has several babies,and she will lose a check for each one that gets kicked out of school.

Ain't gonna happen.

[Wingnut]

School funding is determined by the number of asses in the seats.  Sounds like someone didn't think this thru.  But then Bowwow isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

[Kamaji]

School funding is determined by the number of asses in the seats.  Sounds like someone didn't think this thru.  But then Bowwow isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

I’m sure they’ll be counted for funding purposes - they’ll be assigned to a particular school, they just won’t be allowed inside the school building if they don’t have enough jabs.