A school district cannot be sued for administering a COVID-19 vaccine to a young child despite the parents’ explicit instructions against it.
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Windham Southeast School District and the Vermont Department of Health on Friday, saying the organizations are not legitimate targets of the family’s lawsuit and bringing an apparent end to a legal saga that has been in play since 2021.
The issue began in November of that year as a 6-year-old, named L.P. in court records, was given one dose of a Pfizer vaccine at a clinic hosted by the district and health department.
According to WPMI-TV, prior to the clinic the 6-year-old’s parents informed the school that their child was not to be vaccinated.
An official at the school allegedly understood and acknowledged the parents’ orders.
After the discussion, L.P. was given a nametag with another student’s name on it. The student whose name was on the tag had already received a dose earlier in the day.
L.P. protested and told the adults in charge that “Dad said no.”
Despite this, clinic workers administered the dose. --->READ MORE HERE
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Four years after COVID-19 forced schools to close, educators want an overhaul.
Four years after the coronavirus pandemic closed much of the nation's education system, thousands of the more than 50 million U.S. public school students and teachers are returning to school this month.
In interviews with ABC News, education experts suggest the impact school closures had on the public education model could leave students with long-term developmental issues from lost learning time.
It has already exacerbated issues such as chronic absenteeism and teacher burnout, and now the persistent problems public educators face are causing leaders, experts and caregivers to sound the alarm.
One prominent educator told ABC that "public education is on life support." Another said the greatest current education challenge is the need for it to "reset," which the educator projected could take five to 10 years to achieve. And, polling suggests the American public also believes there could be grave consequences if nothing is done to fix public education.
Pew Research Center found about half of Americans think the public education system is going in the wrong direction. Eighty-two percent of people surveyed by Pew said it has been trending that way over the past five years -- even before the pandemic hit.
"It's needed restructuring for a while," STEM Equity Alliance Executive Director Arthur Mitchell told ABC News. "Education as it exists is unsustainable."
Mitchell shares the viewpoint of many educators ABC News spoke with -- that the issues facing school districts predate COVID-19. However, the pandemic exposed the need for an education reboot.
"The message that the pandemic sent was that you're not going to be successful teaching math and reading and science and social studies if kids haven't eaten, they haven't slept, they're worried about their dad's job or their grandmother's recent death," FutureEd Director Thomas Toch said. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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