staff and students regardless of vaccination status, end quote. but some school districts are opting to leave the masking decision up to parents. joining us now is justin davis a member of the gaston county school board in north carolina and brian whose two kids are enrolled in kidnapping george county schools in virginia. so i m going to start with you, justin. your board voted unanimously to let parents have that option. of course, this was prior to the cdc s new recommendations on masking in schools. could you expect that decision to stand or do you think that things will be revised given the cdc s latest announcement? well, i appreciate you having me on this morning. and thank you. rachel: of course. i think parents are best suited to make decisions for what s right for their child. and the cdc, of course, is a national organization. and has given that guidance but you know, i don t necessarily believe we need a one size fits all policy for everyone in this
we are seeing schools where the vast majority of students don t even read on grade level and so, to me, if there were ever more of an issue that defined equity it, would be ensuring that children know how to read. instead what we hear is schools talking about racial literacy. but we hear way too little from these activists about actual literacy. brian: 30 seconds. now you have identified the problem. you have brought it forward. you are talking about it what s your plan of action to change it? one of the things we are doing helping parents to understand when they feel in their gut that something is wrong, they need to know that they are not crazy. they also need to know people are going to call them names when they push back. that s what they do. there is no substantive argument to be made against the concerns that people are raising. instead they call them names. and then we give them the stools whether it s just to gain the confidence to have a meeting with a principal to go speak
from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less they ll miss. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. now as you re thinking about all the vaccines your teen might need make sure you ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. rachel: welcome back to fox & friends. the idea is updating mask guidance for schools now advising, quote: universal indoor masking for all teachers,
because there we net middle of this pandemic, closing our schools and churches all last year. took our kids out of school. closed businesses. might do this again. we don t know what s going to happen. mandates happening this entire time since joe biden has been in office. the border has been wide open. we had in the beginning it was the variant that was dangerous that was coming up from brazil. now we have this delta variant. now we have that 900 percent increase in covid infections in rio grande valley towns. this doesn t make any sense to people. people are angry. i just want to say one thing. we impeached a president twice over a phone call. one of them was over a phone call in ukraine. this is far more consequential and dangerous to the american people it will affect their livelihoods. it will affect their children s education if covid reinfects and does. brian: comes back. rachel: like what it did last year. we can t afford it. this is dangerous.
afghanistan. but weather it s our interpreters that stood and fought with us. that s what needs to be taught in our schools. but, do you know the thing. todd: we re up against a hard break. we have so many proudly waiving that american flag and inspiring. carley: absolutely right. thank you, congressman. thank you so much. fox & friends starts right now. can t we be friends? brian: all right. turn on the lights, everybody. we are ready to work full time for the next three hours and then get some rest. we don t want you to rest through the show. just gradually get dressed. every hour put on something else. the opposite of strip poker. right? rachel: you are so fun. brian: i thought we were going to ghump a shot of las vegas at