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30 Jun 2021
Ohio lawmakers passed a bill Monday banning public schools and universities from mandating students and employees get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved any vaccines for regular use.
House Bill 244 prohibits public schools, colleges, and universities in Ohio from requiring “an individual to receive a vaccine for which the United States Food and Drug Administration has not granted full approval.”
While the FDA has granted emergency use authorization for the three coronavirus vaccines, the vaccines have not received full FDA approval.
The legislation also states that public schools, colleges, and universities cannot “discriminate against an individual who has not received a vaccine” by mandating they “engage in or refrain from engaging in activities or precautions that differ from the activities or precautions of an individual who has received such a vaccine.”
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On Tuesday, an Ohio judge ruled that parents of an 8-year-old boy who died by suicide in 2017 can sue the school district for their son’s death.
Carson Elementary student Gabriel Taye was reportedly bullied in the three years leading up to his death. The third-grader’s parents sued Cincinnati Public Schools’ Board of Education, alleging school officials not only failed to intervene, but they never told the boy’s parents about the relentless bullying before his death, according to WXIX.
The parents’ lawsuit also lists Carson Elementary’s principal Ruthenia Jackson, ex-vice principal Jeffrey McKenzie, former school nurse Margaret McLaughlin, and former superintendent Mary Ronan as defendants.
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Chief Strategy Officer Sarah Trimble-Oliver said for blended learning to happen, COVID-19 cases need to be within a certain range.
Credit Cincinnati Public Schools (screenshot from Dec. 16, 2020 meeting) Forty cases per 100,000 is the range we would need to be below, Trimble-Oliver said.
Trimble-Oliver says Cincinnati is currently dealing with 70 cases per 100,000 people. The city s positivity rate is at 10.8%.
The Board of Education will start reviewing COVID-19 data Jan. 2. On Jan. 16, if cases remain below that threshold, Pre-K and specialized classrooms can return Feb. 1.
Credit Cincinnati Public Schools (screenshot from Dec. 16, 2020 meeting)
A slide shown during Wednesday s meeting says that blended learning offers both academic and COVID safety risk. Meanwhile, distance learning offers high academic risk, but low COVID risk.