Kevin Kiley: “As we speak, a half million California students are locked out of school. Los Angeles Unified, America's second largest…”

“As we speak, a half million California students are locked out of school. Los Angeles Unified, America's second largest district, has shut down for the week. Taxpaying parents in this district have no place to send their kids to school. Sadly, they have had to get used to it. This dysfunctional district and its union have lurched from one strike, one shutdown to the next, and seized on COVID-19 as a golden opportunity to close schools indefinitely. Kids in LA were without in-person instruction longer than anywhere in the country, a year and a half for most students. Even when some high schools resumed, students walked into a Kafkaesque Zoom in the room setup where there were a few students and a teacher there instructing from a laptop sitting on a desk in the classroom. The eventual resumption of classes was anything but normal. You had kids who were forced to eat lunch on gymnasium floors or outside, even when it was raining. They would have to wear masks all day every day without any public health rationale. The district then imposed an illegal student vaccine mandate that the California courts had to intervene and strike down. By the way, this was a failing school district even before COVID--on the brink of bankruptcy, with students testing several years behind grade level. The hundreds of thousands of parents in this school district have been subjected to one abuse after another.…”