A California school board member, during a recent meeting, compared reopening schools during the COVID pandemic to “white supremacist ideology” and “slavery.”
La Mesa-Spring Valley Schools Board Vice President Chardá Bell-Fontenot’s comments followed the district’s board voting Tuesday to bring students back to classrooms for hybrid learning beginning April 19.
In a video of the meeting, a person can be heard saying “I don’t think our plan should revolve around a vaccination, solely. I think there are a lot of other factors that are really important for children’s health and well-being that we need to take into account here and to only put all of our eggs in one basket is doing a great disservice to our children.”
La Mesa, CA trustee Bell-Fontenot goes off on fellow board members, one of which is Hispanic, saying returning to in-person learning is “a very white supremacist ideology,” telling them to “[check] their privilege,” and that mandating in-person instruction is “slavery.”
1/5 pic.twitter.com/qIEiMPstsF— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) February 25, 2021
After arguing the vaccine rollout locally is insufficient and creates a problem for setting a timeline for reopening Bell-Fontenot said, “Without any teachers we don’t have the ability to teach the students so that is where we have to start. We can’t just say the kids can go back into the classrooms and there is no vaccinated teachers there willing to do that.
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