49 Comments
May 19, 2023·edited May 20, 2023

This is in my own backyard. There is another school district north of Bishop that was worse. I was a coach and athletic director at a private school during this timeframe. It was demanded of me to develop a "Covid plan" for athletics and I told the school to pound sand. We didn't wear masks - ever - except for three facilities and we got essentially crotchet masks to wear, didn't ever test, didn't social distance, did not segregate kids during transportation, nothing. I also told two schools in our league to pound sand when they demanded that we test our kids and that our parents could not sit in their facility during games. Told them I would put the games in as a forfeit win for us if they went down that road.

Expand full comment

Fantastic news, thank you for reporting it. While the settlement is a great victory, the money could have been many multiples more and still not achieve justice. Much appreciation to the parents and lawyers and especially to Leslie Manookian. She is truly an American hero and a hero for humanity.

Expand full comment

With rare, rare exception, the entire country violated "Title 21 U.S.C., the federal law for the use of EUA products, such as COVID-19 masks, testing, and vaccines." I retired early from a position in HR because I simply refused to comply and, as a matter of "policy," enforce this crime against new employees.

Instead of an entire nation -- or a sizeable enough proportion of the nation -- rising up in indignation, they merely obeyed. Worst among the "obeyers" were the newly revealed "enforcers." These "enforcers" enjoying every second of their newly-sanctioned ability to make people obey them.

This wickedness??? $400,000 and "training"? Unlikely to make any difference to those who revealed their degraded selves.

Expand full comment

While I applaud the legal victory, those children will never be the same. The damage is done to their little selves. They will never be able to have a normal upbringing. There’s no going back. I would like these teachers and administrators locked up in a prison for a few years to show them how we all felt during Covid. They may have loved the masks, social distancing, etc but many of us have nightmares about it. I know I do and I am not a child.

400k doesn’t scratch the surface of the damage they caused.

Expand full comment

To control a nation you must control the minds of the young. get them when they are impressionable and malleable and open to your thoughts. things learned while young are hard to change. I suggest that parents form their own union and demand that parent monitor's are allowed within each class room to see what is taught. they must also demand they be allowed to evaluate the skills of the teachers. DIVERSITY AND SKIN COLOR offer nothing to the instruction of children. I realized this while I watched a teachers strike in Detroit Michigan some years ago. A reporter was interviewing the protesters. To be clear the majority were black. the news lady was asking various questions from different teachers she asked one what she taught, her answer and I will quote it as closely as I can---- We be tichin English, you know what Im sayin! a phrase that many used many times when talking. I have poor skills in grammar but know very bad English when I hear it. When I was in school I had teachers that would take assignment homework and correct them overnight. they had corrections for English grammar , spelling as well as content. this was for a class of fifty kids and they had no computers or teachers aids to help. The idea that DIVERSITY helps education comes from people that lack skills and must depend upon government to get them employed. it isn't just in schools. it took me six months to renew my handy caped placard from Michigan secretary of state. What should have been an automatic process required four complaint Emails. In an era of computers it is unacceptable. it is time we demand that we get the service we are paying taxes for. Just where are they spending this money? government must have its "victims" to justify its existence. the more victims the more control they can have. Ask your children where they get their rights from. if they say government then we are in trouble and its time we act.-------------- I, Grampa

Expand full comment

Every last one of these atrocious meddlesome power-grabbing dimwits, at the very least, should be fired immediately. Criminal prosecution is completely appropriate. I'm not thinking "fines" either. I'm thinking "imprisonment" -- for at least 10 years each. These are vulnerable children they're deliberately hurting. Was Nazi Germany ever this crazy? I don't think it was.

No, this is fucking Salem Massachussetts of 1692!

This has to end. This has to bloody 𝗘𝗡𝗗. And the imbeciles responsible, made to pay for what they've done.

Expand full comment

The steps undergone for this modest victory were extraordinary. It shouldn’t have to be that hard and take that long to get a modicum of justice, and basically after the fact to boot.

Expand full comment

File this under "better something than nothing". Pepple got some money and some "training" is required. BUT, how have the perpetrators suffered? No jail time. No loss of job. No demotion. The school district pays the fine, which means the tax payers. So what is to stop them from doing the same thing next time? They'll just figure no real punishment and another tax-payer funded fine once everything winds it way through the legal system again.

Expand full comment

I've said it before and will say it again:

#BeRelentless

Take this fight to the COURT ROOMS.

Newsrooms are corrupt and captured.

Expand full comment

in California at Karen kingstons sons school they Tryed different things under CONvid & Karen taught them lessons everytime. like monkey pox scam her sons school is the only 1 in that district thats Not doing anything with monkeypox Scam thanks to Karen. as usual if people would listen to what she says & shows everyone would be better off & kid's would be Safer

Expand full comment

Wonderful news! Every single school district, workplace and government office should be sued in the same manner. Precedent has finally been set.

Expand full comment

SUE pfizer,pfauxci gates wef who schwlob nwo etc infinie evils etc.,,,

Expand full comment

CHEAPSKATES CHEAP CHEAP EVIL

Expand full comment
May 19, 2023·edited May 19, 2023

The public school system has been infiltrated over decades with marxist ideology and communist teachers. THEY have become the worst enemy of America, and freedom.

I say abolish the Federal Dept. of Education. Keep the fricking government OUT of the education of our children.

AND, all state and taxpayer money earmarked for "education" MUST FOLLOW THE STUDENT, so parents have the choice where their children are educated, even at home.

Expand full comment

This is WONDERFUL!

I recognize some of the Bishop/Ridgecrest names here.

This is where two of my sons were born......

Yahoo, GO OWENS VALLEY and Leslie Manookian!

Expand full comment

Bishop, CA must be some kind of freakishly anomalous enclave of conservatism in that left wing nut job state.

Expand full comment