The CDC has not even voted yet to authorize the vaccine for 5-11 but @MassDPH and @MASchoolsK12 are already asking school leaders to “urge parents” to get their children vaccinated. Pretty easy to see why we’re in a crisis of misinformation & distrust 🤯 doe.mass.edu/covid19/on-des…
This is the exact reason why we’ve called for a transparent, active, and fact-based messaging campaign on the *actual* data on kids + covid from @MassDPH. Sign and share:

change.org/MA_DPH_CallFor…
And it’s not just parents calling for more positive messaging of the real data from our public health authorities - infectious disease doc from @TuftsMedicalCtr is asking for the same ⬇️
And a @MassEducation @MASchoolsK12 board member similarly recognizes the actual data on kids + covid isn’t being amplified… ⬇️
So why, @MassGovernor @MassDPH are you choosing to message urgency of vaccination *before* it’s been authorized without ALSO messaging the facts re: kids + covid? Parents are beyond frustrated, kids are caught in the mess. Your messaging problem is coming to a head… (/end)

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Bring Kids Back MA

Bring Kids Back MA Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @BringKidsBackMA

29 Oct
Tales from the Ground: Middle schoolers in Sudbury MA received a survey this week called "Lunch Seating: Problem Solving For Winter". They were asked: Do you prefer to eat lunch on a floor mat, a chair (w/ lunch on lap), or a bucket that "can serve as a seat or small table"🧵(1/)
Students had been eating on individual desks spread out in the gym, but that space is needed as colder days arrive. **Of course** we can't even consider allowing children to eat in the regular cafeteria with their masks off😯. So students "voices" & "help" are needed ⬇️ (2/)
We were informed of this by multiple parents whose children were upset enough to alert them of this absurdity. Vaccination rates among 12-15 year olds in Sudbury? 95% have received one shot, and 88% fully vaccinated. (Yes, we know some middle schoolers are <12). (3/)
Read 6 tweets
27 Oct
We are partnering with #MaskLikeAKid and calling on all adults to take the challenge. Will you #MaskLikeAKid with us on November 1st?

Challenge your local school committees, Boards of Health, and our state leadership @MassEducation to do the same:
masklikeakid.com/the-pledge
Calling MA leaders: @MassGovernor @MassLtGov will you join us and take the pledge to #MaskLikeAKid on Nov 1st?

masklikeakid.com
Calling MA leaders: @JeffreyCRiley will you join us and take the pledge to #MaskLikeAKid on Nov 1st?

masklikeakid.com
Read 11 tweets
6 Oct
Today we sent a letter to the Baker administration, urging @MassGovernor to provide a clear answer: what is the end-game, the off-ramp, the objective for in-school mitigation measures on students who are in their third disrupted year of public education?
🧵 1/
As one million MA public school children walked back through the doors for in-person learning, they were met with a patchwork of inconsistent, overly restrictive, non-evidence based protocols that go far beyond the public health measures in any other venues in the state (2/)
Day after day @BringKidsBackMA is contacted by hundreds of parents desperately seeking to understand why their children are sitting in plexiglass stations or on the gym floor to eat their lunch, while children in the next district eat normally at cafeteria tables; (3/)
Read 11 tweets
26 May
Students may be back inside school buildings, but there's lots more work to do: view our testimony to the @MASchoolsK12 Board of Elementary of Secondary Education today to hear re: the concerning experience inside those school buildings:

Thread🧵(1/)
All along, we had said our first goal was to get children back in buildings; then, we would focus on “picking up the pieces” of what’s going on inside of buildings. Sadly, there is quite a bit to “pick up”...

Here are examples from districts across the state:

(2/)
Children’s’ school libraries still closed, books that must quarantine upon return, and children unable to perform upper‐level science labs because they aren’t allowed to touch the lab materials. (3/)
Read 12 tweets
6 Mar
Parents are getting used to the shaming from elected leaders: Kudos to these Lexington parents for speaking up when *elected* School Comm member @kathleenlenihan publicly mocks them.

This is why we applaud 👏 @MASchoolsK12 disrupting local control

#openschools @schools_us
This, folks, is what us parents are getting used to dealing with from @MASCSchoolComm elected leaders ‼️

Simply because we are vocalizing that our children need to be prioritized and that any semblance of routine and in-person schooling is sorely needed. Shameful! #openschools
Read 5 tweets
6 Mar
Bargain for labor all you want but @massteacher PLEASE for the love of all things STOP telling us that you’re doing this for the students. You must not have heard the very concerning calls from doctors to re-open schools for these STUDENTS who so badly need it. (1/n)
In case you missed it @massteacher, some quotes from the folks who really are standing up for students ⬇️
An alarming 31% increase in self-harming...starting as young as 5 years old ⬇️

Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(