New York City lifted the ban on unvaccinated parents entering public school buildings
- Astoria Queens, NY:. "I was so upset. Why is it that someone who pays for school and has more money to throw around ...why do they get to play football? And I don't. What is the difference? Because we're playing the same sport. It's not like they're playing something totally drastically different. It's the same sport. We're doing the same things, and they get to practice, they get to play. And I don't, and for me it was just like, why? Why me? Why my teammates? Why is it that we don't get to have fun? Why is it that we don't get to play the sport that we love too? How am I going to get into a college if I don't have a junior year of football?". Lakewood, CO:. "You're taking children out of their natural environment of playing with each other, interacting socially and learning coping skills by interacting with other children. And when you take all of that away and all of a sudden these kids are in isolation, they mentally don't know how to handle it. We can go [through] short times of isolation, but we're talking a year and a half. of a lot of isolation." Lake Oswego, OR. "The school closures were devastating for her. I don't think I realized it at first. At first I thought it was safer. Lizzie, a child with Down syndrome, was probably more susceptible to a respiratory virus. She's had more respiratory issues than her siblings. So at first I thought it was the right thing to do As time went on, I don't think people realized how isolated she was. She doesn't have a means of reaching out and saying Hey, how you doing? I miss you. I wanna see you." "What Lizzie really needs is to look at her peers and how are they zipping up their jacket, or how are they coming in in the morning and making a food selection for lunch. That peer interaction and that peer role modeling is some of the best learning that my daughter can experience. But that role modeling is gone. When you're online she doesn't get to see what the other kids are doing. She wasn't out seeing people. Nobody knew that she was struggling. It was all in our house. It was impossible for a young person with cognitive delays to understand why, why was the world suddenly closed? Why suddenly could I not see my friends? Why am I only seeing them on a screen and how do I interact?". San Francisco, CA. "I felt bad for him because then that's when he started doing nothing else, but just like eating. I said you're not hungry. It's just a habit. Don't go to the fridge. He just mainly stayed home and did whatever he could through his on-line courses and just stayed home. I think he didn't go out of the house at one point for six months. He didn't go nowhere. He never even stepped out of the house. So that was not good. I said, you need to get out, you need to stop being in this little shell and bubble that you're in. It's okay. You can go out." Fairfield, CT. "Well we were very concerned because of the grades - that was the tip off. But again, it was hard because you can't go out with your friends. We were concerned. We asked the guidance counselor and the therapist, is he suicidal? They said no." "You cannot treat kids like prisoners and expect them to be okay. I think that we, our leaders, put most of the burden on children."
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