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Parents protest remaining school mask mandates State has lifted other COVID-19 rules
Parents and students, protesting the continued mask requirements in public schools, walked from Harvest Park Bowl to the Brentwood Union School District office on Feb. 18.
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BRENTWOOD A group of Brentwood parents and students gathered in multiple Brentwood locations last week to protest mask mandates on school grounds. Although the state has lifted the universal mask requirements for most indoor public settings, students in kindergarten through 12th grade are required, with some exceptions, to mask indoors at school, according to the California Department of Public Health. “We should have a choice to have our kids wear masks
rights and our choice.” The group of parents began the day at Bristow Middle School, then made their way to the Liberty Union High School District (LUHSD) office, and finished with a march from the
“ I am devastated for our dedicated crossing guard who had to endure that speech this morning. I am very concerned that multiple students heard the same hate speech on their way to school and wanted to alert parents.
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BRENTWOOD Parents of Ron Nunn Elementary School students received an email from Brentwood Union School District superintendent Dana Eaton on Feb. 22 following an incident that occurred that morning involving a crossing guard and group of protesters. “As students were arriving at school, a group of protes-
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Excerpt of Dana Eaton’s letter to Ron Nunn parents tors were near the intersection of Central and Rose Brook Terrace,” Eaton wrote. “A Ron Nunn School Crossing Guard, who wears a hijab, was crossing students, when the statement ‘This is not the Taliban, this is
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to the School Resource Officer later that morning, according to Eaton. On Feb. 23, Brentwood Police Lt. Mark Louwerens confirmed that the department was aware of the incident and is investigating it. However, the incident was not believed to be criminal at the time, Louwerens said. “I am devastated for our dedicated crossing guard who had to endure that speech this morning,” Eaton’s letter continued. “I am very concerned that multiple students heard the same hate speech on their way to school and wanted to alert parents.”
Bowlero Harvest Park Bowl parking lot to the Brentwood Union School District (BUSD) office. The organizer of the event,
Crossing guard incident alarms school Letter sent to parents of Ron Nunn students
Alexis Gabe search gets help REGIONAL The KlaasKids Foundation has announced it will assist in the continued search for Oakley resident Alexis Gabe beginning on Feb. 25. The nonprofit, run by Marc Klaas, assists with missing person cases nationwide through a network of volunteers who organize and conduct searches while also providing training to other search-and-rescue volunteers. “We bring experience, professionalism, success, integrity and a Bay Area network of [search and rescue] resources to the search,” Klaas said of the organization in an e-mail. “We have been in this business for 28-years, we never charge for our services, and we intend to train selected volunteers to carry on the search, if necessary, once we have left.” KlaasKids will be in Antioch to assist with search efforts beginning on Friday, Feb. 25, according to a Feb. 23 press release by the foundation. The first deployment of volunteers will depart from the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds at 1201 W. 10th St. in Antioch at 9 a.m. A second group of volunteers will start their search at 1 p.m., with searches expected to continue through the weekend unless Gabe is found before Feb. 27.
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or not,” said Richard Donis, a Brentwood parent whose children attend Marsh Creek Elementary. “I don’t know, I think it all comes down to choice. That’s what the United States was pretty much based on: to have our
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