About 30 parents and kids protested vaccine mandates at the Redondo Union School District building Tuesday during a school board meeting.
The group waved signs, saluted honks from passing cars, and sold T-shirts from a booth. “Born, Raised, Protected by God, Guns, Guts & Glory,” read one. Another bore a “Q” design; another a Harley-Davidson logo with the words: “Donald Trump: Four More Years.”
Several of the protesters addressed the school board during the public comment period.
Other speakers gave their support for the vaccine mandate.
Marie Puterbaugh presented the board with handmade gifts from the South Bay Artists Collective, of which she is a board member.
“The threats and abuse have been relentless,” she said. “… We just want to say ‘thank you.”
Jerome Chang, a parent of two elementary students noted that nearly 90 percent of district students are vaccinated, indicating that the policy is broadly supported.
“We look forward to continued safe classrooms,” he said.
Feedback, though, was mostly in opposition to the vaccine policy.
Michelle Jones, who identified herself as a godmother to a Redondo student, told the board that the vaccine changes your DNA, young boys in England have died from it, and that the vaccine distributors are “making a lot of money.”
Shauna Reppe, a widowed mother, spoke next.
“Natural immunity versus the shot is the winner over this,” she said. “I have access to information not on the news… Pfizer alone has had billions in fines.”
Dawnie Taylor, a mother of five, talked about the Nuremberg code.
“It is being broken and you are all complicit in it,” she said.
Kurt Baker said masking raises a child’s carbon dioxide rate in three minutes.
“You are violating OSHA guidelines,” he said.
He continued, staying within his allotted three minutes.
“Let’s talk about CRT,” he said, telling the board he has filed a Freedom of Information Request regarding the history curriculum in the district, after monitoring his daughter’s homework.
“If a child believes something belongs to them, that’s white individualism,” he said.
Rabeen Havasi said, “Healthy kids don’t need the vaccine to stay healthy.”
Christine Balasz, the mother of a 12-year-old, referenced information from the Centers for Disease Control website.
“The kids are not at risk,” she said. “If you do this, we all just have to pull our kids from public schools. We have to. You’re forcing our hand.”
The next woman, holding a Bible, stated this matter was bigger than Auschwitz.
Eric Lepetit said his three boys were “all Covid survivors”.
“Science and data should drive decisions,” he said.
Another man, noting his home country of France, said the vaccine will “kill 112 kids to save 37” from the virus.
Jen Chattersee, wearing a state of Texas outline on her baseball cap, said she has four daughters.
“These people are becoming billionaires,” she said of vaccine developers.
Sheila Garcia, wearing a rhinestone red, white and blue American flag baseball hat, told the board they “have been served.”
The final speaker, Kristina Mickler told the board she supported them.
Tuesday night was the latest in a series of regular board meetings that have drawn upwards of two dozen speakers, most opposing vaccine and mask policies.
Boardmember Dan Elder said he and his colleagues follow legal requirements set by local, state and federal entities, such as the Los Angeles County Public Health, California Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.
“We are not a public health agency. We are not staffed with medical experts,” he said.ER
