San Diego Unified also offers vaccination deferrals for certain students, such as those who are pregnant, homeless, in foster care or from military families. The district said it is offering exemptions to the student mandate for medical reasons, which is in line with the state’s policies on vaccination requirements. Unlike Let Them Breathe’s lawsuit, which calls for the district’s entire student COVID vaccination mandate to be eliminated, the Scripps Ranch student’s lawsuit calls for San Diego Unified to stop granting exemptions for secular reasons unless they accept students’ religious exemptions, too. The other lawsuit challenging the district’s mandate was filed by a Scripps Ranch High School student who argues that the district is discriminating when it offers exceptions to the vaccination requirement for secular reasons but not for religious reasons. The group also argues that personal-belief exemptions must be allowed for any required school vaccination.
Let Them Breathe argues in its lawsuit that San Diego Unified lacks the authority on its own to mandate a vaccine and that such mandates violate students’ right to an in-person education. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the La Jolla Light. 24, when second-semester classes begin.ĭistrict officials have said mandating the vaccine will help lower community spread of COVID-19 and minimize disruptions to learning because fewer students will have to quarantine or isolate. The mandate states that if students do not comply with the requirements, they won’t be allowed to participate in in-person learning or extracurricular activities and would have to learn from home via independent study starting Monday, Jan. The deadline to receive their first dose was Nov. Under the policy, those students and staff members are required to receive their second vaccine dose by Dec. 2 decision by San Diego County Superior Court Judge John Meyer is the latest development in a lawsuit filed by an arm of Let Them Breathe, a statewide group based in North County that has fought school mask and COVID-19 vaccination mandates, including the one San Diego Unified adopted in late September for staff and students 16 and older. However, district officials say they expect that order will be lifted soon because the district has removed a policy those judges objected to. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges in a different lawsuit that focuses on religious exemptions. The district’s mandate already was temporarily blocked by a panel of U.S. A San Diego County judge denied a group’s request to immediately halt the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate and instead said he will take up the matter Monday, Dec.
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