How Pressure to Mask was Put on PA School Boards
Were local school boards following the advice of the IU’s solicitors?
From the great works of EF PARENT
I was given access to right to knows (RTK’s) that were received over the last few days. It is extremely concerning the connection between the Intermediate Units (IU’s) and their Covid protocols that influenced local school districts. In the about me section for the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units (PAIU), they describe the organization as a non-profit group that promotes services for students in local school districts. In PA, there are 29 IU’s, one in each county.
In this article, we are going to focus on Bucks County IU. The first few RTK’s that were shared with me, exposed the IU’s solicitor firm’s influence over local school districts. Below is a screenshot of the RTK between the board members of Bucks County IU and their solicitor.
Pay special attention to the firm’s opinion to NOT allow religious or philosophical exemption, that masks do not meet the criteria for a religious or philosophical exemption. At this point masks fell under emergency use authorization, which fell under informed consent laws. Masks were also used as a catalyst for the NIH to do research on mask wearing and mental health.
This is continued, and it goes onto explain that if a parent sends in an exemption to wearing a face covering that it leaves the school open to legal concerns. Yet, it also states a school, at minimum, require a parent to provide the name and medical condition. Apparently the school knows your child better than their physician.
If a doctor’s note was provided, it should NOT be accepted until the school can substantiate the diagnosis. In other words, override the medical doctor that signed the exemption. The school would need to know very private medical information such as treatment. If the doctor fails to provide it, the exemption request can be denied.
If a student refuses to comply, the school can discipline depending on their dicipline code. As long as the policy included language about health and safety rules or mask wearing, discipline was acceptable. My daughter was threatened with in-school suspension for not wearing the mask “properly,” was pulled out of class and was subjected to intimidation tactics. The school district we were in at the time did NOT have a policy clarifying that masking or board approved health and safety rules would be met with discipline. I looked and just incase I missed it, I repeatedly asked from the superintendent, principals and the school board for a copy of it. My requests were ignored. I was also told to sign my children up for 504 plans if they have issues wearing the masks. My district is across the state from Bucks County, it seems many school districts in the state were following the advice of the IU’s solicitor.
PA legislation specifically states that the local boards and departments of health are the ones responsible for the prevention and control of communicable disease, NOT the IU’s.
That leads me to my next question, why did Bucks County IU create their own covid response team? The email below is a snippet of the how the IU’s were creating the response team to deal with Covid protocols in local school districts. Remember, they are basing their actions off of the IU’s solicitor’s advice, not local school boards or health departments.
The next screenshot is from Montgomery County IU. Showing that this is more than one county involved and influencing local school district’s solicitors. Rubin, who is listed on the email, is from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). David Damsker is Bucks County’s health director, who was against lockdowns, masking, etc. He was overruled in most of his decisions and was given an extremely hard time for speaking out.
Rebecca Malamis is the Director of the Bucks County IU. Her husband, Peter, who is neither employed by the IU or Health Department was relied upon to provide Covid numbers to justify restrictions. At the time of this email, he worked for Inteliquet, as the Senior Vice President, Life Sciences. Inteliquet’s focus is collecting healthcare data. What data did he have access to and was there any personal identifiable info or personal health info he had access to? Rebecca relied on her husband to provide accurate numbers, while he was in the business of profiting off of healthcare data.
Lastly, this screenshot shows a program that nurses have access to called Oracle. They wanted the nurses to input staff and student information, as well as vaccine confirmation. This email is from the Assistant to the Executive Director at Bucks County Intermediate Unit. Oracle, is a data collection/mining group. They are partnered with companies like JD Enterprises, which is a global corporation that specializes in cloud based services. Oracle also promotes big data collection for genomic research. Which plays a part in Covid testing programs that are in schools for weekly surveillance.
So many questions…
Why are the IU’s so involved in Covid responses while being a non-profit entity?
Why are our local solicitors paid to follow the lead of the IU’s solicitor?
How does that help us now, after the masking mandate was deemed illegal?
Can schools, principals, superintendents, and board members be held liable for taking the advice from a solicitor who was not acting on their own accord but following another solicitor law firm?
Does Oracle house private medical information on students and staff that can be accessed or shared with third parties and/or partners?
How can the IU’s override the local health director and local school boards?
Was money or something else exchanged to “play ball” and push the covid protocols?
How can the Director of Bucks County Intermediate Unit, Rebecca Malamis, give her husband, Peter, the job of determining the Covid numbers when he wasn’t employed by either the Bucks County IU or the health department?
I’ll add to this as more is shared with me. Below are more screenshots to review.
