Parents sue, blame school district for child getting COVID

WAUKESHA, Wisc. — A genitor has filed a lawsuit against the Waukesha School District and its schoolhouse board, claiming her kid got sick with COVID-19 aft being exposed by a classmate due to the fact that the schoolhouse territory does not person a disguise request successful place.

The kid is simply a pupil a Rose Glen Elementary School. The suit alleges the territory violated the boy's 14th Amendment close to beryllium protected from state-created dangers astatine school.

"We received a COVID-19 ailment for filing yesterday. We person not been formally served. Immediately we contacted our attorneys and connected the proposal of our counsel we person been advised not to respond further astatine this time," Waukesha School District Superintendent James Sebert said past Thursday.

The suit said a disguise argumentation was successful spot astatine Waukesha schools past year, but it ended connected May 12. The territory did not enactment a caller disguise argumentation successful spot for the 2021-2022 schoolhouse year.

In a declaration included successful the lawsuit, the parent said that arsenic a family, they decided to nonstop their kids to schoolhouse wearing masks contempt the territory not requiring them. She said different students did not deterioration masks astatine school.

The suit claims that a classmate of the kid came to schoolhouse with COVID-19 symptoms connected Sept. 16 and 17 earlier being sent home. The kid allegedly sat adjacent to that classmate each day. The parent said successful the declaration that her kid became symptomatic and tested affirmative connected Sept. 19. She said her different kids, besides enrolled successful the schoolhouse district, became sick with COVID-19 a fewer days later.

The suit claims each of the children missed respective days of schoolhouse and extracurricular activities due to the fact that they were sick.

The Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC is backing the lawsuit.

"Ultimately, we don't privation a suit that lasts a year," Super PAC laminitis Kirk Bangstad said. "We privation an injunction wherever a justice says, 'Until we suss retired what the defence has to accidental and what the plaintiffs person to say, we're gonna enactment masks connected kids excessively young to get vaccinated.'"

Bangstand is besides the proprietor of the Mincoqua Brewing Company successful Northern Wisconsin. Last year, helium and his edifice got nationalist attraction for hanging a elephantine Biden-Harris motion connected their gathering and releasing a "progressive" brew line.

Through the people enactment lawsuit, helium hopes that each Wisconsin schools volition beryllium forced to person disguise requirements successful place.

"We're trying to specify a people of schoolhouse boards that impact each schoolhouse boards that aren't pursuing the COVID precautions," helium said.

The suit was filed successful Wisconsin's eastbound district. Bangstand is hoping to bring different suit to the occidental district.

This communicative was primitively published by Sarah McGrew connected Scripps presumption TMJ4 successful Milwaukee.