“My kids, my choice.” It’s a conversation happening across the state of California as parents and students protest the California vaccine mandate for middle and high school students.
The nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren drew crowds of parents and students to the California State Capitol Monday in protest.
Central Coast parents protest vaccine mandate in statewide school walk out
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