Florida School Run by Idiots Says Vaccinated Students Must Stay Home for 30 Days After Each Shot

Back in April, a Florida private school made headlines for demonstrating that its founders, who charge up to $30,000 a year in tuition, didn’t understand basic science. Centner Academy did so by sending faculty and staff a letter informing them that if they chose to get vaccinated against COVID-19, they would have to stay away from students, falsely claiming that “non-vaccinated people [had been] negatively impacted by interacting with people who [had] been vaccinated,” and also that it knew of “at least three women with menstrual cycles impacted after having spent time with a vaccinated person.” Obviously, none of what Leila Centner, who started the school with her husband, David, wrote was true, but that didn’t stop her from telling employees that anyone who planned to get vaccinated would not be allowed “to be near our students until more information is known,” and that if they chose to get vaccinated over the summer, they wouldn’t be allowed to return until clinical trials were completed—and only “if a position is still available at that time.”

For many parents, news of such a policy would be a reason to immediately pull their kid from Centner Academy, not just for safety reasons but also because Leila and David are clearly morons. None of the vaccines available in the U.S. include the live virus, so it is impossible for an inoculated person to “negatively impact” an unvaccinated person with the vaccine’s components, as people who don’t know what they’re talking about claim. In fact, as the Centners apparently don’t understand, it’s “biologically impossible.”

But for the parents who have kept their kids enrolled in the school, the founders have a new message: If you vaccinate your kid, they’ll have to stay home for 30 days following each shot.

Per The Washington Post:

The email from Centner Academy leadership, first reported by WSVN, repeated misleading and false claims that vaccinated people could pass on so-called harmful effects of the shot and have a “potential impact” on unvaccinated students and staff…. A similar sentiment was shared in an email to parents last week regarding the coronavirus vaccine. School leadership referred to the shots as “experimental,” WSVN reported, and encouraged parents considering vaccinations for their child to wait several more months until the school year ends. “We ask that you hold off until the summer when there will be time for the potential transmission or shedding onto others to decrease,” Centner Academy leaders wrote.

The school has a history of spreading inaccurate information about the vaccine and penalizing those who choose to get the shots…. About a week [after the April edict], a math and science teacher told students they should not hug their vaccinated parents for more than five seconds, The New York Times reported, referencing the same falsehoods the school communicated in its email about vaccine components “shedding” onto others.

Leila Centner has also spread anti-vaccine information during a meeting with parents and staff, and in a WhatsApp group with community members, according to the Times. In late January, Leila and David Centner invited outspoken anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to speak at the school.

According to the Post, the Centners have also, not surprisingly, discouraged their staff from wearing masks, though when state health department officials visited for dining inspections, teachers were reportedly told in a WhatsApp group to put on masks. In a statement, David Centner said the school’s policies are meant to be a “prudent precautionary measure,” claiming, “Our top priorities have always been our students’ well-being and their sense of safety within our educational environment.”

While government officials in another state might be horrified by what is going on at Centner Academy and be moved to do something about it, Florida governor Ron DeSantis is presumably thrilled. Last week he said he would be suing the Biden administration over its vaccine mandates, and for the last several months, he’s been in and out of court fighting local school districts that have had the audacity to implement mask mandates. DeSantis has also decreed that children not showing symptoms can be sent to school even if they’ve come in contact with someone who has COVID-19, proving, more than a year and a half into this, that he still doesn’t know how the coronavirus works, or he just doesn’t care.

In related news, Anthony Fauci told Fox News over the weekend that his critics “deny reality that’s looking them straight in the eye” as they embrace conspiracy theories and propagate misinformation about vaccines and masks, something that is clearly going on in the Sunshine State. Asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace why he thought he had become “so controversial,” Fauci responded, “Sometimes, the truth becomes inconvenient for some people, so they react against me. That just is what it is.”

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