{"id":973755,"date":"2021-11-05T19:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973755"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:28:49","slug":"chicago-closing-public-schools-november-12-for-vaccination-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-closing-public-schools-november-12-for-vaccination-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Closing Public Schools November 12 for &#039;Vaccination Awareness Day&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-closing-public-schools-november-12-for-vaccination-awareness-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1271388207-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced it will be canceling school on November 12 for \u201cVaccination Awareness Day,\u201d so children five and older have the chance to receive their coronavirus vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday night email, Chief Executive Officer of CPS Pedro Martinez <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.chalkbeat.org\/2021\/11\/4\/22764553\/chicago-cps-cancel-school-vaccine-pediatric-covid-november-12\">stated<\/a> the day off will be an&nbsp;<span>\u201copportunity for parents and guardians to take their children five years of age and older to get vaccinated at their pediatrician\u2019s office, at a healthcare provider, or at a CPS school-based site or community vaccination event,\u201d according to Chalkbeat.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Martinez said the day off is to ensure that all eligible students will have the chance to receive the immunization as quickly as possible, CBS 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/11\/04\/chicago-public-schools-cancels-classes-nov-12-2021-vaccine-awareness-day\/\">reports<\/a>. CPS students will also be off the day before, Thursday, November 11, in observance of Veteran\u2019s Day.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/recommendations\/children-teens.html\">greenlit<\/a> the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages five to eleven on November 2, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/covid-19-vaccine-campaign-expands-to-elementary-age-children\/\">reported<\/a> by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS 2, the day off will be called \u201cVaccination Awareness Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chicago Teachers Union <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTULocal1\/status\/1456418430765211654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1456418430765211654%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fchicago.cbslocal.com%2F2021%2F11%2F04%2Fchicago-public-schools-cancels-classes-nov-12-2021-vaccine-awareness-day%2F\">tweeted<\/a> its support of the move.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.317073170732\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CPS plans to close all schools on Nov. 12, giving parents and guardians an opportunity to get their children vaccinated. <\/p>\n<p>We welcome the district acknowledging the urgent need for parents and families to vaccinate their children, and providing time and opportunity to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChicagoTeachersUnion (@CTULocal1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTULocal1\/status\/1456418430765211654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCPS plans to close all schools on Nov. 12, giving parents and guardians an opportunity to get their children vaccinated,\u201d the tweet reads. \u201cWe welcome the district acknowledging the urgent need for parents and families to vaccinate their children, and providing time and opportunity to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, Walgreens <a href=\"https:\/\/news.walgreens.com\/press-center\/news\/walgreens-to-provide-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-to-children-ages-5-to-11-at-select-stores-nationwide-beginning-saturday.htm\">announced<\/a> that it will begin vaccinating children aged five to eleven in thousands of its stores nationwide starting on November 6. CVS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cvs.com\/immunizations\/covid-19-vaccine\/kids\">announced<\/a> it will start vaccinating the age group beginning on November 7.<\/p>\n<p><span>The district has 340,000 students, according to CBS 2.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>CBS 2 reports that some working parents are displeased with the short notice of the last-minute day off.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, San Francisco Public Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/04\/san-francisco-require-proof-vaccination-children-aged-5-11\/\">said<\/a> that children ages five to eleven will soon be required to show proof of vaccination when entering indoor businesses and other indoor settings, Breitbart News reported, citing KRON.<\/p>\n<p>Philip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gEXDdYKGee4\">spoke<\/a> about plans for proof of vaccination for children ages five to eleven in a virtual town hall on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have asked me, what about the local San Francisco health orders that require vaccination to go into a restaurant or to go to a Warriors game,\u201d Philip said during the meeting, as&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/children-may-soon-have-to-show-proof-of-vaccination-in-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;by KRON. \u201cWhen is that going to apply to children five to eleven? We definitely want to wait and make sure children have an opportunity to get vaccinated so that will happen no sooner than about eight weeks after the vaccine is available to kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there will be a limited time in which there will not be those requirements as planned, but at some point, five- to eleven-year-olds will also have to show proof of vaccination to access some of those same settings,\u201d she added, per KRON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced it will be canceling school on November 12 for \u201cVaccination Awareness Day,\u201d so children five and older have the chance to receive their coronavirus vaccinations. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}