Judge grants restraining order to North County parents, overturning pandemic-related school rules
and last updated 2021-03-16 02:44:04-04
(KGTV) -- A judge granted a temporary restraining order in favor of a group of North County parents who sued the state in an effort to overturn pandemic-related rules they say prevent school districts from reopening.
Judge Cynthia Freeland said that the state's framework for reopening K-12 schools âis selective in its applicability, vague in its terms, and arbitrary in its prescriptions.â
âWith the mental health effects resulting from (or being exacerbated by) remote learning, one can conclude that disparate treatment being experienced by children affected by the January 2021 Framework is depriving those same children of a fundamental benefit of education, namely provision of the necessary tools to help children adjust normally to their environment,â court documents stated.