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Two parents sued the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District last week, alleging that the district has violated state law by failing to provide in-person learning this school year.
La Mesa-Spring Valley is one of multiple San Diego County districts that have offered only distance learning instruction to most students since the pandemic began last year.
The parent plaintiffs, Spring Vick and David Hargenburger, said in their complaint that distance learning has been “less effective, inaccessible, inadequate, unnecessary, inconsistent with the law, and in too many cases, very harmful to district students and families.”
The complaint cites state education law which says that school districts must “offer in-person instruction to the greatest extent possible.” The parents said that means the district must have offered at least some in-person instruction to all students.