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EGUSD Student Safety
EGUSD students demand stronger mandates & caretaking action admist rapid Omicron surge.
Our Movement
On January 23rd, 2022, TRP @ 916 and @dreamych3line posted the petition onto Instagram alongside of a post accounting students' experiences on EGUSD campuses during the pandemic, expressing feelings of unsafety and fear due to poor management and site structuring. We called for the community to sign the petition and for EGUSD to implement better precautions, provide PPE (masks and testing), and introduce safer lunch policies.
The Instagram post and petition drew rapid attention overnight and throughout the following week, eventually leading to further progress for our movement. Now, the petition is at 1,100+ signatures.
Pretty soon, we gained the attention of people (students, staff, parents, etc.) from all over the district. We formed a team of youth organizers (majority BIPOC, disabled/neurodivergent, and/or LGBTQ+), all of whom were students from various EGUSD high schools. We took the petition to our campuses and community, organizing through flyers, physical petition forms, discussions, and more (as well as online!).
On January 26th, EGUSD announced that they would be distributing free N95 and KN95 masks on every secondary (middle and high) school sites to students who need and request them. In the announcement, they stated that elementary students would have these stronger masks available for use on their campuses very soon.
Our movement was making progress! But our work was far from over. Throughout our time organizing, we also heard from tons of students who voiced their concerns and suggestions on how campus could be made safer during the pandemic. There was, and still is, so much more room for improvement (e.g. the demands we outlined on our initial petition and beyond).
More COVID testing sites are also being established, especially on middle and elementary school campuses. According to the district, further staff and safety precautions are being assigned/applied to all testing sites.
During the following week(s), @dreamych3line met with various district board members and personnel, including the EGUSD superintendent, about the current problems and the much-needed new precautions. As of now, our student organizers are still voicing our concerns, continuing to pressure the district until significant change has been established.