The Centner Academy private school in Miami has been in the spotlight for days: many parents of already enrolled pupils have threatened to withdraw them or have already done so, but thousands of applications for enrollment for next year arrive from all over the United States. The reason: Centner Academy is an almost explicitly anti-vaccination elementary school, whose founder Leila Centner, a republican activist with an eccentric lifestyle, openly disputes the anti-Covid campaign Biden administration, and asked teachers to “wait for now to get vaccinated, at least until the end of the year”, under penalty of revising their employment contract with the institute, so as not to risk “infecting students with viral shedding”. The bubo, however, broke out in class a few days ago. In a fifth, the math and science teacher admonished the students to do not hug recently vaccinated parents for more than five seconds, otherwise they would have exposed themselves to “Viral shedding”. It is one of the most popular conspiracy theories among anti-vaccinists; it is totally unfounded. And it is also at the basis of the warning to teachers not to get vaccinated so as not to infect students.
Immediately after the warning, the tam tam starts in the chats of the parents, many of whom are determined to withdraw their children; the school says that for each of them there are “hundreds of applications from all over the world” and avalanches of curricula sent by teachers from all over the United States. Centner Academy, a $ 30,000-a-year private school in Miami’s Design District, has thus become a stronghold for no-vax parents. For days in the school parking lot there have been television trucks and hordes of journalists; the case is so sensational that a journalist recently asked about it at the daily press briefing at the White House. Founder Lisa Centner, they say “Not opposed to vaccines that have been fully tested”, accuses them of “wanting to destroy my reputation because I go against the tide.” Under the Instagram post in which he defends himself, messages of solidarity multiply, far more numerous than those of dissent. «The families», write the founders of the school, Leila Centner and her husband, to parents who withdraw their children, «in the great majority support us; and many of the safety concepts we apply “, such as anti-vaccine precautions,” come from their suggestions.
After all, anti-Covid vaccines are not the first counter-current decision taken for her school by Leila Centner. The school lunch menus are sugar- and gluten-free, and children are taught that both nutrients are bad. The school windows are screened from “Radiation shields” that would prevent exposure to 5G frequencies; However, in class, children are recommended to stay away from windows in order not to expose themselves to radiation. On the other hand, masks are not used, and the lessons are all in attendance (the teachers who remained have signed declarations that release the school from any responsibility for the health risk. 13 years old, he lists among his values the “happiness” of children and “freedom of conscience in the medical field”.
May 3, 2021 (change May 3, 2021 | 12:25)
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