When Ponderosa High School Teacher Mike Wilkes was placed on paid leave for lending support to students who removed their masks in protest of the state COVID-19 requirement to wear them, he wasn\u2019t surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understood the consequences and the irony is we’re in a system where adults are all afraid to do the right thing, including many who agree with me, but we’re being pitted against each other,\u201d Wilkes told the Southern California Record<\/em>. \u201cIt takes people to stand up and live true to their convictions in order to fix the problem in California.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE from: https:\/\/socalrecord.com\/stories\/613178885-el-dorado-board-of-supervisors-oppose-student-vaccine-mandate-teacher-remains-on-paid-leave-for-protesting-masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Ponderosa High School Teacher Mike Wilkes was placed on paid leave for lending support to students who removed their masks in protest of the state COVID-19 requirement to wear them, he wasn\u2019t surprised. \u201cI understood the consequences and the irony is we’re in a system where adults are all afraid to do the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,38,18,1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380.jpg",530,458,false],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ScreenHunter-1380-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Government<\/a> Kids<\/a> LifeStyle<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}