Hi, this is Addison from Tallahassee, Florida, and I'm celebrating my 12th birthday by finally getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

This podcast was recorded at...

...208 PM on Tuesday, 19 October.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll be partially vaccinated and looking forward to my second shot.

Okay, here's the show.

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Fun story. My son turned 12 October 2nd, and the one thing he really wanted to do was get his vaccine, and he did.

Ah! These kids.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.

And I'm Dominic O'Montanara, a senior political editor and correspondent.

Confrontations over masks, vaccines, and how race is discussed in schools have made school board members worry about the vaccine.

NPR's worry about their safety. NPR's Anya Cominets is an education reporter, and she is with us now. Hey there.

Hey.

Um, this is serious stuff, and all of us in one capacity or another have watched school board meetings before, and they are typically not the most exciting events.

They are not the most contentious events, typically, usually only a few people show up, but things have been different.

That's right, and it's the worst that people have seen in recent memories.

So I've talked to school board members at this point in five states.

I talked to Sarah Clark Pearson, she's a president of the Grand Ledge School Board, that's a medium-sized district near Lansing, Michigan, and she's been in public service for 30 years, okay?

And she said she's never seen this kind of anger and aggression, and she describes this really upsetting scene where someone in a public meeting got up and accused her of a crime with no evidence,

and they even brought up the end of her marriage.

No one in the community likes you, you're an embarrassment.

In fact, even your family doesn't like you, and that's why they left you.

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