In response to a statewide school walkout to protest California’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for schools, dozens of parents and students in Southern California rallied in front of the Bonita Unified School District building in San Dimas on Oct. 18. Despite the rain, parents arrived as early as 8 a.m., holding up signs with slogans such as “My Child My Choice,” “My kids won’t be part of your science experiment,” and “Don’t mandate uncertainty.” “As parents, we are concerned, we don’t want that to go now to the children’s level,” Alayna Nord, a mother in La Verne, told The Epoch Times. “We’re really concerned about the legitimacy of this vaccine and it has not been tested,” she said. “These kids are still getting the other mandated vaccines that are part of the process. What does that do to what your immune system normally does? How does it interact with these other …