"The Great Divide: Families with means leave public schools for private schools or ‘learning pods,’ raising concerns about worsening educational inequality" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, August 8, 2020
The Millikins are among hundreds of Massachusetts families pulling their kids from public schools for the fall because they believe that private schools, full-time home schooling, or “learning pods,” where a group of families jointly finance a private tutor or teacher, will better serve their children’s health and learning during the pandemic.
It's the end of public education, and maybe that is a good thing given the poison the $chool $y$tem has been and will be pouring into their heads.
Private schools can switch to online learning more easily, Andrew Millikin said, in part because “everybody has a laptop and access to the Internet, and they don’t have to worry so much about the kids who don’t.” While he adds that he has sympathy for families without those resources, shifting to a private setting “feels like something we just have to do.”
Experts say the shift is predictable, but it could also have heavy consequences in the near and long terms, as these families — who are typically middle or upper-income — take with them vital funding and political advocacy for the public schools.
“Parents understandably are going to focus primarily on what’s best for their own kids,” said Richard Kahlenberg, director of K–12 equity and senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank headquartered in New York, “but the downside of that is that the children in the public school system will suffer.”
That's the plan, and oh, look another $tink tank!
Indeed, private schools are one of those rare ventures that have thrived amid the COVID crisis. Officials caution that private schools, which often have smaller class sizes and other resources, are hardly shielded against the coronavirus’s impacts. State and local health officials can order them shuttered, and even as private schools pitch parents on their well-spaced in-person classes, some of their teachers, who aren’t unionized, are anonymously pleading online for remote learning in the fall, citing health concerns.
They are no better than the unions!
The private school exodus is much more likely to have a lasting effect on the public schools, educators say, because families making that move — unlike those signing on to learning pods — might be tempted to keep their kids in privates post-pandemic, and that could have a long-term impact on the level of racial and socioeconomic integration in the public schools.
Some families say that although they are opting out of public schools entirely for next year, they may very well be back.
Looks like an empty promise to me.
Parents should look for opportunities to pursue their own interests and broader community welfare simultaneously, said John Diamond, the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. One possibility is to advocate for greater federal and state spending that allows public schools to reopen as safely as possible (regardless of where their own children will be educated this fall).
“People have to make decisions about what they think is best,” he said, “but I think they should be clear-eyed about the implications and keep in mind the collective good.”
Stop preaching communi$m, dammit, and where exactly is all the money going to come from now that the tax base has been destroyed?
I know they want to fine the citizenry to death to support the patronage $y$tem we call government, but that can only last for $o long.
Public school districts are worried about the migration of families, as each departure means less state funding to serve all students, said Tom Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. He disagreed with the notion that private schools offer a better alternative amid the virus and said public school districts and the state are improving both in-person and remote learning in the fall — with safe in-person instruction being everyone’s goal.
Scott said he believes some families’ departures are being influenced by teachers unions pressing hard for fully remote learning, even in areas with very few coronavirus cases, yet Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said the real blame falls on state government for under-funding public education for decades and for under-investing in rapid coronavirus testing and other health needs to ensure safe school reopening. Superintendents should be working harder to improve health conditions at schools, she said.
Najimy acknowledged that the spring’s remote learning rollout was rocky, but said the fall will be better because schools have had more time to prepare. Unlike many private schools, she said, public schools must serve all students — including those in poverty, English language learners, and those with special needs.
She questioned how it could be safe to gather hundreds of people in any school when the governor’s office says it’s too dangerous for more than 25 people to gather in an enclosed space in non-school buildings: “Be it public or private, the risk is the same.”
Yeah, sure, spout the garbage and put yourself out of work to advance your political goals -- and scaring the kids to death!
Many experts in education inequality are also parents, and find themselves grappling with new decisions that are both immensely personal and highly relevant to their work, yet, pods are problematic if they take away public resources — for instance, if parents ask a district to help their pod — or if they result in parents taking their kids out of public schools for good.
Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia hopes the pod she’s forming for her fifth-grade daughter and other children of color will challenge Boston Public Schools to better serve families.
The learning pod, which will be free for participants, received $235,000 from The Shlomo Fund, a local charitable donor group, to hire five staffers to instruct and support 20 students in grades two through eight, Mejia said. The students, all Black and Latino, will meet every day at the Lena Park Community Center in Dorchester, but remain enrolled in their public schools through the schools’ all-remote learning plan. They will follow along with support from the pod, which will also provide before-school and after-school programs.
If you don't think this is a Jewi$h agenda at bottom, then I don't know what to say.
The $hlomo Fund, huh?
Mejia sees the pod as a new model to address long-running achievement gaps. She wants them to be accessible for low-income people of color as well — and justifies the considerable amount of resources going to hers by noting that it can become a model for others. She says she is helping parents start similar pods in Codman Square, East Boston, and the Fenway.
“We’ve never had an opportunity to do something for ourselves,” Mejia said. “It’s empowering.”
Wasn't she the one doing dance videos while COVID was running rampant?
What a disgusting creature for advocating this as well. Just another tool is all.
Some families say that although they are opting out of public schools entirely for next year, they may very well be back.....
Yeah, I saw that. You didn't have to take up space repeating yourself!
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I'll bet teen pregnancy drops now that the kids are stuck at home over the lies.
You still have to dress for school in Illinois:
"No pajama pants allowed while learning from home, Illinois district says" by Will Wright New York Times August 08, 2020
Students in the capital of Illinois are not allowed to wear hats, bandannas, sunglasses, pajama pants, or slippers in school buildings, and that dress code now extends to their bedrooms and kitchen tables.
I'm wondering how that will be enforced.
“We don’t need students in pajamas and all those other things while on their Zoom conferences,” Jason Wind, the district’s director of student support, explained during an online board meeting of Springfield Public Schools this past week.
Along with the clothing requirements, the district’s remote learning guidelines mandate that students be “sitting up out of bed, preferably at a desk or table.”
A district spokeswoman, Bree Hankins, said in a statement that the remote learning guidelines were developed collaboratively with teachers, administrators, and parents, and that the dress code reflected what the students would be wearing when in school.
Except they are not in school, you totalitarian cretins.
By the way, the perverts will be Zooming in on your children and the Globe doesn't care.
It's becoming more evident by the day that one of the Globe's chief functions is to run cover for elite pedophiles -- if not outright pimp for them.
The district, which has about 14,000 students, does not expect to be punitive during remote learning, Hankins said.
I'm waiting for the but or still with bated breath.
“Our hope is that students approach remote learning as they would in a classroom setting, to the extent possible given each student’s individual circumstances,” Hankins said, “however, we understand the interpretation of the dress code in a remote learning environment will differ from a normal school setting.”
However is the same thing.
Other prohibited items, according to the district’s handbook, include clothing that is extremely baggy or that displays offensive language or symbols, and shoes that have wheels on the bottom.
“Each school has a reasonable interpretation of the dress code depending upon the building’s culture and climate,” the handbook says.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the district will start the school year Aug. 31 with a hybrid program, with students attending in-person classes two days a week. During the three days they are at home, the rules will still apply, the district said.
Christy Schmidt, who has two children that attend school in Springfield, Illinois, said that she watched some of their Zoom calls last semester, and that there was no correlation between what students were wearing and whether they paid attention.
“How much hassle are you going to give the parent with four kids, working a full-time job trying to support their kids, and their kid attended the Zoom meeting, but he was in pajamas?” said Schmidt, who has led a support group for parents during the pandemic.
A fine would be good!
Schmidt’s 14-year-old son, Ian, was concise in his thoughts about the extended dress code: “It sounds stupid.”
Does it, or does it sound like the totalitarian communi$m they are teaching you?
Many school districts nationwide have turned to remote education in some capacity to try to slow the virus’s spread, but learning at home poses its own challenges. Students who were already disadvantaged have fallen further behind, especially those without home computers or reliable Internet access.
I think the point of this whole Global Reset fraud was to do just that, pull the ladder up on the kids.
Judith Ann Johnson, a member of the school board, said the remote learning rules were in place to make sure students were maintaining high academic standards, not to police every clothing item or where they were having their Zoom calls.
“Everybody doesn’t have a mansion that has a room that’s designated as an office,” she said. “It’s perfectly fine if a child has a desk or if a child is comfortable sitting on their bed while studying. For me that’s fine, as long as they’re sitting up.”
Maybe they could find a pod in which to learn.
Ian’s younger sister, Keyra, 10, was skeptical that the district could enforce an online dress code. She also said she wanted teachers to let students work from their bedrooms, especially when a common living area might be too noisy to pay attention to their lessons.
There maybe hope yet if other 10-year-olds are as woke as she.
“If we have cousins and they’re making noise everywhere, the only place we can actually be is in our bedroom,” she said.
It remains to be seen how strictly the district will monitor what Springfield students wear while learning from home, but additional clothing will be required during the time they physically spend in a classroom, the handbook says: “Masks or gaiters that are solid colors, printed with District #189 or school logos are preferred.”
The masks are never coming off if they have their way, even thought they are harmful to the children and deprive them of oxygen.
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The fact that $chool districts and ejookhaters have gone along with this fraud $camdemic is sad.
Related:
"In a comfy suburb just outside Nashville, a young family swabs their noses twice a month in a DIY study seeking answers to some of the most vexing questions about the coronavirus. How many US children and teens are infected? How many kids who are infected show no symptoms? How likely are they to spread it to other kids and adults? “The bottom line is we just don’t know yet the degree to which children can transmit the virus,” said Dr. Tina Hartert of Vanderbilt University, who is leading the government-funded study. Evidence from the United states, China, and Europe shows children are less likely to become infected with the virus than adults and also less likely to become seriously ill when they do get sick. There is also data suggesting that young children don’t spread the virus very often but that kids aged 10 and up may spread it just as easily as adults. The new study aims to find more solid proof. “If we don’t see significant transmission within households, that would be very reassuring,” Hartert said. Some 2,000 families in 11 US cities are enrolled in the DIY experiment, pulled from participants in previous government research. In all, that’s 6,000 people. They have no in-person contact with researchers. Testing supplies are mailed to their homes. They collect their own nasal swabs for COVID-19 tests, and less often blood and stool samples. The specimens are mailed to the study organizers. Participants get text messages asking about symptoms and reminding them to test and to fill out questionnaires. The study could help determine the safety of in-class education during the pandemic, But results aren’t expected before year’s end. For Mendy and Joe McNulty and their two youngest sons in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., nasal swabbing at home is a family affair. Testing supplies are spread out on a carefully wiped down kitchen counter, where the four gather to perform what has become a ritual. Mendy McNulty helps the boys with their swabbing. “We were excited to be able to feel like we could contribute somehow,” she said, explaining why the family chose to participate. “This virus is so unknown. Any little bit we can do felt like we were doing something to help.”
By jabbing your kids up the nose and infecting them with who knows what?
Dr. Coleman is correct, people like those cited in the brief above are nothing but zombies and trolls, and in response to "Dr." Hartert they DO KNOW to what degree children can transmit:
"Scientists in a Nordic study have found that keeping primary schools open during the pandemic may not have had much bearing on contagion rates. There was no measurable difference in the number of coronavirus cases among children in Sweden, where schools were left open, compared with neighboring Finland, where schools were shut, according to the findings. The study compares two countries that share similar societal models, including access to universal health care, but that adopted very different strategies to tackle COVID-19. Sweden avoided a proper lockdown, while Finland imposed tougher social distancing. Indicative data show there is no difference in the overall incidence of the laboratory-confirmed cases in children aged 1 to 19 years in the two countries; contact tracings in primary schools in Finland found hardly any evidence of children infecting others, according to the working paper by the Public Health Agency of Sweden and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. What’s more, there’s no increased risk for teachers, according to a Swedish comparison of cases among day care and primary school staff, compared with risk levels in other professions. It’s not the first time researchers have raised questions about the merits of shutting schools during the pandemic. A French study last month found that schoolchildren don’t appear to transmit COVID-19 to peers or teachers. That investigation established that children seemed to show fewer symptoms than adults, and to be less contagious, but the authors also said more research was needed."
Yeah, if the science doesn't come back the way you want it, disregard it.
The fact is if their were household transmission of this fake viru$, it would be more than evident now. The sickos in charge want to use this so they can abduct kids for pedophile purposes, parents!
Also see:
"The NFL is in a tough spot with the COVID-IR list, as highlighted by the Matthew Stafford situation last week. Stafford tested negative his first two days of camp, and positive the third day. The Lions, per the NFL’s protocols, immediately placed Stafford on the COVID-IR list. The NFL does not announce whether a player tests positive or simply is a close contact, out of privacy and respect for the player, but the NFL does have to announce when a player goes on COVID-IR, for transparency’s sake (particularly for gambling), and the public at large doesn’t understand that you can go on the COVID-IR list even if you’re not positive. Stafford’s wife, Kelly, wrote in an Instagram post that she and her children got harassed at a grocery store and a playground the next day, and that their childrens’ school wouldn’t accept them. Stafford subsequently tested negative, and it was determined that he had generated a false positive test. “Maybe we should be absolutely positive a person has covid before releasing that info to the world,” Kelly Stafford wrote on Instagram. Friday, the NFL announced that it had tweaked its testing protocols in response to false positives, though it may not directly solve the Stafford problem. Now if any player or coach tests positive for the first time, and he is asymptomatic, the NFL will give that person two additional confirmatory tests within the next 24 hours to ensure that he is positive, but the player will still go on COVID-IR when he has a positive test and is awaiting his other results. The situation also exposes how false positives may significantly impact the season. If a player gets a positive test on a Saturday or Sunday, he likely will have to miss his team’s game while awaiting the results of his confirmatory test. It is an unfortunate side effect of playing through a pandemic. “We’re going to have to accept that players may be out of the team environment for a day or two while we do these confirmatory tests,” NFL medical director Dr. Allen Sills said Friday. “If we’re going to make a mistake, we want to make a mistake being cautious and not in the other direction.”
A false positive?
Up until now the pre$$ has claimed there are only false negatives!
I feel sorry for Stafford's kids, but that's what the sick globalist f**ks want.
Public shame and humiliation over a f**King fraud!
Btw, I hope his back is okay. Maybe he should think about retiring.
Parents question Boston Public Schools’ plans for the fall at community meeting
It's the probable cases and deaths that are bothering them.
People waited outside the CareWell Urgent Care in Inman Square Friday where COVID-19 antibody tests are done (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff).
They are going to endure short-term pain for quicker gain.
As schools plan amid coronavirus, ‘flexibility is certainly key’
That is what Rachael Abell, president of Beverly’s School Committee, says in the era of the pandemic which has killed more than 8,400 people in Massachusetts and has infected more than 111,000, while Lindsay Mosca, a Watertown School Committee member and a Wakefield educator, said the weeks between early August and the start of school “is a COVID eternity,” during which circumstances around the virus could change radically. She says the state should have implemented a phased reopening for schools, much like what was done for businesses, and that schools should follow state parameters based on public health data to determine each stage of reopening, from distance learning to a partial return to full in-classroom learning.
The sad part is no more school lunch from Gabriella Snyder Stelmack(sigh), but at least the reading period will remind us how despair can turn to hope.
Happy Halloween, kids!
"Salem’s mayor says many Halloween activities canceled due to coronavirus" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, August 4, 2020
Mayor Kim Driscoll announced in a statement Tuesday that many of the city’s planned Halloween festivities will be either canceled or scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Likewise, private events organized by businesses and local nonprofits also will face limitations by state officials that are intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the statement said.
The statement said that neither October nor Halloween will be canceled, “but they will look different this year.”
“Many people inside and outside of Salem will be disappointed that their favorite, fun and festive October activities cannot take place this year,” Driscoll said in the statement, “however, as a community we are committed to doing our part to help protect residents, visitors, and staff and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Salem.”
I hope Salem's economy is burnt at the $take, and the kids will be better off with all the tooth-destroying candy anyway.
Salem officials are assuming the state will remain in Phase 3 of the reopening by October. That phase limits indoor gatherings at 25 people, and outdoor groups at 100, the statement said.
Based on that guidance, while some events and activities may still be able to take place with restrictions, including several attractions, museums, walking tours, retail shops, and restaurants, many large-scale functions will not be held.
That will include several of the city’s “Haunted Happenings” events and programs, including the Grand Parade, Mayor’s Night Out, Kids’ Costume Parade, Lanterns in the Village, Biz Baz Street Fair, and the Great Salem Pumpkin Walk, the statement said.....
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Time to put and end to that Satanic holiday anyway.
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"Two men who apparently went swimming in an Ashland quarry and had to be rescued over difficult terrain by more than a dozen first responders are facing tresspassing charges, according to police....."
They had to paddle them out by canoe before rushing him to the hospital in an ambulance.
Comet watchers cause concern
Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle on Congress Street driving slowly through the neighborhood and stopping in front of random houses, responded, and determined that the driver and passenger were two young men looking to see a comet in the night sky, and was that a wise move?
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Look for a teachers strike and protests soon:
"Will Massachusetts teachers strike this fall? One local union is sounding an alarm" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, August 4, 2020
In a sharp rebuke, teacher union leaders in Quincy decided against endorsing the Massachusetts Teachers Association’s resolution to continue with remote learning at the start of the school year, accusing the state’s largest teachers union of potentially orchestrating a strike.
The Quincy Education Association’s executive board was particularly troubled by a request last week from the MTA that implored local affiliates to refuse to enter school buildings until the state and districts met building safety and public health benchmarks. The MTA did not specify what that criteria would be.
“After considerable time spent reading the MTA statement and trying to understand its language, intent, and purpose, the executive board determined that the MTA statement is essentially asking us to commit this union to a strike,” the letter dated Aug. 1 stated. “As a rationale for such a work action, it is shockingly vague.”
The dissent highlights friction among teachers about the best approach to take in ensuring schools are safe this fall for students and teachers. While teachers unions in other parts of the country have been threatening to strike, it is illegal for teachers in Massachusetts to take that action under state law.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s effort to coordinate union negotiations in districts across the state is considered unusual. In Massachusetts union negotiations are hyper-local affairs in which each union hammers out its own contracts with local districts — unlike in many states where a statewide or countywide union secures a single contract.
Ah, the heavy hand of a centralized union.
Great!
Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, emphasized the organization respects the autonomy of its individual affiliates located in more than 350 districts statewide, but added that many members were turning to the MTA for guidance.
“That is why we are spending the entire week to get all affiliates to move to a position where we will start the school year remotely,” she said. “This isn’t just about educators being afraid about going back into buildings. There are many families who are afraid to send their kids back into buildings too.”
She couldn't be reached for comment in print.
Asked if the MTA is laying the groundwork for a strike, Najimy noted that public sector employees in Massachusetts don't have the right to strike. The MTA, she said, will watch negotiations unfold in local districts, including whether unions are able to reach agreements with districts on remote learning. She was confident locals would have success.
Already several districts, including Franklin and Somerville, are planning to start their school year remotely or are leaning in that direction.
In an interview Tuesday, Allison Cox, president of the Quincy Education Association, said the executive board believed the MTA was overreaching in trying to organize a statewide strategy, but emphasized that her board supports the overall goals of what the MTA is seeking to do — ensuring safe learning environments for students and adults.
“It was a difficult decision,” Cox said.
It's all about removing one man from office.
One concern that emerged in the deliberations was this: If Quincy teachers joined a coordinated effort, would members be obligated not to return to their own buildings if teachers in other districts still had unsafe buildings. The executive board also worried that agreeing to language in a resolution that they interpreted as a threat to strike could undermine their ability to negotiate in good faith with Quincy school officials. Those talks just began on Monday.
“It is worth emphasizing that a strike is best defined as the failure of negotiation,” the letter stated. “A strike should be the very last option in times of deep desperation. The executive board finds it inexplicable that the MTA would ask locals to seemingly commit to such an action when most locals are at the very beginning of bargaining or, even worse, have yet to even had the opportunity to begin.”
It's perfectly explicable. Orange Man Bad.
Quincy teachers reached a point of desperation in 2007 when they went on strike for six days after 16 months of contract talks broke down. The union incurred significant fines that caused union dues to go up and union leaders received cease and desist orders with the possibility of arrest.
Cox said the union has not taken a formal position on which school reopening plan it will endorse. The state has instructed districts to craft three plans — a full return, remote learning, or a mix of both, which most districts are gravitating toward. Union membership has been split on the issue in the last two surveys and she is hoping a third survey, which wraps up on Wednesday, will bring greater clarity.
Dozens of other local unions have already united to back a phased-in approach to reopening schools, which the MTA is calling for, and would begin with remote-only learning. Those unions include Belmont, Brookline, Burlington, Gloucester, Malden, Nahant, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to a letter posted on the MTA’s Facebook page.
Jessica Wender-Shubow, president of the Brookline Educators Union, said she didn’t view the MTA’s resolution as an attempt to orchestrate a statewide strike.
“I have not heard anyone say we are not prepared to work,” she said. “Educators want to do good teaching and hit the ground running.”
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At least they changed the school mascot even as bodies are lying in the street and three officials at the Quincy Public Schools have tested positive for COVID-19 (fortunately, they are all men).
Now down to Somerville:
"Somerville becomes one of the first Mass. districts to announce remote-only school for the fall" by Felicia Gans Globe Staff, August 4, 2020
Somerville schools will start classes on a remote-only basis this fall, bringing students back part time for in-school instruction only when it is “practical” to do so, officials said Tuesday.
“When we can begin to return to in-person learning safely, we will do so,” Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone of Somerville wrote on Twitter.
Somerville school officials made their decision Tuesday morning, writing in a note to families that there are still multiple safety components that schools need to have in place before students can safely return to the classroom on even a hybrid basis.
School officials want to bring in an engineering firm to “assess the ventilation and filtration systems in our school buildings” and also create a virus surveillance testing plan.
“As we have said from the beginning, the safety and health of our students, staff, and families is and will remain our top priority,” Curtatone, Superintendent Mary Skipper, and School Committee chair Carrie Normand wrote, but, they continued, their choice to have students return to a remote-only schooling model this fall doesn’t mean they believe it’s ultimately the best model for students.
It's a disaster for kids and their social development.
What local officials and school leaders are doing to kids is downright criminal.
“One thing is clear: Everyone is in agreement that in-person instruction is the best thing for students and educators miss their students and students miss their teachers, paras and counselors,” they wrote. “We are doing everything we can to be ready for an eventual return to phased in-person instruction under the new safety guidelines. At day’s end, we need to ensure that we have done everything possible to mitigate the risks of a return to our schools — so that our staff, students, and families feel safe and are safe.”
The district is also looking into ways for students, staff, and families to gather outdoors.
The Somerville Teachers Association had been pushing for a remote-only start, writing in a recent op-ed that 85 percent of the city’s educators would prefer remote instruction for now.
It’s certainly not a long-term solution — everyone would like to return to in-person learning as soon as it is safe — but for now, it’s the decision that makes sense, said association president Rami Bridge.
Once Biden wins, we will go back to work.
“Somerville educators came to this conclusion awhile ago but they didn’t come to it lightly. No one is excited about the state that we’re in right now,” he said. “ . . . There’s nothing any of us want more than to go back to in-person learning. None of us signed up to be teaching at a computer all day.”
Why do I not believe them?
Massachusetts school districts were required to submit their draft reopening plans to the state by Friday, including plans for three reopening scenarios: entirely in-person, entirely remote, and a hybrid of the two. Districts are expected to submit final plans — both to the state and publicly — by Aug. 10.
Schools have been encouraged by Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley to prioritize in-person education.
Prioritizing in-person teaching is something kindergarten teacher Roxane Scrima would like to do as soon as it’s safe to do so. She misses being able to bring her kids on field trips, welcome them onto the decorative rug in her plant-filled classroom, or help them tie their shoes — none of which would play out quite the same way with social distancing requirements in place....
I'm sure there are some well-meaning and good teachers out there.
You should hire them to teach your pod.
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Related:
"United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the coronavirus pandemic has led to the largest disruption of education in history, with schools closed in more than 160 countries in mid-July, affecting over 1 billion students. In addition, the UN chief said at least 40 million children worldwide have missed out on education “in their critical preschool year.” As a result, Guterres warned that the world faces “a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities.” Even before the pandemic, Guterres said, the world faced “a learning crisis,” with more than 250 million children out of school, and only a quarter of secondary school youngsters in developing countries leaving school “with basic skills.” “We are at a defining moment for the world’s children and young people,” Guterres said in a video message and a 26-page policy briefing. UNESCO’s assistant director general for education, Stefania Giannini, told reporters the Paris-based agency plans to hold a high-level virtual meeting in the fall, likely during the second half of October, to secure commitments from world leaders and the international community to place education at the forefront of recovery agendas from the pandemic....."
He wants to “rebuild our world for the better,” and lockdowns are sure one hell of a way to do it.
Also see:
Protesters take to the streets with fake coffins with coronavirus cases reported at some reopened schools,
The TEACHERS are FRIGHTENING YOUR CHILDREN so they can GET THIS:
WTF do half of those have to do with teaching kids in the schools?
Your graduation has been cancelled like the rest of the culture, kids:
Cohasset and Weymouth have canceled outdoor high school graduation ceremonies that were scheduled for Friday due to concerns over possible exposure to coronavirus, officials from each town said.
Uh-huh.
Now go riot and protest, kids!
Weymouth Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple and High School principal Alan Strauss said Tuesday the graduation would be canceled after an unauthorized football camp was held recently in south Weymouth.
“Reportedly, the camp was attended by students from multiple communities, including Weymouth,” Curtis-Whipple and Strauss said in a joint statement.
Related:
"The entire football team and marching band at a small-town Alabama high school are under quarantine following exposure to the new coronavirus. Oneonta High School coach Phil Phillips told WBRC-TV, “I looked my wife in the eyes Monday night before I went to bed and I said, ‘You know I sure hope we didn’t kill anybody’s grandmother today by having a football practice,” said Phillips. “You’re torn because the kids want to play so bad.”
If Alabama is fumbling away the football, you might as well cancel the season.
“We are disappointed that we cannot celebrate our Class of 2020 as planned and we know that this will be disheartening news for our senior students and their families,” Curtis-Whipple said in the statement. “However, given the significant safety concerns posed by unauthorized large group events, we feel that canceling our in-person graduation is the safest course of action to protect the health of our students and the surrounding community.”
When are PARENTS going to WAKE UP to this RANK HYPOCRISY and FRAUDEMIC?
In a letter sent to families Monday, Cohasset High School principal Brian T. Scott and Superintendent Patrick Sullivan said the decision was made to cancel the outdoor graduation “out of an abundance of caution for the safety of all would-be attendees” after they learned that several students attended a house party in which people were in close proximity to each other and not wearing masks on July 25.
This is after we are being told that being outside limits spread, blah, blah, blah.
Smarten up, people!
“The possible impact of a recent gathering of graduates and their families, which was confirmed to have occurred by the Board of Health, has heightened safety concerns surrounding the graduation event and has caused district and town leadership to conclude that cancelling the upcoming event is the most prudent course of action at this time,” the letter stated.
The prom-like party hosted by Cohasset High School parents was not sanctioned by the town or the Cohasset Public Schools, officials said. Approximately 29 students and a number of parents were in attendance, and many were not wearing face coverings and did not follow recommended social distancing guidelines, according to town officials.
How is that for FREEDOM, huh?
Can't have a gathering without STATE APPROVAL!
Wow, did I ever just get a whiff of COMMUNI$M!
After learning about the party, the Cohasset Board of Health encouraged those who attended and their families to get tested for COVID-19, but given the short amount of time between the house party and the graduation, school officials said they would not be able to host the Aug. 7 graduation event without putting people’s health at risk. After the news broke about the July 25 prom party, several families and staff members expressed concerns about it and said they would not attend the in-person graduation event if it was held, the letter stated.
Scott and Sullivan said it would be “unfair” for any students, family, and staff to be left out of the graduation, and “the antithesis of the inclusive community that we have tried to build.”
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Be sure you get a front-row seat for this:
In Boston, various options for students this fall
It is looking increasingly likely that they will be dropping in-school learning like Chicago:
Chicago schools to begin fall remotely, dropping hybrid plan
A child holds a sign from a protester's car as it drives in the Occupy City Hall Protest and Car Caravan hosted by Chicago Teachers Union in Chicago, Illinois, on August 3 (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
How shameless!!
SCARING CHILDREN so they will advance your agenda!
Cuomo announces New York schools may reopen doors in fall
If they want.
The Globe says we should listen to the teachers because "we've put them in an impossible position, and the least we can do is hear them out:
A teacher in Mississippi checked a child's temperature before she entered her classroom for the start of school on Aug. 3 (Janine Vincent/Associated Press).
State must fulfill its promise to underserved students
The Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership(?) says as lawmakers determine the 2021 state budget, they must fulfill their promise to historically underserved students — even if that means wealthier communities receive less.
Meanwhile, Dr. Barry Zuckerman, a professor and chair emeritus of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett, a vice chairwoman of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation and program director of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, say the multitude and magnitude of coronavirus stressors on children is the perfect storm of insecurities and isolation that creates a setup for mental health concerns and crisis, while fearing coronavirus and missed classes, many parents prefer mixing online and in-person school, according a BG poll.
So who’s ready to send our cutest carriers indoors?
I'm told it is the chronic turnover of Boston school leadership is holding back reform efforts, not the viru$ and the neglected and dilapidated properties.
Baker rejects idea that all Mass. schools should be remote this fall
He says the ‘facts don’t support it,' and isn't that rich coming from him?
Related: Massachusetts Contact Tracing NGO part of Clinton Pedophile Ring in Haiti
Is that why parents didn't want to access state child care?
"A Georgia high school has lifted the suspension of at least one student who shared images of her crowded high school hallway jammed with mostly maskless peers, according to the student and her mother. Lynne Watters told The Washington Post on Friday morning that North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga., had ended her daughter’s suspension. The school, about an hour’s drive from Atlanta, was thrust into the national spotlight this week because of the images, which showed a sea of teens clustered together with no face coverings, and raised concerns among online commenters and parents over how the district is handling school reopenings during the coronavirus pandemic....."
That is like poetry to my ears, even if it was a little short.
Just wait until they grow up:
At Dartmouth, a student’s hunger strike over sexual harassment grows perilous
Students protested in front of the administration building at Dartmouth College recently in support of graduate student Maha Hasan Alshawi, who is on a hunger strike after alleging sexual misconduct by a professor (Aileen M. Eagleton).
Believe it or not, she ended the hunger strike the very next day after they settled.
"A Rhode Island man who sent a series of threatening emails to a Massachusetts college professor who spoke in favor of abortion rights and was critical of President Donald Trump has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison, prosecutors say. Matthew Haviland, 30, of North Kingstown, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston to 21 months in prison and three years of probation. Haviland pleaded guilty last September to stalking and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Haviland in March 2019 sent the professor 28 emails containing threats such as, “I will rip every limb from your body and eat it, piece by piece,” and “I will bite through your eyeballs while you’re still alive, and I will laugh while you scream,” according to prosecutors....."
It served as a warning before he pled guilty.
Related:
UMass Amherst reverses plan for fall
Most students will not invited back to campus because the town is afraid.
Mount Holyoke reverses course, plans remote education for the fall
Smith, Regis are the latest Massachusetts colleges to move entirely online
You would be better taking a year off off, kids.
