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Yes, CNY kids are probably going back to school in fall. But here’s the stuff you’ll hate (video)
Updated 8:42 AM; Today 6:00 AM See what a plan to return to school in the fall may look like By Elizabeth Doran | edoran@syracuse.com and Marnie Eisenstadt | meisenstadt@syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. — Central New York kids probably will go back to their schools in September, but parents and students should prepare for a disappointing experience that will be nothing like normal. Superintendents and education experts across the state say parents should expect that few kids will go to their school buildings every day. Most students will still have to take classes from home some days. There will likely be no after-school sports with close contact. Even in-school activities, like physical education and music, may not happen because of the coronavirus. Some districts are considering options that are also child-care nightmares: elementary kids going half days or only a few days a week. Parents, you’ll still be running classes at home. read more 'Not enough teachers to reopen': School districts expect booming demand for substitutes
John Wisely, Detroit Free Press July 10, 2020 DETROIT — As if school officials didn't already have a long enough to-do list before reopening classrooms this fall amid a global pandemic, here's one more thing to add: deepening their pools of substitute teachers. read more |
Keeping schools open worked in Sweden
Dave Lawler, author of World AXIOS UNESCO estimated in March that 91.3% of the world’s students were out of school. But Swedes under 16 were not among them. Sweden’s iconoclastic approach was based on the belief that students faced little risk from coronavirus and far more from missing months of school. What they're saying: Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, admits there were flaws in the country’s permissive approach to the virus — Sweden has a high death rate, particularly in nursing homes — but says there’s little evidence schools exacerbated the outbreak.
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Defund universities, not police
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s an ill wind that blows no good. The good that can come from our present distress is the final realization that we have long been subsidizing our own problems. Funding institutions of higher education that for two generations have had an anti-American atmosphere has come to a head, as a large majority of the destructive Black Lives Matter crowd is made up of white, “university-educated” women. The days when you could work your way through college and graduate not only debt-free but educated disappeared soon after President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. Since then, billions of dollars in government money have been granted to institutions that were once independent. Student loans have put a lifelong, life-altering debt on the shoulders of graduates, making socialism with all its freebies sound like a great idea. Add to this a curriculum that supplants American ideals with Marxism and you shed not grace but poison into our society. read more
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