#Schools

Why I believe Boris Johnson’s encouraging schools to open England is racist A thread 1. First of all BAME groups are dying from Covid disproportionately. Up till 19th April figures
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I have a lot of thoughts about this piece in The Washington Post. Thread. First, I wish the general public cared this much about equity when we aren’t experiencing
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Members of RVA's City Council and School Board are holding a special meeting to discuss the board's attempts to take over school construction.Councilwoman Lynch says she's asking RPS to prove
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NEW: There are now over 60,000 new COVID cases on college campuses since August. This only accounts for ~1/4 colleges.Our new hot spots. This has been a failed experiment as
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We know an “at-risk” preference has to be prioritized before in-boundary or sibling applications in the @MySchoolDC lottery to have its largest impact. So, what's the preference order? Well, it
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Big takeaway from sobering Whitty/ Valance press conference - this is serious, have to stop weekly doubling of infections, don’t misunderstand the currently low hospitalisation rates - vaccines are on
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Look, I will never deny that antisemitism is a big part of what's going on in the world right now - but also, there is a huge cultural issue of
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1) Montreal now appears to be at the beginning of a new resurgence in #COVID19 cases, with younger Montrealers likely driving the latest community transmission, as they did in July.
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THREAD:@PWCSNews This is a slide from my 7th grade daughter's English class this morning regarding books they should read.Why is the school board allowing homosexuality to be pushed onto 7th
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Let me post the counterpoint since everyone on the left thinks this is racist and stupid and I don't. In my day I worked for a China-US dual national prof
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“I ate what Mikey ate and now my stomach hurts”What did Mikey eat?“A plant. He thought it was mint”-My school nurse interaction with a 4th grader.Kids will NOT wear masks
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My weekend column: New polling shows deep, bipartisan opposition to race-centered curricular changes in K-12 classrooms — an issue that’s already percolating in local school board elections across the country
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Like everyone, I am desperate to send my kids back to school. Remote learning is hard on my wife and me, and terrible for our kids. If we thought it
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For children, keeping K-12 schools closed is a cure that’s worse than the disease. Children rarely suffer any severe consequences of Covid-19, and they are at risk of suffering academically
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I’m beginning to wonder if it’s possible to suggest that Black children are educationally faring better at home without the necessity of comments around abuse & violence because American pathology
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Consistency is a superpower: at @DRETnews we have a staff handbook for each school called ‘The Way’ and it helps to align staff as a team. It helps us to
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