In the U.S., private schools, including Catholic schools, which often have modest resources, reopened.
In Europe, many were open by the middle of the year. Many other education leaders took a different approach in 2020 and came to favor a faster reopening of schools. Today’s newsletter, like Jonathan’s story, looks at the lingering costs to public education. In retrospect, the strategy seems to have failed.
had issued its own reopening plan in late April calling for adequate personal protective equipment, new cleaning and sanitization regimens in school buildings, a temporary suspension of formal teacher performance evaluations, a limit on student testing, a cancellation of student-loan debt and a $750 billion federal aid package to help schools prepare to reopen safely and facilitate ‘‘a real recovery for all our communities.’’ As my colleague Jonathan Mahler writes in a new story in the Times Magazine: Instead, Covid became an opportunity for her union, the American Federation of Teachers, to push for broader policy changes that it had long favored. Safety measures were not enough to reopen them, she argued. In 2020, the pandemic’s first full year, Weingarten came down strongly on the side of keeping schools closed. Teachers and parents feared that reopening schools before vaccines were available would spark Covid outbreaks, illness and death. On the other side of the ledger, however, was the worst pandemic in a century. Without public schools, their defenders argued, society would come apart. It was where low-income children received subsidized meals. School was where children learned academic and social skills. And it goes further than that, acknowledging that sometimes dressing differently from what might be expected is how we become our truest and best selves.During the early months of the Covid pandemic, Randi Weingarten and the teachers’ union she leads faced a vexing question: When should schools reopen?įor years, advocates of public education like Weingarten had argued that schools played an irreplaceable role. This wonderful read aloud celebrates the universal childhood experience of dressing up and the confidence that comes with putting on a costume. B.'s head, she goes from kid to kid instilling confidence and inspiring dreams in those who wear her: Together they are an unstoppable drag queen team! But Wig feels inadequate compared to the other, bigger wigs. When a child dresses in drag to compete in a neighborhood costume competition, he becomes B. In the spirit of Julián Is a Mermaid, this irrepressible picture book celebrates drag kids, individuality, and self-confidence from the perspective of a fabulous wig!
0 kommentar(er)
