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A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019.
It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base inside Laos used by the North Vietnamese Army to infiltrate troops into the South. In one of the bamboo-and-thatch stilt houses, the ladder to the living quarters was made from metal tubes that formerly held American cluster bombs. The family had a 4-year-old boy named Suk, who had difficulty sitting, standing and walking one of three children in the extended family with birth defects. A cousin was born mute and did not learn to walk unti
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Opinion: ‘Safe’ reopening isn’t a reality for Oregon’s aging schools
Updated Jan 10, 2021;
Posted Jan 10, 2021
While many call for schools to reopen for in-person instruction, the reality is that many schools lack basic regular maintenance to keep classrooms, teachers and students safe, teacher Angela Dickey writes.
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Angela Dickey
Dickey has been teaching science at Centennial Middle School for more than 15 years. She lives in Portland.
I am a middle school teacher at an Oregon public school and the parent of two children. I am well aware of the needs of my students and my own kids to be back in school. But I also know that many of the people calling for a return to in-person instruction despite the COVID-19 pandemic have a minimal understanding of the working conditions in our public schools.
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