A group of Pleasanton parents are upset after an unidentified teacher was heard in a recorded Zoom class session late last month telling students that COVID-19 restrictions would severely curtail their in-person learning experience.
California legislators have agreed on a $6.5 billion school reopening plan aimed at getting students back in classrooms this spring.
On the public Facebook page, Open Pleasanton Schools! several parents claim at least a few other teachers made similar comments to their students - strong words that made some students think twice about going back to class at all. Students were changing their minds, some of them, said Janine Martin. They were getting the information from the teachers and some of it was not rolled out as positively as I would ve liked to seen it because they are changing their minds.
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Plans to reopen for in-person learning at Pleasanton Unified School District took centerstage during the Board of Trustees first regular online meeting of the year on Thursday.
While Alameda County remains in the state s purple tier of COVID-19 monitoring and the Bay Area s regional ICU capacity has been in the single digits since last week, instruction continues for PUSD students via remote learning, but PUSD officials are progressing with plans to eventually return to the classroom.
Ed Diolazo, assistant superintendent of student support services, told the Board that Governor Gavin Newsom s plan to reopen schools released in late December pretty much aligned to what we already approved for when we re able to reopen, by staggering the reopening of elementary grades and focusing on small cohorts at the secondary level.
Pleasanton city officials urge residents to wear face masks in public after a week of halted reopenings and an increase of COVID-19 cases locally and countywide. A Bay Area attorney representing several sexual abuse victims demands the removal of a youth swim coach from USA Swimming, Steve Morsilli, longtime coach for the Pleasanton Seahawks, for allegedly failing to report claims of abuse by other coaches. Morsilli denies the accusations. Daniel Moirao is appointed interim superintendent of Dublin Unified School District in the wake of Dave Marken s abrupt resignation. Community Association for Preschool Education (CAPE) joins forces with preschool provider Kidango to expand child care services for low-income families in Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore, with a grant from Child, Family, and Community Services.
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