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Chicago Public Schools is taking its biggest step toward a return to normalcy Monday, a full 349 days after the pandemic closed schools and upended education as families and educators knew it. But school, for the foreseeable future, will still look nearly unrecognizable.
The vast majority of the 421 elementary and middle schools welcoming students back over the next week more than 92% will be less than half full, and 42% will be less than a quarter full.
Teachers across the city are expecting single-digit students per class, including some with no children returning at all. Schools have split their returning students into Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Friday cohorts, with Wednesdays reserved for school cleaning and remote learning for all.
Aldis Hodge plays Cleveland Browns standout Jim Brown in “One Night in Miami.”
Before the story gets to the evening in question in Regina King’s Oscar-buzzy 1964 period-piece “One Night in Miami,” there’s an unforgettable scene in which NFL superstar Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) returns to his hometown of St. Simons Island, Georgia, and visits the estate of Mr. Carlton, a wealthy white man who has known Brown’s family for years.
As they sip cool lemonade in the shade, Mr. Carlton (Beau Bridges) beams with pride and effusively praises Brown for his achievements on the gridiron, and all is a pleasant and light until there comes a gut-punch of a moment when Mr. Carlton makes it crystal clear Brown still has to know his place, and let’s just say that place is literally on that front porch.