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Thousands have signed an online petition calling for the expulsion of a Warde student who has been charged in connection with a racist Snapchat post. (Shutterstock/Zerbor)
FAIRFIELD, CT Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the expulsion of a 16-year-old student at Fairfield Warde High School, who is charged in connection with a racist Snapchat post targeting a classmate. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) shouldn t have to encounter this type of racist harassment from other students in a predominantly white institution, the petition said. Fairfield Warde High School should take racism seriously, and the student who posted the racist comment should be expelled immediately.
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Fairfield students are asking for one half-day per week as they return to full-time, in-person learning. (Shutterstock)
FAIRFIELD, CT Hundreds of students have signed a petition requesting that Fairfield Public Schools change Wednesdays to a half-day now that the school district has returned to full-time, in-person learning.
Fairfield schools fully reopened Monday and Tuesday after about a year of remote and hybrid education amid the coronavirus pandemic. With the learning model change, high school and middle school students expressed anxiety and requested that time be built into the academic week that would allow them to decompress.
The Board of Education discussed the petition Tuesday, and board member Jeff Peterson provided Fairfield Patch with an edited version of a letter from three high school students, which was sent March 2 to the board and Superintendent Mike Cummings. As of Tuesday night, about 800 students had signed the petition, according to Peterson.
Really good news: local educators respond to news teachers will be vaccine eligible next
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A nurse delivers a shot of COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a patient at Central High School’s vaccine clinic in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 20, 2021. Teachers will be eligible to sign up for vaccines beginning March 1 under new orders from Gov. Ned Lamont.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
Local school district representatives said they were pleased that teachers were going to be getting COVID-19 vaccines beginning next month now that the governor has expanded the state’s vaccine rollout.
“I am extremely happy,” said Bridgeport Superintendent Michael Testani. “We anticipated something like this might be coming down. We didn’t know when, but I’m glad it’s sooner than later.”