Dear students, parents/guardians, and community members:
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has mandated that all schools in California require face coverings for all indoor classrooms. This applies to both students and staff.
While we can respectfully understand the frustrations being expressed, we believe it is important for the following to be factored into the processing of this state-directed mandate and the impact on all of our Nevada County schools.
This requirement to mandate face coverings for all staff and students was a decision made by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), not by our local schools or our local public health department. Any messages of advocacy or acts of protest need to be directed at the source of the decision, not the schools that are charged with implementing and enforcing the statewide mandate.
Dear students, parents, guardians, and community members: As the 2020-21 school year comes to a close, we are grateful for the patience, flexibility and perseverance that students, parents, and staff exhibited during these unprecedented times.
Submitted to The Union
On a mission to teach their students about descriptive writing while guiding them to impact their community, student teacher Alicia Frost Vandevorst and teacher Michelle Litton Ogaidi organized “The Mirror Project.”
They challenged their students the sixth- through eighth-grade PACE program at Forest Charter School to set a scene through a piece of descriptive writing, which 26 local artists then used as inspiration for pieces of art meant to reflect the students’ writing as closely as possible.
Ogaidi said that, after asking the local artists for their help, she and Vandevorst wanted the project to support the local artist community in return.