‘It’s not there’: A Memphis student scrambles to catch up on missing assignments
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Four months ago, Jalan Clemmons turned a corner of his family’s Memphis apartment into a cozy workspace and prepared to start his first year at Hamilton High School online.
He learned to check the assignments tab on his Microsoft Teams student dashboard for work he needed to complete. He participated in class virtually. He thought it was going well.
But during a November video call with his algebra teacher, the 14-year-old had a terrible realization: There was a separate tab he never clicked on, where his teachers had noted missing assignments. Jalan, typically an A student, had 73 assignments in seven classes that were overdue.
tomorrow. we are hopeful that that would be the case so folks can come in and replenish their medicinal supplies, their groceries, et cetera because we have significant concerns of the impacts that following next week. mike: state representative alan clemmons, my family and i would be back as soon as possible, we are glad the community was spared much from the storm. thank you. live conditions on the ground in carolinas as tropical storm florence dumps a massive amount of floodplain the region. our rick live with reporting conditions, rick. and molly, three days of this and more rain in the forecast, the big issue is trees all over town, we will have update on clean-up efforts coming up after
election. and in florida particularly on that sunday, church, souls to the polls day. and in florida what a court did was permanently impose a ban on certain restrictions that made it impossible for organizations like the league of women voters to go out to our community, bringing people into our democracy. laws might sound a little different, but they have a common thread. that is politicians trying to manipulate the system to cherry pick the electorate to keep certain people in, certain people out. i want to say this. a case moving through the courts right now from south carolina. i want to set this up a bit. this is i think this is a critically important point about which voters. in south carolina, we ve got a member of the statehouse, state representative alan clemmons who received an e-mail from
constituents. he did not right this, his consistent koval did. instead of asking vettoter i.d.f it announced it was giving out $100, the african-americans, elderly, would be there like a swarm of bees going after a watermelon. and clemmons wrote. amen, ed. thank you for your support of voter i.d. he didn t say the watermelon comment, but he did say amen in response. in south carolina in particular and this is something progressives do a disservice, because they try not to talk about it. in south carolina, it s been the tea party pushing all of these voter suppression laws and they have very close ties, most are members of the neoconfederate organizations which is really just code for these white supremacist groups, modern day