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By ALIA C. COVEL
Rocio Lopez, SOMEA president
Rocio Lopez, SOMEA president
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March 12, 2021 at 12:55 AM
MAPLEWOOD, NJ As community tensions mount in the back and forth saga of if and when teachers will return to the classroom for hybrid instruction, a parent may have taken things too far in public.
The South Orange-Maplewood Education Association (SOMEA), which represents the teachers of the South Orange Maplewood School District, released a statement yesterday saying that Rocio Lopez, union president, was “accosted and verbally abused” by a person “by someone who identified themselves as a parent” during her visit to get her second vaccine. This account has not been independently corroborated by TAPinto SOMA.
Students, parents stage sit-in on N.J. school lawn to protest a year of remote learning
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Kids chased each other across the lawn of Marshall Elementary School in South Orange, as others sat in picnic chairs and blankets, completing schoolwork on a balmy March morning.
“This is as close to school as our kids can get right now,” Kate Walker, a parent and co-leader of the community group SOMA for Safe Return to School, told NJ Advance Media.
Kept out of school since the pandemic began last March, students in the South Orange-Maplewood community have found themselves caught in the middle of a bitter and entrenched battle between the local school district and teachers’ union.
‘We don’t want to be teaching in fear.’ How 1 N.J. school district keeps trying and failing to reopen.
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Parents and students of the South Orange-Maplewood school district hold a rally outside the Maplewood Municipal Building on Monday to press local officials to reopen schools.George McNish | For NJ Advance Media
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The morning of Jan. 19 was supposed to be a celebration.
Yellow school buses once again chugged down leafy Maplewood streets. Eager kids hugged their parents goodbye outside their South Orange homes. Morning school bells rang, signaling more than just the start of a new day.