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Dublin students pandemic stories included in arts council s time-capsule project
The generation of children whose lives were upended by the COVID-19 coronavirus won’t soon forget it.
But 12 years from now, as many will be graduating from a college or university, students from five Dublin elementary schools will have the opportunity to revisit their own words and pictures describing that moment in time because of a time-capsule project with the Dublin Arts Council.
“I might go back so my family can see what I wrote when I was in the fourth grade,” said Kaiden Marsh, 10, a student at Indian Run Elementary School.
Teachers struggle to care for class pets in pandemic By Megan Henry, The Columbus Dispatch
Published: May 14, 2021, 6:05am
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2 Photos Katie Guehl, a fourth-grade teacher at Indian Run Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio, checks on Daphne Phyllis, a red-eared slider turtle, in her classroom. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch) Photo Gallery
COLUMBUS, Ohio As teachers pivoted to online learning last school year, some faced a unique challenge: What would happen to their class pets?
Central Ohio teachers scrambled to find surrogate homes for their turtles, bearded dragons and other class pets last spring and, in some cases, again over the summer.
Class pets, weed boom, school robots: News from around our 50 states
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Birmingham: Declaring the COVID-19 pandemic “absolutely” managed despite lagging vaccinations, Gov. Kay Ivey said Monday that she will end a health order meant to guard against the spread of an illness that has killed nearly 11,000 people statewide. Citing improved infection rates, fewer hospitalizations and more widespread immunizations, Ivey said the current order recommending that people follow health guidance and requiring some precautions for senior citizens and long-term care facilities will end May 31, barring a sharp rise in cases. The declared state of emergency will end July 6, she said in a statement. “For over a year now, Alabamians, like people around the globe, have made sacrifices and adjusted to a temporary ‘new normal.’ We have learned much since last year, and this is absolutely now a managed pandemic. Our infection rates and