Fifth graders tell the Bidens virtual learning allowed them to eat and sneak in a nap
Students at a Virginia fifth grade classroom told President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden Monday that virtual learning gave them the chance to eat, take naps, and even fake technical glitches in order to avoid answering questions.
The school, Yorktown Elementary School, is now open four days per week, with students attending Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Students don t come to class Wednesday so the school can be cleaned.
One said, if we were really tired, we could like take a little nap. Another said, sometimes when Ms. B was like paying attention to something else you could eat and it was fun. Yet another student added that, If you don t know the question, you can just pretend like your mic doesn t work.
LAKELAND Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu nearly lost their freedom, and potentially their lives, because they dared to seek educations.
Seven years ago this month, the friends endured the horror of a nighttime abduction in their native Nigeria. They were among the “Chibok girls,” 276 students kidnapped from their school grounds by members of Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group opposed to education for girls and women.
Having daringly escaped, neither Bishara nor Pogu expected to complete high school. On Friday, each will receive a bachelor’s degree from Southeastern University.
“It’s feeling great because what happened in 2014 happened because of my education,” Pogu, now 23, said this week. “After what happened, I never even thought about graduating college even high school and now I graduated high school, I’m graduating college in two days and I’m talking about getting my master’s. So that’s like an unbelievable dream, but it’s true that it’s happ
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Guest commentary: Southeastern University thanks local law enforcement
Kent Ingle
On Friday, the safety of Southeastern University was put to the test.
Within minutes of receiving a threatening email, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office dispatched officers to our campus and members of our Sentinel program mobilized, ready to protect our community. Although Friday’s events transpired without casualty, it reminded us that even in uncertain times, we must do everything we can to ensure the safest learning environment for our students, faculty and staff.
Over the course of the year, educational institutions around the world have been met with unprecedented circumstances when dealing with safety and a pandemic. We have been forced to alter the way we approach operations on our campuses.