Kalamazoo student preparing petition for in-person learning option
and last updated 2021-03-10 23:03:36-05
KALAMAZOO, Mich. â The fight for an in-person learning option continues in Kalamazoo after the school board upheld the superintendent s decision to remain fully virtual throughout the remainder of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Kalamazoo Central senior Humberto Zamora has been collecting signatures to urge the board to find an alternative. In preparation to submit the petition, Zamora and his peers plan to rally in front of the administration s building Thursday afternoon and, later in the evening, submit the petition documents at the regularly scheduled school board meeting.
Frustrated parents call into school board meeting over virtual only instruction
and last updated 2021-02-26 00:16:57-05
KALAMAZOO, Mich. â The Kalamazoo School Board has upheld the decision to instruct students virtually for the remainder of the school year. The decision was made by Superintendent Rita Raichoudhuri recently. The 6-`to-1 vote to uphold the decision was made my school board trustees on Thursday evening during what turned into a three hour meeting.
Dr. Rita Raichoudhuri referenced lack of staffing, social distancing, and union requirements as factors that led to the decision. Trustees who voted in favor agreed the virtual learning model is not best strategy for students to learn but right during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
January 29, 2021
You’ve probably heard that Ibram X. Kendi, author of “How To Be An Antiracist,” just teamed up with Netflix to create films and animated shorts about racism for adults through preschoolers.
You may not have heard some of Kendi’s other ideas, such as his proposal to create a federal Department of Antiracism to go after speech and policies that don’t fit Kendi’s definition of “antiracist.”
In Kendi’s paradigm, by the way, there is no such thing as simply being “not racist.” If you are not actively advocating Kendi’s brand of antiracism, he suggests, you are by definition being racist.