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Pa.’s teachers, schools struggle amid ongoing COVID-19 crisis
Updated on Jan 27, 2021;
Published on Jan 27, 2021
Reopening meant major changes to scheduling, sanitation and even the physical layout of Middletown schools.
“WAS IT COVID?”
One veteran teacher of the Middletown Area School District explains her thought process: “I just spoke to so-and-so in the hall. Do I have it now?”
Fear spreads virulently as students and staff vanish without explanation from Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools this bleak midwinter.
One year into the pandemic, teachers and support staff say they feel set adrift without a lifeline.
They have little recourse when schools fail to follow safety guidelines because school boards and administrators, themselves struggling under budget deficits and staff shortages, have no incentive to admit fault.
592 pages
When an old house outside London is renovated, a treasure trove of Jewish documents from the 17th century is discovered in a secret cubbyhole, setting up a mysterious tale about life in a Jewish family that skips between the 1990s and the 1660s. British university historian Helen Watt joins forces with an intrepid graduate student to prove the identity of the person they believe is a female scribe who wrote the forgotten papers for a blind rabbi, a forbidden role for women during a time when the plague was rampant. The story delves into the hardships, successes and intimate lives of several Jewish families in an age where women s roles were extremely circumscribed. While it took me a while to really get into this work of historical fiction that took Rachel Kadish a dozen years to research and write, after I d read a few chapters the intricate story had me hooked. This 2017 National Jewish Book Award winner is a mystery and history all in one.