‘A person, not a statistic’: Berkeley teachers discuss reopening
Teachers expressed concerns around BUSD regulations on reopening schools and teaching remotely at a press conference Tuesday.
Previously approved accommodation letters to teach from home will no longer be considered satisfactory by the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, for teachers who wish to continue teaching remotely.
Yvette Felarca, an English language development teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School spoke at a Tuesday press conference hosted by Equal Opportunity Now/By Any Means Necessary. Felarca said she provided a doctor’s letter certifying her underlying health condition which puts her at high risk for sickness and death if infected with COVID-19 in January, which was approved by BUSD, in February and allowed her to continue teaching from home to the end of the school year.
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I haven’t rolled out of bed for a rally since I practically majored in activism in college. But here I was on University Avenue in Berkeley at 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, along with dozens of other masked parents, waving our “Open Schools” signs at the honking traffic streaming by the Berkeley Unified School District office. Drivers of garbage trucks, tow trucks and delivery vehicles laid on their thundering horns.
Freshly caffeinated parents in favor of something that we used to take for granted full-time, five-days-a-week public education were riled up after the gut-punch announcement the night before from Berkeley Superintendent Brent Stephens, nearly a year into uninterrupted distance learning, that the reopening dates announced a few weeks earlier would, in reality, involve the continuation of a full, or nearly full, schedule of Zoom school for the majority of students through the end of the school year.
Will California voters care about closed schools in 2022? Republicans are betting on it
Kate Irby, McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 6, 2021
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, math teacher Doug Walters sits among empty desks as he takes part in a video conference with other teachers to prepare for at-home learning at Twentynine Palms Junior High School in Twentynine Palms, Calif. State Republicans hope to use residual anger over school closures as fuel for 2022 congressional campaigns. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Gregory Bull / Associated Press 2020
WASHINGTON Republicans are looking to turn anger over California school closures during the coronavirus pandemic into a red wave for the 2022 congressional elections.