Panel recommends naming new Bend High School building for Medal of Honor recipient Bob Maxwell
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) At Tuesday night s Bend-La Pine School Board meeting, a committee proposed that Bend Senior High School s new multi-purpose building be named for Medal of Honor recipient Robert D. Maxwell.
The committee, which is comprised of administrators, students, and community members, unanimously agreed on the naming proposal before presenting it to the board.
Maxwell, a Bend resident who passed away two years ago Tuesday at the age of 98, was the oldest Living Medal of Honor recipient in the nation at the time of his death.
BEND â Typically, school board races in Central Oregon are a quieter affair than City Council or state Legislature campaigns.
The elections are in May, not November, and during odd-numbered years. Turnout is lower, as most people donât get as fired up about whoâs going to be on the school board as much as they do about whoâs going to represent them in Salem. And the race is nominally nonpartisan â no Republican or Democrat identifiers on the ballot.
But not in this yearâs race for the Bend-La Pine School Board.
The campaign has become politically charged, and three candidates on a conservative slate have repeatedly criticized schools for how they teach issues of race. Theyâve said local schools make white students feel guilty, and claim so-called âwokenessâ â slang for an alertness to racial or social discrimination and injustice â is ruining local schools.
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All seven members join in letter to governor, schools chief
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – All seven members of he Bend-La Pine School Board have sent a joint letter to Gov. Kate Brown and Oregon Department of Education Director Colt Gill, urging them to ease what they consider overly burdensome student quarantine requirements, saying they are far too stringent for the current situation.
In the letter, sent Wednesday, the school board said the district has been successful as the first large district in Oregon to bring all students back to in-person learning, with “possibly 1 or 2 suspected instances of in-school spread out of nearly 18,000 students.”
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BEND â Francisco Guevara arrived at Bend High School a little earlier than normal Thursday, April 29. The senior was thrilled â after many attempts to sign up, he was finally about to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic inside the schoolâs gym.
âI was so excited,â said Guevara, 18. âEspecially since I work in food service, I was waiting for it to be my turn.â
Guevara wasnât the only one to seize the opportunity. He said half of his third period class was absent because they were in the gym getting vaccinated.
âIâm just glad weâre moving toward a better future with people being vaccinated,â Guevara said.