New council to focus on helping Michigan students recover from COVID-19 education disruptions
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 04, 2021
Students wear their masks during class at All Saints Central Middle and High School in Bay City on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com)Kaytie Boomer | MLive.com
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With Michigan schools encouraged to resume in-person learning by March 1 and winter sports reauthorized, school is starting to look more familiar. But with students having been separated from school support systems for so long, a new council is tasked with examining how the state can help students recover.
The new Student Recovery Advisory Council, comprised of 29 members with a variety of educational, medical and labor backgrounds, will make recommendations on how to help students recover. Those recommendations will include addressing students’ academic, physical and mental well-being.
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The idea comes with several challenges, including getting teachers on board.
“This school year, in and of itself, can’t even last five minutes longer,” said Paula Herbart, the president of the Michigan Education Association. “We need a break. Educators need a break. Students need a break.”
It’s undeniable that the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years have exhausted teachers.
There’s a mammoth hill to climb in order to find a way to get students back 181 days of in-person education and caught up in a way that they can advance with core competencies.
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“I feel like we’ve been left out the dark as parents. No one’s talking to us, no one is telling us anything. We were begging for answers, begging for anything,” said parent Courtney Andrew-Shevitz.
Andrew-Shevitz said she and her family built a home in South Lyon 11 years ago because of the South Lyon school district. However, she and her husband became so frustrated, that they moved their two youngest kids to the Brighton district where in-person learning is full time.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Friday announced that the tools and practices are in place for public schools to safely bring more students back into the classrooms.