‘We don’t want to be teaching in fear.’ How 1 N.J. school district keeps trying and failing to reopen.
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Parents and students of the South Orange-Maplewood school district hold a rally outside the Maplewood Municipal Building on Monday to press local officials to reopen schools.George McNish | For NJ Advance Media
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The morning of Jan. 19 was supposed to be a celebration.
Yellow school buses once again chugged down leafy Maplewood streets. Eager kids hugged their parents goodbye outside their South Orange homes. Morning school bells rang, signaling more than just the start of a new day.
Parents rally for return to in-person learning as group sues N.J. district
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
Parents and students of the Maplewood School district hold a rally outside of Maplewood Town Hall on Monday to press local officials to put kids back in the classroom.George McNish | For NJ Advance Media
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Ten-year-old Peter Kaplan took the microphone and fired up the crowd of more than 100 fellow students and their parents from the South Orange-Maplewood School District.
“We’ve got to keep on going, because if we don’t now we’re going to lose,” said Peter, a 5th grader at Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood, addressing the crowd from the steps of the town’s municipal building at dinnertime on Monday. “And we can’t accept the defeat from the district, who are just bullying us the whole way, and that’s just not right.”