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Too many did not take crisis that seriously
The folk wisdom that it is darkest before dawn could characterize the situation we find ourselves in a year into the lockdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that there is daylight on the horizon as the number of infections trail off, but we have to be patient.
Former President Donald Trump sat on his hands well into the deadly onslaught, pooh-poohing the crisis as an inconvenience that would disappear when the weather warmed up. Well, it didn’t.
Individual states stepped into the breach. However, the dalliance resulting from human error, disparate responses and simply the logistics of confronting an unfamiliar menace has cost more than 530,000 lives nationally and as of this week, more than 3,400 deaths in San Diego County.
OCEANSIDE (KUSI) – In a unanimous decision Oceanside Unified School Board voted to begin returning only some elementary students to partial in-person learning by mid-March, leaving out the many hopeful middle and high school students.
The board passed a motion pre-approved by teachers and staff that will allow elementary students receiving SPED services to return to hybrid split-day learning on March 8. On March 15, general education students will then be able to return in the same hybrid learning model.
“They have $51 million right now that they could use to put our kids back in school and they aren’t doing it,” said frustrated parent Todd Maddison participating in a rally ahead of the meeting. “I’m here because the district needs to pay more attention to what works for parents and their kids not necessarily of what works for itself.”