Back to school: Hybrid learning starts for select Philadelphia School District students
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Monday marked the first day of hybrid learning for pre-kindergarteners through second-graders at 53 Philadelphia public schools.
That includes Hon. Luis Muñoz Marín Elementary in North Philadelphia. They are ready and learning in classrooms right now. They are attentive, they are navigating the virtual space with other partners that are still at home on Zoom, said Principal Amanda Jones.
Teacher Mandie White is excited to see her returning students. I told my husband, I m so glad to be able to talk to someone besides you! she joked.
The School District of Philadelphia gave Action News a behind-the-scenes look at the new safety measures in place at one elementary school as some students return to in-person learning next week.
It s not the first day of school, but it is the first-day in-school for dozens of hybrid students at Juniata Park Academy. I m going to make some friends from school, said student Adrianne Martinez. You can go to the gym and do gym and that stuff. On a computer, you can t do gym, said 5th grader Zohaib Khan.
School district Superintendent Dr. William Hite and Mayor Jim Kenney welcomed students.
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There’s a personal prejudice against public schools that I’ve cooked up over the course of years, and it began when I was a child myself. When I entered into the fifth grade, the Ritalin craze hit, and schools were recommending Vitamin-R be shoved down the throats of every kid who so much as sneezed out of line in class.
Public schools became drug pushers with kids being the recipients. The real reason wasn’t to help kids learn better, it was because they were getting government kickbacks for every child labeled with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. So, when my 5th-grade teacher told my parents I needed to go get tested to see if I had a disorder, my concerned mother did what she was advised, and wouldn’t you know it, I had it. What I really had, was the far more common condition of being a boy. Regardless, they put me on this new miracle drug, and my school got paid.