“I hear people whining and crying about Black Lives Matter, but George Floyd was a f criminal and he got arrested and he got killed because he wouldn’t comply," former teacher Howard Zlotkin told his class.
Let’s dance! Senior proms are planned in Kearny and Bayonne
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
A couple is seen at the red carpet sendoff for the 2018 Bayonne High School senior prom at the school on May 31, 2018. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
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High school seniors in Kearny and Bayonne can look forward to putting on their tuxedos and lavish gowns this spring, but not all Hudson County schools will be able to enjoy the senior milestone.
Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for proms which were canceled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic when he announced Wednesday that he was removing all restrictions on the number of people at outdoor gatherings as of May 19.
Jersey City school reopening, Part 2: The few McNair seniors in classrooms ask ‘where is everyone else?’
Updated May 10, 2021;
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Raheeq Ibrahim said she felt like a freshman all over again Monday, trying to find her classes with just weeks left in senior year at McNair Academic High School.
The 18-year-old said returning in person felt almost unnatural after 14 months of remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. Add into the mix teachers responding simultaneously to students online and in the classroom, and it made for a strange, unsettling day.
“You don’t get that same feeling in class,” Ibrahim said of her classmates who remained in virtual learning. “You can’t turn to anybody and start laughing at a joke or anything. It’s just you and the teacher, you can’t even do anything besides work.”
For Jersey City parents and young students, a huge sigh of relief on ‘first day’ of school
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
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JERSEY CITY – The night before Dwayne Redmon returned to School 20 for the first time in 402 days, he couldn’t stay asleep. He woke up thinking about school, he said.
“He was up at 4:30,” his grandmother Renee Peterson said. “He got anxiety today. Yesterday and today.”
Clutching his grandmother’s hand,
the 8-year-old was one of the first students to arrive at School 20 in the morning.
Soon, the rest began to arrive. Music started blasting, and a dancing dolphin, the school’s mascot,
These students overcame pandemic, a plan to close the school and a crumbling building to return to class
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
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The students at the A. Harry Moore school will finally return to their school building on May 3 after almost two tumultuous years that include the coronavirus and uncertainty over the school’s future.
Parents of the students are excited for the doors to open at the 88-year-old Kennedy Boulevard school building, after bearing the brunt of handling their children’s education and therapies.
Nicole Gohde says her 9-year-old son, Gabriel, who has developmental disabilities, epilepsy and autism, needs that one-on-one time not only with his teachers and therapist, but his friends as well.