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Chicago school leaders canceled classes for a second straight day after failing to reach an agreement Wednesday with the teachers union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety protocols in the nation’s third-largest school district.
The Chicago Teachers Union, which voted to revert to online instruction, told teachers to stay home Wednesday during the latest COVID-19 surge while both sides negotiate, prompting district officials to cancel classes two days after students returned from winter break. Chicago Public Schools, like most other districts, has rejected retuning to remote learning, saying it worsened racial inequities and was detrimental to academic performance, mental health and attendance. District officials insist schools can safely remain open with protocols in place.
School districts nationwide have grappled with the same issues, with most opting to stay open while ramping up virus testing, tweaking protocols and other adjustments in response to the shifting pandemic. White House press secretary Jen Psaki, echoing President Joe Biden a day earlier, said Wednesday that the country is better equipped now to make sure schools can safely open “including in Chicago,” while former President Donald Trump called the closures “devastating.”
District and union officials negotiated behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon but failed to produce an agreement. The issues include metrics that would trigger school closures and more COVID-19 testing. For instance, school leaders support remote learning only at the classroom and school level when there are outbreaks, as has been the case this year, versus a district-wide switch to remote learning which the union has supported. “We know that our schools are safe. Yes. Do we have challenges across individual schools? Absolutely. Do we respond? Absolutely,” Schools CEO Pedro Martinez told reporters Wednesday evening.
He said the no-deal situation left “no choice but to leave it”.
Martinez said students may be able to start returning to schools on Friday for services like tutoring or counseling depending on how many staff members show up. Buildings stayed open Wednesday for meal pickup in the largely low-income and Black and Latino school district.
Union President Jesse Sharkey said teachers don’t want to return to in-person instruction until the current surge has subsided. “We’d rather be in our classes teaching, we’d rather have the schools open. What we are saying though is that right now we’re in the middle of a major surge, it is breaking all the records and hospitals are full,” he said during a Wednesday morning news conference.
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Beauty through the ages – the funky Seventies
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Building Post-COVID, Future-proof Resilience.
Autumn is here, Winter is near. Almost a year our world has been shaken by a very smart, almost elusive virus, impacting every aspect of life. Creating new ways of interacting, socially and commercially. As the world works to defeat the pandemic, countries try to aim at transforming their economies and communities to be fairer, smarter and greener, in order to come back stronger.
We hear more and more now the importance of resilience in order to survive the pandemic. From physical & mental resilience, social & community resilience, and economic resilience. And of course, resilience in jobs, the extent to which digitalisation has saved jobs is incredible. There are many aspects of life that we can control, modify, and improve. That’s the role of resilience. Becoming more resilient not only helps us get through difficult circumstances, it also empowers to improve life along the way to the one we want. There are plenty of self-help e-book and sites for references, but of course resilience does come also from within. The one billion dollar question is, what kind of future do we want to build our resilience around ?
Contradicting opinions start arising whether or not solidarity is as genuine as it should be. When one job is competed amongst thousands of applicants, it’s dogs eat dogs. When the elderly and more experienced have to move aside for the younger generations and do nothing, making them vulnerable. When an area is overpopulated and considered COVID high-risk, good neighbours turn into informants. The verdict of the trend now is that the majority would still choose saving themselves before others. Remember what the flight attendant always says in case of emergency ? Put your life jacket first before helping others.
One of the benefits of resilience that come from within is, it can save oneself without having to sacrifice others. Metaphorically speaking, Backgammon is a game where all you do is to try and keep blocking the other’s moves. A game played by blocking only is a game for those who are not brave enough for a healthy competition, and certainly won’t last long. But a strategy game of survival, like chess, is the true resilience, and true survival. And that is how we should build our post-COVID world to be future-proof resilient. Survival of the wittiest.
Choosing the right exercise program
Walking, aerobics, weights – so much to pick from
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