Principal Brandice Heckert’s note comes days after an incident that was described by Adrien McDonald, the athletic director at the McLean School in Potomac, on his Facebook page...
Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have spiked over 400% over the last several weeks as students have moved back into the College Park area for the beginning of online instruction, the university’s student-run newspaper The Diamondback reported...
...As a result, white liberalism breeds a culture of implicit racism and performative wokeness.
Growing up in Bethesda, Maryland, I’ve experienced this phenomenon firsthand...
...In addition, white people think simply claiming the label of “progressive” or “Democrat” is sufficient to show that they are not racist...
https://dbknews.com/2020/09/04/white-progressive-antiracist-montgomery-country/
MILFORD MILL, Md. —
The Baltimore office of the FBI warns that complaints about cybercrimes against children are up more than 250% in the city alone, and nationwide, they said the numbers are staggering.
"To highlight the amount of complaints that are coming in, we are literally drowning in them," said Matt Vilcek, supervisory special agent for the Violent Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Unit...
In her first full week of fourth grade, she has already cried twice because her head hurt from squinting at the screen.
“It’s painful to watch,” said Barnett, who lives in Pennsylvania.
Headaches, anxiety and exhaustion caused by never-ending video meetings are no longer exclusively for adults trying to work from home during the pandemic. Some schools have started the fall semester with remote-learning setups that mimic what a full day of school was like before the coronavirus crisis...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/04/screentime-school-distance/
...The move appears to contradict the plan Hogan outlined in April. That plan listed entertainment venues, larger social and religious gatherings, and high-capacity bars and restaurants as “high-risk.” According to the plan, high-risk businesses can’t open without “either a widely available and FDA-approved vaccine or safe and effective therapeutics that can rescue patients with significant disease or prevent serious illness in those most at risk to reach a full return to normal conditions.”
Asked about this discrepancy during Tuesday’s press conference, Hogan said things have changed since the spring.
“The plan has changed a lot since April when we put that out,” Hogan said. “We've already opened a number of phase three things in phase two, and we did a number of phase two things in phase one. So it’s an evolving process.”..
The University of California must immediately suspend all use of SAT and ACT test scores for admission and scholarship decisions under a preliminary injunction issued by an Alameda County Superior Court judge.
The ruling came in a lawsuit asserting that the use of standardized test scores is broadly biased — and particularly detrimental to students with disabilities who seek to take the test during the coronavirus crisis.
Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman said in his Monday ruling that plaintiffs had shown sufficient cause to stop the tests for now because applicants with disabilities had virtually no access to test-taking sites or legally required accommodations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The barriers faced by students with disabilities have been greatly exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic, which has disrupted test-taking locations, closed schools and limited access to school counselors,” Seligman wrote.
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