Just wanted to be able to use that headline
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School’s out for summer! Schools out forever!
by Village 14 | Apr 21, 2020 | Newton | 10 comments
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Just wanted to be able to use that headline
and link to this video:
Crazy Divers: Men be like...
drivers man be like
I have a high school senior who realized that there will be no graduation, no friends signing year books, and all the other signs of being a senior.
I think about how much he has witnessed in life: First grade – Newtown, CT shooting, Fifth Grade – Marathon Bombing, Senior Year – pandemic. Another child his age has referred to this generation as the shooting generation. They were all born after 9/11.
Some lovely thoughts from the Governor on that topic in his most recent briefing here: https://youtu.be/vU7DWq7Vk3o Excerpt: “To all the [high school] seniors, you should keep your heads up. The end of the year may not proceed as planned, but there will be, because there always are, brighter days ahead.”
@all: Governor should have given local school districts the OK to make their own call. We have pretty good data on “hot spots,” and we’ve all learned social distancing. The statistics that the state is putting out online appears to show declining cases, and hospitalizations. We have not laid off School Department personnel, and innovative ways of going back to school could be accomplished. Possibly, we send just the elementary schools back to allow families to return to normal, or we allow the High Schools to go back, etc. Parents not willing to send their children could continue at home programs. To listen to the Mayor of Boston and throw in the towel will not serve the best interests of our community. This can only be a “one shot” deal that let the medical world catch up, and now that they’re getting up to par, we can start things up. From our family experiences to date, three of our children in professional positions have lost their jobs and have been told there will be no return for the next several years!!!
How are special education students receiving their services as mandated by their IEPs? I’ve been wondering that.
We knew this was coming. But it still feels really sad.
@NR I think NPS hasn’t figured out IEPs fully. We aren’t quite getting the support we need, but now that we definitely know that we have almost two months of virtual learning ahead I hope they can figure out how to implement the IEPs virtually.
#NewtonMom — somehow I hadn’t realized before that the Class of 2020 had that combination of shared experiences. I know people in the college admissions field, and over the years they’ve read a lot of essays from prospective students: There are graduating classes in which many of the students have overwhelmingly pointed to, say, the Challenger explosion, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, or Columbine, etc., as milestones that shaped their understanding of the world.
Of course, we all have those kinds of shared experiences: My high school graduating class often cited the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the moon walk and Watergate as the formative major events of their childhood development.
Best of luck to your son, and hope his post-high school life will find a better route, eventually. Is he going to college? Gap year?
@Jim, have we really learned social distancing?
Jim – Despite knowing this announcement was coming, everyone felt a sense of sadness yesterday once it became a reality. However, the safety of students and staff comes first and the governor got this one right. Viruses don’t give a hoot about city/town boundaries.
Are we protecting people or just postponing the inevitable? What’s the plan?
I echo the TWT’s sentiment. Some people seem convinced that social distancing isn’t a viable and preventive method. It would be sheer disaster to open NPS.