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After a three-week hiatus from in-person learning undertaken to address an anticipated post-holiday surge in coronavirus infections and districtwide staffing challenges Newport-Mesa Unified School District is moving ahead with its plan to reopen middle and high school campuses on Monday.
Board members decided last month that secondary schools would return to distance learning at the start of the spring semester on Jan. 4 for a three-week period. The plan was to bring students back to campuses on Monday to resume learning under a partially in-person hybrid model.
With that date looming, and with Orange County coronavirus cases subsiding from recent record-breaking highs, Newport-Mesa Supt. Russell Lee-Sung on Friday announced middle and high school students were to report back to classes Monday.
After a three-week hiatus from in-person learning, Newport-Mesa Unified School District is moving ahead with its plan to reopen middle and high school campuses starting Monday.
Huntington Beach district returning from winter break to all distance learning [The Orange County Register]
Jan. 1 The Huntington Beach Union High School District will temporarily return to 100% distance learning when its classes resume Monday after the winter break.
The school district announced the decision Thursday.
Distance learning will remain its exclusive method of education through the end of the semester, Jan. 29. Students had been learning under a hybrid of some in-person instruction and some distance learning.
The rate of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Orange County has been increasing in recent weeks and several school boards have recently made the same or similar decisions.
It’s been tough for students this year.
With schools closing in March and remaining that way through much of the rest of the calendar year, parents, teachers and students have grappled with what is the best way to learn in the midst of a pandemic and how to bring kids back into classrooms safely.
But, in spite of the obstacles, people have found ways to still celebrate the accomplishments of their children this year.
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Corona del Mar High School was closed, along with all other Newport-Mesa Unified School District campuses, in March. Secondary schools didn’t reopen until November.
This past November, many people in Huntington Beach knew we were in trouble when Tito Ortiz was not only elected to the City Council but subsequently installed as mayor pro tem. Just as many knew we were in trouble when Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 and was subsequently elected president.
Neither has any respect for political and social norms. Neither has any respect for anyone but himself. We have paid for the latter’s disrespect for the system. We should not have to pay for the former if Ortiz continues to thumb his maskless nose at our community and its best interests.