DEAR MONTCLAIRVOYANT,
Sincerely,
Stop the Presses!
Both matters are important enough to discuss simultaneously, so I’ll overlay one Q&A atop another on the phones and computer screens of each of my readers. Going on a scotch-tape run; back soon.
DEAR MONTCLAIRVOYANT,
Sincerely,
It Takes Two to Tangle
The district is being too harsh. With various vaccines out there, I think hybrid should wait until teachers and school staff get their shots. And I don’t stand anywhere when I write; I sit.
DEAR MONTCLAIRVOYANT,
Sincerely,
A Side of Beef
There’s certainly a split, with many wanting hybrid and many wanting to stay remote for now. But I think everyone would unite if Montclair were invaded by Cedar Grove.
N.J. school district files suit to force teachers back to in-person classes, calls union opposition ‘illegal strike’
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
The Montclair School District has filed suit against the union that represents its teachers, the Montclair Education Association, over the union’s decision to not have elementary teachers return to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit aims to get teachers back into school buildings by barring the union from organizing its members to refuse in-person learning.
The suit, filed Tuesday, comes after schools did not reopen for in-person learning as they were scheduled to on Jan. 18 due to a shortage of staff. Both sides have reported continued negotiations since then. But, the suit called the actions of the education association, “an illegal strike...which prevents the public school district from educating its students in person as required.”
Teen falls into 10-month coma before pandemic, wakes up to new world
Joseph Flavill slipped out of one world and woke up in another. On March 1, 2020, when the 19-year-old was struck by a car in central England, the United Kingdom had recorded just 23 cases of a concerning new virus. The vast majority of COVID-19 infections were still confined to China, and the United States had confirmed just one death.
Now, the teenager has begun to emerge from a 10-month coma, elating his family but confronting them with a new question: How do you explain a year like no other?
Animal Care Center in Manhattan shut down due to COVID
In the meantime if you see MEA members posting on social
media their holiday gatherings, trips and outings to restaurants with multiple families like I do – let them know that it’s this very behavior that keeps schools from opening. And it’s that behavior that spreads the disease and kills. The reason schools won’t be safe is because of people’s inability to adhere to the CDC guidelines. Some pay the price for others. Is New Zealand taking guests? Nah, they don’t want Americans.
Montclair Public
So…you saw a couple of social media posts of teachers allegedly celebrating the holidays with family and on the basis of such empirical evidence, it’s the MEA’s fault that the virus has massively spiked and schools can’t open. In any language — French, English, Trumpese — that’s rich.