Major Dallas Suburb Suggests Virtual Learning Again With COVID Spike
On 8/3/21 at 11:34 PM EDT
A school district in one of Dallas largest suburbs is considering a return to remote learning for some students due to the rise of COVID-19 cases.
On Tuesday, Frisco Independent School District (ISD) announced that they will be offering an online learning option for students up to grade 6. This option will be available for the first nine weeks of school and will be reevaluated and extended as necessary, until a vaccine is available for children under the age of 12.
The virtual learning option is not available for kids in grades 7-12 due to the vaccine being available for kids 12 years or older.
Call off the search. Cancel the all-points bulletin. The Abilene Christian University Police Department has found its man.
Jason Ellis, a lieutenant in the Frisco Police Department in the Fort Worth-Dallas area, will start as chief of the department in July, the university said in a news release Monday.
He has 23 years of policing experience, with more than 16 of those in management and leadership roles, the university said. We were impressed with his leadership, innovative ideas and how quickly he built a strong rapport with those he interacted with, Kevin Campbell, senior vice president for operations, said in the release. Jason lives and believes in our mission and culture.
“In October, we found out that there are Title-I schools in our community. We felt those kids deserved more books and the opportunity to get new books to help them grow as future readers and leaders,” Reddi said.
The organization enlisted the help of friends, family and the community and was able to raise $30,000. They then used that money to buy 7,000 Disney books from a distributor. Those books were donated to the 10, Title-I schools in the Frisco Independent School District.
“I feel like when you read, you learn more about the world around you. You grow your ambition and dreams. I think that is a really powerful tool and I think ultimately, all of those things help kids become better leaders in the future,” Reddi said.
Tom Carroll, superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, advocates for in-person education on ‘Fox & Friends.’
With Democrats barreling ahead in using the parliamentary tactic of budget reconciliation to advance their coronavirus relief agenda, top Senate Republicans indicated Wednesday they plan to hammer President Biden and his party over the slow reopening of schools across the country.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and others attacked Democrats over their alliance with teachers unions, which have offered widespread resistance to efforts to get kids back in classrooms. The unions, they said, have done significant harm to children all while pushing patently unreasonable demands.
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For mental health support related to COVID-19, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or text 741741 from anywhere in the country to text with a trained crisis counselor.
One evening in early October, 11-year-old Jordan typed the following into a Google document:
“give me 10 GOOD reasons why I shuldnt kill myself here
Share here:”
No reasons were listed.
Those words set off a cascade of actions. Since Jordan was using a school-issued computer, the Frisco Independent School District’s technology department flagged it for counselors. Jordan’s mother, Candice, was notified by the counselor at Jordan’s middle school the next morning before she left for work, who recommended she take him to get help.