As our students and staff continue to interact at an appropriate distance in our buildings and on our athletic fields, we must redouble our efforts to be aware of our surroundings and to continue to ensure that protocols are followed.
A few days after my daughter started kindergarten, I learned about Unity Day. It sounded innocent enough. It turned out it was much more than students wearing orange on the same day as if they were part of the Bolshevik Revolution.
I want you to know that for every person being nasty and unkind about teachers, there are hundreds more who value all that you’re doing for our children and communities.
Maryland high schools may soon be required to adopt a curriculum on gambling addiction, depending on the fate of one bill in the state legislature.
SB0243, sponsored by Sen. Bryan Simonaire, R-Anne Arundel, directs the Maryland State Department of Education to develop a program for local schools to teach high school students the dangers of gambling.
Local school districts would have the option to use an existing gambling curriculum or to establish a new curriculum, according to Simonaire.
“From a governmental policy standpoint, the state receives money from gambling revenues that can be used to help other priorities in our state, but also adversely enables many citizens to become gambling addicts, which creates other issues for the state,” he told Capital News Service.
Families and guardians of Anne Arundel County Public School students have until Sunday to make a final choice on whether they want their student to continue virtual education 4.5 days a week, or switch to hybrid learning if it becomes available, which includes two days of in-person instruction and 2.5 days of virtual learning.