To the editor:
All children deserve to go to school and feel safe and supported. For many of us, school offers a safe space where we are encouraged to learn and explore our strengths, get to socialize with our friends, even imagine our futures. However, as Black and brown youth, we also have to deal with feelings of anxiety, discomfort and fear that we are being carefully watched.
These feelings follow us from our communities and don’t disappear when we are inside our schools. Unfortunately, our schools spend thousands of dollars to surveil and criminalize us in our learning environments.
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Officials visited T.C. Williams High School students in the classroom on the first day of hybrid learning for many students at Alexandria City Public Schools. (Emily Leayman/Patch)
ALEXANDRIA, VA On Tuesday, Alexandria City Public Schools brought back its largest group of students to the classrooms for hybrid learning. Smaller groups of students had returned on March 2 and 9.
Students enrolled in hybrid learning are receiving two days of in-person instruction per week and the rest through virtual means. T.C. Williams High School Principal Peter Balas told reporters about 475 students were expected to return to the high school on Tuesday. For the school district as a whole, Superintendent Gregory Hutchings Jr. said just below 4,000 students returned to classrooms on Tuesday.
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