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San Marcos students Jaden Lind (left) and Jordan Lind (right) have created a wifi fund campaign for the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Two brothers at San Marcos High, 17-year-old Jaden Lind and 15-year-old Jordan Lind, are used to giving back to both their own community and communities far away.
Seven years ago, Jordan wrote a letter to Santa asking for 20 blankets to distribute to the homeless in Santa Barbara, and this began their focus on helping those in need.
Just over a year ago, they traveled to India with their family and distributed holiday gifts at an orphanage.
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By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina | UPDATED
February 17, 2021
| 8:55 p.m.
Santa Barbara Unified School District teachers and staff sent a strongly worded letter Wednesday to Santa Barbara County officials asking to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible. We urge Santa Barbara County decision-makers to prioritize, with immediacy, the offering of vaccines to school personnel, Karen McBride, president of the Santa Barbara Teachers Association, and Paul Rooney, president of the California School Employees Association, wrote in the letter.
The letter notes the seriousness of asking teachers to return to classrooms without protection. As you are aware, SBUSD is poised to return to in-person learning for all students and staff across nine elementary schools as early as February 26 without vaccines, the letter states. This return to in-person learning will bring together, for the first time, hundreds of the 800 certificated and 750 classif
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Students are given the opportunity to grow musically and gain experience by working with district music teachers and local professional musicians. By strengthening this elementary level music experience, the BRAVO! music program is designed to provide a pathway for students to enroll and be successful in junior high and high school music ensembles. Santa Barbara Unified is thrilled to be partnering with the Santa Barbara Symphony again this school year to ensure that students deepen their love of music and instrumental proficiency,” said Sierra Loughridge, SBUSD, director of elementary education.
“This year, we worked closely with the symphony to adapt the Bravo After School Program into a virtual program, where students can work safely with professional symphony musicians, in instrument alike sectionals to increase their mastery of their chosen instruments, Loughridge said.
A group of parents drove by the Santa Barbara Unified School District office and honked their horns Tuesday afternoon, in support of reopening the school for in-person learning.