Memphis teacher speaks out about the unsafe return to in-person instruction will be holding a weekly meeting. The WSWS encourages teachers from across the state to
to discuss the unsafe reopening of all Tennessee school districts.
On March 8, Shelby County Schools (SCS) in Tennessee completed its return to in-person classes for all grades. The school district serves the Memphis metro region and is the largest district in the state, as well as the 25th largest in the US, with roughly 111,000 students.
The reopening of SCS schools also marks the complete reopening of all districts across Tennessee, despite the continued spread of COVID-19 throughout the region. In order to force the reopening, Republican Governor Bill Lee threatened to withhold school funding to districts that remained completely virtual, with SCS and Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) specifically being targeted.
Two dead after 26-year-old mother jumps off Tennessee overpass holding infant
A ghastly event that took place in the early morning hours of Monday, January 4 just north of Jackson, Tennessee, highlights the degree of social misery and despair that has overtaken untold numbers of the world’s population amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Around 12:30 a.m. local time, callers from the gas station northeast of Jackson, in the western part of the state, informed 911 dispatchers that a woman had just tried to crash her car into a gas pump. Then, calls came in from witnesses saying the woman exited the vehicle carrying a child and proceeded to walk to the edge of the nearby overpass before disappearing from sight.