Billie Helean: Ponder ‘Teacher Appreciation Week’
Story by Submitted | May 1, 2021 | Columns, Opinion |
Billie Ann Helean
Teacher Appreciation Week is upon us as we near the end of one of the most-challenging school years anyone has ever faced.
This was a year beyond the wildest imagination of those who conceived of this well-earned recognition.
Teacher Appreciation Week began in 1953 when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt convinced Congress to approve a proclamation of National Teachers’ Day. In 1985, the National Parent Teacher Association established the first full week in May as Teacher Appreciation Week.
We continue to dedicate the first week of May to honor the work teachers do every day.
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By Adesina Wahab
Nigeria has the unenviable record of having the highest number of out-of-school children, OSC, in the world, it is currently put at over 15 million.
Also, the country is among the leaders in the Misery Index calculation, no thanks to a number of factors.
Misery Index is the measurement of the impact of unemployment, inflation, and other factors on a nation’s economy and the resultant effects on the lives of the citizens.
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, came out with some startling figures. Unemployment rose from 27.1% to 33.3% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
That translated to over 23 million Nigerians being out of job, while another 15 million are underemployed. Also,1.4 million people were added to the labour market between the second and third quarters of that year. The inflation rate is about 17%.
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Kane Area School District, spreading over 250 square miles in McKean and Elk Counties, has been holding in-person classes during the 2020-2021 school year, with the exception of ten and a half days when the district went online due to an uptick in COVID-19 cases and an additional eight days where high school students were remote.
The pandemic has made remote learning a reality. But despite logistical challenges and health risks, schools have endeavored to keep classrooms open.
Kane Area School District Superintendent Brock Benson said his community saw that as a common goal. He said students, staff and parents wanted in-person learning because the alternatives are just not the same.
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