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District officials had been demanding some teachers return to school buildings Monday, ahead of a planned return of up to 9,000 young children on Feb. 22.
Philly Teachers Bundle Up to Teach Outdoors in Back-to-the-Classroom Battle NBC10 Staff
Two teacher bundle up in winter clothing teach virtually outdoors
Philadelphia public school teachers bundled up in winter coats, gloves and hats sat outside on folding chairs on a bitter cold Monday morning as a show of solidarity over concerns about coronavirus safety amid a planned return to classrooms.
It was blistering cold outside the Southwark School in South Philadelphia as teachers taught online classes outside. Teaching outside for safety inside, one of the teacher s signs said.
The protest scene played out at other schools around Philadelphia as the public teachers union showed solidarity and went against an order to report inside school buildings to prepare for the return to partial in-person learning.
Philadelphia Teachers Protest Schools Reopening Over COVID-19 Fears, ‘Unsafe Conditions’ At Buildings
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – For the first time in a year, teachers returned to Henry A. Brown Elementary School in Kensington Monday, but they never walked through the doors. Instead, they demonstrated outside calling out the district for its reopening plans.
“We’re being told not to gather in small groups just yet and to send educators and students back into school goes against everything our government is telling us to do right now,” parent Lauren Stichter said.
Stichter is the mother of a 4th grader at the school. While she says she wants Shirley to return to class, she’s more concerned with her health.
(Bloomberg) Two major U.S. school districts made progress toward getting children back in the classroom this weekend after tensions among parents, teachers and school districts about coronavirus safety measures threatened to boil over. On Sunday, Chicago announced a tentative agreement with teachers on a timetable to restart in-person classes later than the city had proposed, avoiding the prospect of an imminent strike. Unions representing San Francisco United School District employees announced a preliminary deal to resume in-person class. The city had sued its own school district to try and force the schools to reopen, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.Despite the progress, in some cities local officials are still pitted against teacher unions on how and whether it’s safe to have teachers and students in the classroom after, in some cases, almost a year of remote learning designed to thwart the spread of coronavirus. Philadelphia’s teachers’ union has told m