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Resistance builds to school reopenings in Seattle-Tacoma metro region
Major districts in the Seattle metro region are beginning to phase in students for in-person instruction throughout the next month. These plans are being implemented as part of the Biden administration’s drive to reopen all US schools by the end of April, which is supported at every level of government in order to maximize the production of profits in the broader economy.
On February 16, Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee encouraged school districts to reopen on the basis of the new politically-motivated CDC guidelines which falsely state that schools can operate safely without teacher vaccinations and at “any level of community transmission.”
BY AGUEDA PACHECO FLORES / CROSSCUT
Originally published Feb. 3, 2021 on Crosscut.com
Alexandra Olin needs her 12-year-old son to go back to school. On the phone, Olin sounds exasperated, tired and fed up as she talks through her experience this past year.
Besides online learning being extremely sedentary, Olin says, children can’t be expected to sit online for hours and have perfect impulse control. She discovered her son, for example, was often “multitasking” last fall, with a video game open on one window and his remote class session open on another.
She has talked to her son about this and hopes the practice has stopped, but even parents in the same space have only so much control over their teens and preteens.
Bellevue teachers' stance on returning to in-person learning dissolves as the school district officially moves forward bringing their youngest students back to classrooms this week.
General school assistant Vicki Premo, right, checks in second-grade student Cora on Thursday, January 21, 2021, as second-grade students returned to in-person learning at Somerset Elementary School in Bellevue. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer
Bellevue School District and teachers union reach in-person learning deal, but tensions linger By
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Some students in Bellevue School District were back in the classroom Tuesday after a tense debate about reopening the district s schools.
The district and the Bellevue Education Association reached an agreement regarding in-person learning late Monday night that allows students in kindergarten through second grade to attend school in-person for the first time since last March, although on a slightly longer time frame.