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Let public health expertise guide school reopenings
As long as schools are taking adequate safety precautions, superintendents should continue steadily reopening school systems.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated December 17, 2020, 4:00 a.m.
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A child holds a sign that reads, I can t learn from a screen, during a rally held in Boston Sunday afternoon to demand in-person services in safe spaces for students with high needs.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
As evidence mounts that schools can reopen without worsening the coronavirus pandemic â and that keeping them shut has stunted the educations of millions of children â Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius is working to restore more in-person education across the city. For her efforts, sheâs received furious pushback from the teachers union. But as long as schools are taking adequate safety precautions â as determined by public health officials â she should continue steadily reop
Amherst educators join other teacher unions in criticizing state handling of pandemic
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
At issue is the difficulties faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement releases earlier this week, the Amherst union leadership said, “the Amherst-Pelham Education Association’s Representative Council voted overwhelmingly to declare ‘no confidence in the judgment or professional leadership capabilities of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and its Commissioner Jeff Riley.’ In doing so, the APEA educators stand together with over 100 other educator unions across the state that have expressed their dismay at Riley’s leadership during this pandemic.”
Massachusetts Teachers Association President Merrie Najimy told The Republican that “educators’ unions, like all unions, have an obligation to stand up for the health and safety of their members. Defending the health of our members also protects our students, their families and
Will a shift in learning models help lower the rising rates of depression, suicide among children in Massachusetts?
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
As Massachusetts health officials face the latest surge of coronavirus cases, pediatricians are warning of a growing health crisis in children.
A panel of doctors and child advocates spoke before the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Tuesday about the worsening mental health of school-aged children. The discussion was held just before a vote about proposed changes to K-12 learning across the state to increase the amount of face time students have with teachers. The amendment passed, 7-4.
“We have to recognize this one truth: We’re going to lose more kids to suicide than COVID,” Dr. Mathieu Bermingham, the medical director of children services of Roxbury and a consultant to the Department of the Mental Health in early childhood mental health, told board members Tuesday.