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N.J. parents to hold sit-in as teachers announce a few grades will return to classrooms
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Saturday, December 12,, 2020 - Sign from a rally by a group of South Orange Maplewood families to protest schools closed to in person learning..The rally is part of a national Rally to Open Schools Weekend happening in multiple locations around the country.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Some parents in the South Orange-Maplewood school district will be bringing their children to school on Friday morning, even though all classrooms remain closed.
An outdoor sit-in is being planned for the lawn by the Marshall Elementary School in South Orange, as district administrators and the teachers’ union continue to haggle over the K-12 district’s long-stalled reopening plan.
By ALIA C. COVEL
Rocio Lopez, SOMEA president
Rocio Lopez, SOMEA president
Credits: Rocio Lopez/Facebook
March 12, 2021 at 12:55 AM
MAPLEWOOD, NJ As community tensions mount in the back and forth saga of if and when teachers will return to the classroom for hybrid instruction, a parent may have taken things too far in public.
The South Orange-Maplewood Education Association (SOMEA), which represents the teachers of the South Orange Maplewood School District, released a statement yesterday saying that Rocio Lopez, union president, was “accosted and verbally abused” by a person “by someone who identified themselves as a parent” during her visit to get her second vaccine. This account has not been independently corroborated by TAPinto SOMA.
Students, parents stage sit-in on N.J. school lawn to protest a year of remote learning
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Kids chased each other across the lawn of Marshall Elementary School in South Orange, as others sat in picnic chairs and blankets, completing schoolwork on a balmy March morning.
“This is as close to school as our kids can get right now,” Kate Walker, a parent and co-leader of the community group SOMA for Safe Return to School, told NJ Advance Media.
Kept out of school since the pandemic began last March, students in the South Orange-Maplewood community have found themselves caught in the middle of a bitter and entrenched battle between the local school district and teachers’ union.