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Two parents sued the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District last week, alleging that the district has violated state law by failing to provide in-person learning this school year.
La Mesa-Spring Valley is one of multiple San Diego County districts that have offered only distance learning instruction to most students since the pandemic began last year.
The parent plaintiffs, Spring Vick and David Hargenburger, said in their complaint that distance learning has been “less effective, inaccessible, inadequate, unnecessary, inconsistent with the law, and in too many cases, very harmful to district students and families.”
The complaint cites state education law which says that school districts must “offer in-person instruction to the greatest extent possible.” The parents said that means the district must have offered at least some in-person instruction to all students.
San Diego schools have now been closed for an entire year This is a bigger challenge than anything I thought I d ever experience in my lifetime, said Tony Thurmond, California s Superinendent of Schools. Author: Shannon Handy (Reporter) Updated: 6:30 PM PDT March 15, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. This week marks one year since the majority of schools in San Diego County shut down due to the pandemic.
The past 365 days have been a challenging time for students, parents, administrators and teachers.
When schools first shut down, many people thought it would only be for a few weeks. This is a bigger challenge than anything I thought I d ever experience in my lifetime, California’s Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond said, at the time.
Parents witness angry school trustee conclude everyone is racist
Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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Parents who watched an online school board meeting hoping to hear an update on in-person learning got to witness much more: A school board trustee snapped at the superintendent and at fellow school board members, mocked the parents, and finally concluded that everyone is racist.
Charda Bell-Fontenot, the school board vice president for La Mesa-Spring Valley, made a string of questionable comments to fellow trustees while they discussed the issue of reopening schools during a virtual board meeting.
The trustees were planning to discuss a reopening date for La-Mesa Spring Valley to return to in-person learning, and that issue predictably drew hundreds of parents to watch the live meeting online.
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