School Reopenings

NYU Students Are Receiving Venmo Payments From Strangers In Response To The Quarantine Food Debacle
A first-year undergrad told BuzzFeed News she's received "a couple hundred dollars" from people who watched her depressing TikToks.

23 More Pictures Of In-Person Learning That Teachers Want The Entire World To See
The reality is a bit jarring.

UNC Canceled In-Person Classes This Week. Some Students Say They Should Have Never Returned To Campus.
“The option to have in-person classes should not have been presented to the students to begin with,” a student at the Chapel Hill campus told BuzzFeed News.

Online School Is Highlighting Silicon Valley’s Gaping Income Inequality
An entire semester of remote learning isn’t ideal for any student, but adjusting to this new reality will be much more difficult for some families than for others — even in Silicon Valley, the world’s technology capital.

An Arizona School District Canceled All Its Classes After Teachers Staged A Sickout Over Coronavirus Fears
The J.O. Combs Unified School District canceled all its classes, including virtual lessons, after many teachers said they would not return to classrooms citing coronavirus concerns.

21 Things That Are Apparently Supposed To Keep Kids And Teachers Safe In School
Not sure how to feel about this.

Coronavirus Testing In Hot Spot States Is Declining — And Nobody Knows Why. That’s Bad.
“I think we should be very concerned,” one epidemiologist in Texas said.

A Georgia School District Has To Quarantine More Than 900 People Over Fears Of Coronavirus Exposure
A week after reopening its schools, the Cherokee County School District mandated a two-week quarantine for 925 students and staff following coronavirus cases.

Teachers At The Georgia School District That Went Viral For Crowded Hallway Photos Are Afraid For Their Health
The mask wars continue in the Paulding County School District, with a contentious school board meeting that featured people with masks and those without them yelling at each other.

Two Students Say They Were Suspended From Their Georgia High School For Posting Photos Of Crowded Hallways
The images of students packed together in hallways went viral on Twitter as the school faces scrutiny from staff and students.


The Truth Behind A Viral Picture Of A Reopening School Is Worse Than It Looked
An alarming photo of a hallway crowded by mostly maskless students in a Georgia high school raises issues with reopening schools all around the country.

20 Tweets About Reopening Schools All Teachers And Non-Teachers Need To Read
Something to think about.

Teachers Are Organizing To Protest School Reopenings Before The Coronavirus Is Under Control
Teachers who organized massive protests and strikes in 2018 are planning new activism to protest how their states and school districts are handling the coronavirus.

Trump Made School Reopenings An Election Issue. The Voters He Needs Just Don’t Agree With Him.
In suburban western Wisconsin, voters were unusually nuanced about how realistic Trump’s push to reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic really is.

Back To School: Teachers Are Ready To Quit Rather Than Put Their Lives At Risk
“Most parents have no idea how bad this is going to be.”