Priority for In-Class Learning

Under applicable guidelines, the District said the maximum number of students allowed in each building are as follows: JEH 172; Chute 466, Dawes 354, Dewey 359, Haven 556, King Arts 388, Kingsley 275, Lincoln 486, Lincolnwood 291, Nichols 418, Oakton 335, Orrington 303, Park 181, Bessie Rhodes 343, Walker 276, Washington 416, and Willard 297.

Historically, the enrollment at each school significantly exceeds these numbers.

The second factor that may impact enrollment in on-site learning is the number of teachers who are willing to teach on site, due to concerns about being infected by COVID-19. Some teachers may have a concern based on their own risk factors or of people in their household. At this point it appears that the District is honoring teachers’ decisions on whether to teach on-site or not.

Dr. Horton said the District is not setting teachers up to say, “You must come back.”

Latarsha Green, Deputy Superintendent, said that one of the District’s task forces considered what the District should do in the event more students applied to take on-site learning than there were available slots. She said the task force and administrators decided to give the following categories of students a priority: “students receiving free or reduced lunch, Black and Brown students, students who received an I [Incomplete] or less than 50% on their report cards, emerging bilinguals, and students with IEPs. There are also other categories in relation to students who are not performing according to reading or math grade-level expectations, and students with no comorbidity factors.”

Dr. Horton said in terms of prioritizing, “we'll be targeting our dependent learners. Those are students that are marginalized first, as far as how we will serve them.

“We are in a pandemic,” Dr. Horton continued. “And we also know that everyone is affected by this differently. But there was a pandemic before this. That was inequity and racism, and classism and all of these other things. And so I just want to make sure that as we're making a decision – no decision is going to make everyone happy – we understand that. We're trying to support every single child to the best of our ability, and we can't allow a political cash train to take over our decision-making regarding how we return our students to school. We have to make sure that students who've been oppressed, that we don't continue to oppress them and that we give them opportunity.

“I've heard for quite some time that this is a community that's about equity for Black and Brown students, for special education students, for LGBTQ students. We know that this is important work, and we're going to prioritize that.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40731074)

Latarsha Green, Deputy Superintendent

Latarsha Green, Deputy Superintendent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40731095)

libs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40731263)

Thus they will ban Churches while letting liquor stores, abortion clinics, and marijuana dispensaries continue operating. They will ban any speech that might show HCQ as a potentially good drug for COVID because it might help Trump. They will allow their voters to riot and protest while forcing their political opponents to remain shut in. They will sit there and state on television that violent riots are peaceful and we just have to sit there and eat shit.

Again, we are in a civil war and only one side is fighting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40731265)

You can knock John Roberts all you want, but he's the one who wrote "[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40733228)

Chief Justice John Roberts - "Yeah, I'm reading that as the government can force churches to close but keep casinos open"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4600676&forum_id=2#40733717)