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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

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Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. FAAFP, is a family physician, clinical instructor for UMass Medical School and author of “ The Ultimate College Student Health Handbook.” Jill Grimes, M.D., Jill Henry, M.A.,

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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. — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”. Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school.