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The shopkeeper lends teachers desks and shares their wifi to show support. A teacher said: "Getting (their) support...it makes us feel that we are doing the right thing."

AVONDALE — When Diane Castro, a preschool teacher at Lorca Elementary School, was ordered to return to the classroom earlier this month, she showed up — but only for one day.

Castro said that after seeing the school lacked basic supplies, such as properly installed masks and disinfectants, she returned to distance learning. She said that her parents also shared their concerns with her.

She said, "I saw what I needed to see." "I'm just not safe. I don't think that is the best case. I can't do that to children. This is not the experience they deserve."

Castro is a group of people in the northwest

Protests against the school's reopening plan on Thursday are the latest protests in recent days.

In the 2800 and 2900 blocks of North Milwaukee Avenue, teachers and several shop owners organized the Avondale protest. The shop owner lent the teacher foldable tables and chairs and shared their wifi to show support.

Thursday’s action was a few hours later

The teachers there will refuse to work at the school, but will continue to teach online from Monday. Most ordinary teachers will have to vote to approve the plan for it to take effect. Teachers will vote on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The "Work from Home" campaign will begin on the first day of kindergarten, when the eighth grade teachers plan to return to the classroom before the students return on February 1.

Union leaders have long believed that it is not safe to reopen schools because the city continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, while district leader and mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the reopening, saying it It will help disadvantaged families and students who fall behind due to distance learning.

The teachers working on the sidewalk in Avondale on Thursday echoed the concerns raised by other teachers in the past few days. They said that it is not safe to return to the classroom because the city continues to fight the epidemic, and they criticized the area for failing to provide teachers and administrators with the materials they need to protect themselves, students and their families from Viral infection.

But they also said that local shop owners helped them set up desks outside the business, and neighbors gave up hand warmers and breakfast sandwiches while working, which encouraged them.

Rebecca Reddicliffe, who teaches second-year students at Brentano Elementary School, works outside of Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa's office in District 35, 2934 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Reddicliffe stood in front of her temporary desk holding a stuffed animal to keep warm. She said it was “great” to see the community strengthen and express support for this effort that has affected many Chicago families.

She said: “I think many people in our community can see that it’s not time to look back now.” “In order to ensure the safety of our community, we must ensure the safety of the school. We are all connected.”

Down the block, more educators wearing red union teachers work outside other stores.

A special education teacher who did not want to be named was called the store owner’s support "amazing".

She said: "Getting (their) support...it makes us feel that we are doing the right thing."

The teacher said that distance learning “may be really lonely. This is a way for us to return to the community.”

She said: "We want the community to know that this is for them, not just about us."

Castro, a teacher at Lorca Elementary School, said that given that small businesses have been hit hard during the pandemic, it makes sense for small business owners to choose to support teachers.

Sharing their wifi and loan tables is the least they can do to support teachers who are indispensable to the communities they serve.

Castro said: "The fact that they have always stood with us and supported us is incredible. It empowers me, is uplifting, and promotes my determination."

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Logan Square, Humboldt Park and Avondale reporter

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that parents should take their kindergarten from eighth grade back to school starting Tuesday.

The district urged on Monday to open a kindergarten school for eighth graders, but there is still no agreement between the two parties.

But the city’s curfew on non-essential businesses will end and they will be allowed to serve more customers at once.

This group was formed after the removal of Christopher Columbus statues this summer, and there is no public list or advice on how to deal with these artworks.

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Middle/high school students in Olathe Handicraft Class are setting up 24 tables for OMHS and Olathe Elementary School. These tables were purchased through a grant from the Colorado Trust Foundation to provide an outdoor learning space for students during and after the pandemic.

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Thanks to the $15,000 grant from The Colorado Trust, Olathe Junior High/High School and Olathe Elementary School will soon become outdoor learning places. The Olathe School Outdoor Learning Project began to allow Olathe Elementary School and Olathe Middle School and High School to provide outdoor learning to students during COVID-19.

The "Making a Better Life" (MOB) team led the grant application process, and once MOB leaders and school leaders identified the challenges of supporting students' educational needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the application would lose its competitiveness.

MOB started in 2016 with community partnership grants provided by The Colorado Trust. The Olathe community group receives and manages grants annually. According to the Colorado Trust's website, the foundation has developed a grant process based on its community partnership approach to promote health equity.

In the project description submitted to the trust foundation, the foundation stated: “The funds will be used to purchase curtains, tables and chairs for outdoor learning, and provide covered spaces to protect people entering the school from being forced Wait for the temperature. Please check before entering."

"In the last year, we realized that due to COVID-19 restrictions, our school has some needs. In August and September, we met with the school principal, interviewed parents and teachers, and learned that the school can learn from some outdoor Lynette Rowland, the coordinator of the MOB at the table, said: “So, we are an intermediary between the school and the trust to get the money for the equipment. Some people in the community and Olathe Town also donated money for this, buying a total of 8 outdoor shades and 24 tables. "

This grant is used to purchase four curtains measuring 20 feet by 20 feet by 20 feet for $125 per lesson, six tables for Olathe High School chairs, $500 each, 18 tables for Olathe Elementary School chairs, Each is $500, there are four colors to choose from on OES and OMHS, each price is $300.

The Ministry of Commerce received the news of the grant in November 2020.

The community also intervened in schools supporting the project.

Scot Brown, the head of OMHS, said: “In addition to receiving grants, we also received many donations from local residents and businesses for the project.” “In addition, we were able to cooperate with local businesses in Olathe. , Get a table and an awning."

Currently, students participating in arts and crafts courses are preparing tables for OMHS and OES. Brown expects the table will be in place in the next few weeks.

Brown said: "The tables and shadows will be placed in the quadrilateral outside the cafeteria, so that students can eat outside or teachers have classes outside." "When we screen before school, the sun shade will be activated for students in inclement weather. This will enable students, if they need to wait to be screened, to avoid rain and snow when they need it."

The principal of Olathe Elementary School, Beth Kusar, said that the school’s new dining table will be set up throughout the campus.

She said: "The new table will be placed under our big tent. In addition to lunch on the grass outside the cafeteria, it will also provide seating for outdoor classrooms."

OES staff also use four large pop-up tents at the COVID-19 screening station on campus.

Kusar said: "If it rains or snows and we can't safely put them all into the auditorium in the lobby, they can wait outside outside the pop-up tents that are still spaced apart."

These new outdoor learning spaces will enable teachers to engage students in the curriculum while maintaining social distancing during the pandemic, and continue to provide a unique learning environment for years to come.

"Especially during this time, the outside is everything," Kusar said. "Students can wear masks to rest and enjoy the sun. Tables, benches and pop-up tents can be used permanently on OES-not just now. Teachers are excited about the idea of ​​having an outdoor classroom."

Brown added that how students request more learning opportunities outdoors, the school will continue to expand the space later this spring.

He said: “Students like outdoor sports instead of staying indoors all day.” Having an outdoor learning space provides teachers with a variety of options to attract students and change their learning/teaching style.

"Students are asking for more opportunities to study outdoors when the weather is clear, and to truly enjoy outdoor activities during school hours. We will add trees and benches later this spring to further improve the outdoor learning area. Outdoor learning area It will be a safe outdoor area where students and teachers will enjoy learning and teaching."

Both Kusar and Brown expressed gratitude to the MOB and Olathe communities for their support and partnership on this project.

Roland said that during the pandemic, MOB must support Olathe School because many young people in the community have been adversely affected by health equity issues, and this problem has worsened as the pandemic increases.

Rowland said: "We believe that all efforts to support schools to make schools easier, more convenient and fairer are not only a victory for our students, but also for the entire community." "We hope to buy this outdoor equipment. It can make it easier for schools to conduct boarding checks in inclement weather, and to conduct classroom learning outdoors when the weather permits, so that local students can learn by themselves."

Lauren Brant is a senior writer and digital content coordinator for the Montrose Journal.

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Boycott Toym Imao’s towering bamboo and chair barricades to commemorate the Diliman Commune in 1971 suddenly became a powerful symbol of the Philippine University’s resistance to neoliberal siege, as the country abolished the convention with the Ministry of Defense in 1989. . --Neo Jesus Orbetta

Manila, Philippines — The history of the University of the Philippines (UP) is full of encounters, but not the kind of underground warfare that the military believes is boiling in its multi-layered walls.

Just as the Diliman Commune in 1971 made UP a reputation for being a self-sufficient republic, these "en" are actually resistance actions against national forces trying to reduce the security space of UP.

This is what the famous sculptor and painter Toym Imao thought of when he created "engKWENTrO", a two-part art installation project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the student movement, which prompted people to take action against the dictator Ferdinand Marcos After decades of resistance.

The first and larger one, "Barikada" formed two towering bamboo and chair barricades along Quezon Hall. These two communes are the ground zero and the seat of UP's power. It symbolizes the same chair and desk barricade that protested against the same chair and desk that students set up 50 years ago to prohibit students from entering the campus.

On the night they finished setting up roadblocks, Imao learned that Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana unilaterally abolished the 1989 UP-DND (Ministry of Defense) agreement, which protected the university from the national army. For 30 years.

Overnight, his roadblock became a powerful symbol of UP's fierce resistance to what Imao called the latest siege of one of the democratic strongholds.

Imao said: "Therefore, the memorial hall was originally supposed to be a visual reminder of art, and the memorial became a form of protest art." "That was an incredible timing."

Imao pointed out that finding the parallelism between 1971 and 2021 is not difficult. In the past two years, the rise of authoritarian power has provided the Communist Party with a weapon for panic to prey on the enemy.

At that time, students broke into the street from the classroom, leading to a violent confrontation with the police.

However, even if there is no physical conflict now, the termination of the agreement still "defeats the entire paradigm of the classroom" as a refuge for freedom of thought.

When terminating the agreement, Lorenzana claimed that UP had become a hotbed for recruiting Communist rebels. Imao said: "But the reason why UP is inevitably branded is because it can accept all kinds of ideas, it may be fascists, it may be radical, militant or anything else."

"Its job is to equip students with the best analytical tools. How they will act to contribute to the country depends on them. But the country cannot decide how to best "serve the country."

This is why many people see the symbol of the second commune. However, Imao is not sure whether life will imitate his art.

He said: "This is the decision of (young people)." "If there is another Diliman commune, it may not even be physical. The world has changed tremendously, and there are already multiple platforms that can express the emotion of resistance. "

As always, Imao's own resistance is manifested in art and sculpture.

The two-part engKWENTrO is the latest work in his amazing collection of works depicting social conditions and national history. It is actually the second phase of a three-year project that aims to commemorate the three histories celebrating its 50th anniversary Events: First quarter storm (2020), Diliman commune (2021) and martial law (2022).

This year's Barikada is actually the successor to last year's "Nagbabadyang Unos" (The Coming Storm): a huge 60-foot-wide structure with a crown of thorns or floating barricades composed of spiked bamboo and converted chairs and classroom furniture.

Narrative Toym Imao hopes that his series of sculpture reliefs will be embedded in some upgraded class tables, desks and chairs. These narratives of the activities of the congress to the commune in 1971 will stimulate public discussion. --Neo Jesus Orbetta

Just before President Duterte announced the blockade of the pandemic throughout Luzon, it had enveloped the historical steps of the Palma Concert Hall for more than a month.

He said: "The purpose at the time was to remind people of Marcos's architectural despotism. This is the opportunity the government took during the pandemic to extend control to the entire country under the guise of containing the pandemic." It has a new meaning and has been re-associated."

The second work in engKWENTrO, "Muebles" (furniture), is a series of sculptural reliefs embedded in about 50 upgraded class tables, desks and chairs, representing the narrative of events leading to the commune in 1971.

These works will travel through the center of the student movement: Palma and Melchor Hall (concert hall), and Vinzons Plaza (wenzong square), and then rest in Barikada.

All chairs and tables used in these two artworks have been repurposed or condemned. Imao, a graduate and professor of the UP University College of Fine Arts, said that by taking them from the classroom environment to the street, these works become "a symbolic act of breaking through the four corners of the classroom."

Of course, Imao realized that his work could make him a crosshair of the government. The government’s red flag craze has marked his local college and organization UP Mountaineers as the forefront of Communist recruitment.

Several colleagues in the field of art like Carlos Palanca, winner and playwright Liza Magtoto, were also marked as New People’s Army recruits.

Imao said that selecting artists is not surprising, because their work “is easy to be (especially) misunderstood, especially if you don’t like this kind of free expression.”

He warned: "They see it as an attack on power." "But it's important to be honest. [I] owe it to my children, students, and university, which gave me the opportunity to be an enlightened person."

Imao "does not pretend that [his work] can solve all problems."

He said: "It can trigger words, it can also pierce emotions." "It's just my simple and humble contribution. It depends on how it will register with people. If they can move, that's fine. If not, we Will redouble our efforts and persuade in the next day and the next day thereafter." INQ

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