{"id":2008753,"date":"2023-08-22T22:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-mesa-unified-students-return-to-school-in-sunshine-after-tropical-storm-hilary\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:17:46","slug":"newport-mesa-unified-students-return-to-school-in-sunshine-after-tropical-storm-hilary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-mesa-unified-students-return-to-school-in-sunshine-after-tropical-storm-hilary\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport-Mesa Unified students back to school under sunny skies post Tropical Storm Hilary."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewport-mesa-unified-students-return-to-school-in-sunshine-after-tropical-storm-hilary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Sun Shines on Newport-Mesa Unified Students on the First Day of School<\/h2>\n<p>The sun showed up to greet Newport-Mesa Unified students on their \u2063first day\u2063 of\u2062 school Aug. 21 \u2064after \u200ca brief visit from Tropical Storm Hilary over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>District parents said they monitored the news for signs of\u2062 extreme weather but were otherwise prepared to drop their\u2063 kids off for another year of learning.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We \u2062were watching the weather and noticed\u200c that by\u200c the end \u200dof\u200b the day on\u200c Sunday, the weather would clear up \u2064by \u2062Monday \u200dand [the storm] wouldn&#8217;t really affect\u2063 the first \u2063day of\u2062 school,\u201d Jessica Golden, who has an \u206411-year-old \u2064and 6-year-old in the district,\u200c told The\u2062 Epoch Times. \u201cAnd that\u2062 was nice because we got to\u2062 go [into the classroom with our child], which is not something that we get to do anymore in\u2064 the mornings \u2062or after school. It&#8217;s really good to be able to go in with them on the \u200bfirst day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/newport-beach-bans-homeless-encampments-in-front-of-schools-daycare-centers-5398071\">Newport Beach Bans Homeless Encampments in Front of Schools, Daycare Centers<\/a> (7\/13\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/tropical-storm-hilary-prompts-evacuations-cancellations-in-southern-california-5477480\">Tropical Storm \u200cHilary Prompts \u2064Evacuations, Cancellations in Southern California<\/a> (8\/20\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex Bond, the father \u200cof\u200d a six-year-old and a four-year-old in \u200cthe\u200b district, told The Epoch Times that he was more nervous about his children\u2019s first\u2064 day of school\u200b than about the recent \u200ctropical storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storm was not \u2064really a big \u2062one,\u2063 just a bit of \u2064rain,\u201d he said. \u201cBut for the\u2063 first day of school, I\u2019m nervous. My kids are excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Parents pick up \u2063their children\u2063 at Paularino Elementary School, of the Newport-Mesa Unified \u2064School District, in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Aug. 21, 2023. (John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though \u200bNewport-Mesa Unified returned to in-person \u2062instruction in 2021 after schools \u2063shut down for much of 2020 \u200cdue to COVID-19, the pandemic lingered\u200c on many \u2064parents and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-public-schools-push-transgender-ideology-without-telling-parents\/\" title=\"Chicago Public Schools Push Transgender Ideology Without Telling Parents\">students\u2019 minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Paularino Elementary in Costa \u2062Mesa,\u2062 many students\u2063 are experiencing their first year at \u2062an in-person \u2063school after spending the past several years\u2062 learning at home due to \u200bthe pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Winona, a 4th grader at the school, returned \u2062to campus for\u2062 the\u200c first\u2063 time since preschool on\u2064 Monday after attending a virtual private school\u200c from kindergarten through third grade, according to her parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a great first day of school!\u201d Winona told The Epoch Times. \u201cI love it so much. I\u2019m \u2062going \u2064to come back every\u2064 day!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winona said her favorite part of school, so far,\u200c was an activity where she got to learn more about her classmates\u2019 backgrounds \u200dand\u200d share her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love\u200c my classmates and my \u200cteachers especially,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A gate enclosing Paularino Elementary \u2064School,\u200c of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, in Costa Mesa, \u2062Calif., on Aug. 21, \u20632023. (John Fredricks\/The\u200b Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms. Golden, the parent with the 11-year-old \u200band 6-year-old, told The Epoch \u200bTimes \u2062she was glad schools were once again open, and that her children struggled \u2063with online learning until they returned to on-campus school a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing alone has kind of sheltered [my kids] a little bit,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a \u200clittle bit of a challenge but my youngest is especially excited for school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were 18,000 students \u2064registered for the 2023\u201324 school year across the district\u2019s 32 campuses, according to district spokesperson Annette Franco.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newport-mesa-unified-students-return-to-school-in-sunshine-after-tropical-storm-hilary\/\" title=\"Newport-Mesa Unified students back to school under sunny skies post Tropical Storm Hilary.\">total attendance number<\/a> for the \u200bfirst day \u2062of\u2064 school was \u200cnot immediately available.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A pedestrian sign outside of Paularino Elementary School, of\u2064 the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Aug. 21, 2023. (John Fredricks\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, Santa Ana Unified and Orange Unified also held their first day of school on Aug. 21 \u2063without any interruptions from the storm, \u2064while Capistrano Unified\u2014which began instruction last week\u2014also remained open.<\/p>\n<p>However, Los Angeles Unified\u2014which also \u2062began instruction last week\u2014announced their 439 \u2063school campuses would be closed Monday due to the storm, but re-opened doors on Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">school closures<\/a>, Los Angeles\u2064 Unified held \u201cGrab and \u200dGo\u201d meal distribution stations at 15 school campuses across the district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun appeared on the first day of school for Newport-Mesa Unified students after a visit from Tropical Storm Hilary. Parents kept an eye on the weather but were ready to send their kids for another year of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":2008754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}