{"id":496669,"date":"2021-05-11T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496669"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:36:14","slug":"san-fran-high-school-seniors-may-return-to-school-for-one-day-so-district-can-get-12m-in-covid-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-fran-high-school-seniors-may-return-to-school-for-one-day-so-district-can-get-12m-in-covid-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"San Fran High School Seniors May Return To School For One Day So District Can Get $12M In COVID Relief"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fsan-fran-high-school-seniors-may-return-to-school-for-one-day-so-district-can-get-12m-in-covid-relief%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=496669&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1207053941.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The San Francisco United School District will welcome back the district\u2019s high school seniors for exactly one day of in-person learning so that San Francisco\u2019s schools can qualify for $12 million in state-based COVID-19 relief funding in a deal reached with the San Francisco teachers union, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/education\/article\/S-F-seniors-might-go-back-to-school-for-only-one-16166684.php?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=sfc_coronavirus&#038;sid=5ef1898360f99153741eba1d\">according to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The students, however, will not receive any in-classroom instruction from a teacher but will, instead, be \u201csupervised\u201d by unnamed staff members who will help them explore careers or prepare for college.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre arrangement is the result of months of negotiations between the district and the teachers union, which demanded that students return to classrooms only when all of the district\u2019s teachers were fully vaccinated, according to the SF Chronicle, even though, the outlet noted, private schools and some nearby school districts have been in-person for some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter months of pushback, the teachers union announced Sunday the \u2018exciting news\u2019 that they had reached an agreement with the district to allow seniors to return,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9565453\/San-Francisco-schools-open-just-ONE-day-district-12million-funding.html\">the Daily Mail added<\/a>. \u2018The details of the plan were not specified in the announcement, but it has since been revealed that each cohort of students will have two staff members supervising them on campus. The cohort size is not yet known but activities will include \u2018end of high school conversations\u2019 and \u2018college or career exploration\u2019, district officials said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the arrangement would likely prove fruitless for the class of 2021, the SF Chronicle notes that it does help the school district qualify for state-level COVID-19 relief grants because it allows the district to claim that, technically, students returned to reopened classrooms in the 2020-2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDistrict officials believe the plan would see $12 million offered in state reopening grants,\u201d the Daily Mail added. \u201cState law required districts to reopen elementary schools and at least one grade in middle or high school for in-person instruction before May 15.\u201d Elementary schools have been open since April, and a small fraction of middle and high school students have been in person since the middle of last month \u2014 but just those students that require special considerations, like English as a Second Language instruction, or who have special needs.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20,000 of the district\u2019s 52,000 students were in classrooms full time at the beginning of May, which left the school district struggling to qualify for California\u2019s relief grants. \u201cOfficials and the union then scrambled to get the potential $12million and came up with the plan to reopen for one day,\u201d the Daily Mail said.<\/p>\n<p>Parents told the Chronicle that the arrangement appeared to be a money grab, given that the students were not technically receiving any in-person instruction during the outlined period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat message does this give our kids about what they are worth and how adults take care of our vulnerable populations, including kids? Does this show them that they matter, or just that the money matters?\u201d a San Francisco student advocacy group told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear that the plan will work. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the California assemblyman who wrote the provision granting COVID-19 relief to districts that welcomed students back in person says that while the plan follows the letter of the law, it fails to follow the \u201cspirit\u201d of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely doesn\u2019t meet the spirit of the law. Kids were supposed to come back in person. Kids were supposed to come back to learn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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