Lafayette teacher Renee Box squeezed her COVID-19 vaccination appointment between repainting her daughter’s bedroom and cooking dinner for her family on a Sunday. The seemingly mundane moment was filled with joy and relief for Box, one of hundreds of teachers getting vaccinated in Lafayette Parish after the state expanded the vaccination eligibility list to include educators and school support staff nearly two weeks ago. Box, a blended third- through fifth-grade teacher with Louisiana Virtual Charter Academy, said she felt a sense of relief and renewed confidence when she received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a Walgreens in Scott. “This is my responsibility to our community ... I am able and willing to be vaccinated and so I should. It’s not just for me or my family, it’s for others ... so that our hospitals aren’t so full, so that people can get the treatment they need when they need it, so the things we love and enjoy about our culture, which involves a lot of … [Read more...] about ‘Relief’ as educators show out for COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Lafayette
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Declare state of emergency now in education sector, Clark tells Buhari
Kindly Share This Story: Says lack of attention on education sector, responsible for armed banditry, insurgency, kidnapping, others Urges FG to give scholarship, loans to students, give priority to Girl- Child education By Henry Umoru – Abuja Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in the education sector. According to Clark who was Commissioner for Education, Midwestern Region ( 1968-71), it has become very imperative for the federal government to declare the state of emergency to save the Education sector from total collapse, adding that as a teacher, a former headmaster in local authority schools, he is today very sad that the standard of education is falling and if not checked, would further deteriorate. Speaking exclusively with Vanguard yesterday at his Asokoro residence, Abuja on the second … [Read more...] about Declare state of emergency now in education sector, Clark tells Buhari
Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
Mathematicians were disturbed, centuries ago, to find that calculating the properties of certain curves demanded the seemingly impossible: numbers that, when multiplied by themselves, turn negative. All the numbers on the number line, when squared, yield a positive number; 2 2 = 4, and (-2) 2 = 4. Mathematicians started calling those familiar numbers “real” and the apparently impossible breed of numbers “imaginary.” Imaginary numbers, labeled with units of i (where, for instance, (2 i ) 2 = -4), gradually became fixtures in the abstract realm of mathematics. For physicists, however, real numbers sufficed to quantify reality. Sometimes, so-called complex numbers, with both real and imaginary parts, such as 2 + 3 i , have streamlined calculations, but in apparently optional ways. No instrument has ever returned a reading with an i . Yet physicists may have just shown for the first time that imaginary numbers are, in a sense, real. A group of quantum theorists … [Read more...] about Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality
All 42 Sarasas private schools to be investigated after teacher allegedly beat students
All of the 42 Sarasas private schools throughout Thailand will be investigated by the Office of the Private Education Commission, or OPEC, after a teacher was caught on camera allegedly hitting kindergarten students. The teacher, Ornuma “Khru Jum” Plodprong, allegedly beat young students at the Sarasas Witaed Ratchaphruek School in Nonthaburi, a suburb in Bangkok on the western banks of the Chao Phraya. Khru Jum, along with other teachers that allegedly witnessed the abuse, were fired and may face criminal charges pressed by parents of student victims. Surveillance camera footage of the classroom at the Nonthaburi school shows a teacher, identified as Khru Jum, hitting kindergarten students. In one clip, the teacher pushes a 3 year old student down to the ground and pulls a student’s hair. Another clip shows the teacher dragging the student across the classroom. Other teachers who were in the classroom did not intervene, the footage shows. OPEC secretary general Attapon … [Read more...] about All 42 Sarasas private schools to be investigated after teacher allegedly beat students
Bangkok prison director reveals what prison was like for eight prominent political prisoners, stress and sleeplessness
Bangkok – Krit Krasthip, director of the Bangkok Special Prison, addressed the first night of detention of eight prominent members of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) who were sentenced to imprisonment by the Criminal Court , on February 24th. The group was granted bail this afternoon, February 26th. The prisoners were Suthep Thipsuban (PDRC prominent protest leader), Natthaphon Teepasuwan (Minister of Education), Buddhipongse Punnakanta (Minister of Digital Economy), Thaworn Senniam (Deputy Minister of Transport), Chumpol Junsai (PDRC leader), Issara Somchai (PDRC leader), Samdin Lertbut (PDRC leader), and Suwit Thongprasert (formerly Buddha Isra). Krit revealed to the press that all of the prisoners were asked to perform a physical examination before changing their clothes and being taken to Territory 2, where they had a health screening to prevent the potential spread of Covid-19. Visits are not allowed at the prison at the moment due to the current … [Read more...] about Bangkok prison director reveals what prison was like for eight prominent political prisoners, stress and sleeplessness