EDUCATION: Teachers seek to delay MBUSD TK-2 program until after holidays
The Manhattan Beach Unified School District has received LA County authorization to begin part-time, in-person instruction again for students in transitional kindergarten through second grade. But the district’s teachers union, concerned by a countywide spike in cases and the impact family gatherings over the holidays are likely to have in producing more COVID-19 cases, has asked that the district wait to begin the TK-2 program until early next year. Manhattan Beach Unified Teachers Association president Shawn Chen said the timing for a return to the classroom just isn’t right. “We are concerned with the rising number of cases and with the increasing reports from students telling us that they are leaving town and going to sleepovers and engaging in other behaviors that will have negative consequences in an in-person schooling environment,” Chen said. The teachers union had signed off on the TK-2 waiver application with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, including a letter of support with the application submitted by Superintendent Mike Matthews on October 23 and approved on November 5. MBUSD hoped to have students back in classrooms by December 1. But Chen said…
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