No one appears to be addressing the Cleveland schools situation during the coronavirus. Sure sounds like a story that bears some investigation.
Your Saturday, April 4, front-page article, “Schools hit obstacles to online teaching,” goes into some detail on suburban schools, but devotes less space to Cleveland, vaguely mentioning that “Cleveland schools still had not announced any plan for next week as of Wednesday,” and that “with fewer than 10% of district students picking up meals each day, it is unclear how many also picked up lessons, let alone completed them.” Also, that, last week, "teachers [were] trying to collect updated phone numbers, addresses ... for students.”
Why wasn’t that done prior to the three-week extended spring break announced by Gov. Mike DeWine? What are these teachers and administrators doing to help these kids? Where is Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon? He sure planned on how they could pick up meals, but how about the primary focus: education for the already disadvantaged? Where’s the outrage? It’s all about the kids, right?
Robin Anderson,
Westlake