In the wake of the recent surge of Omicron cases in Oakland, schools have been a disorganized mess with large numbers of students and staff sick and absent. Fed up with the lack of real safety protections in the schools, such as regular testing, adequate masks and...
The first few months of this school year were exhausting and demoralizing for educators, as staffing shortages and the COVID Delta variant impacted our schools. The politicians at all levels pushed for schools to reopen, proclaiming that this was vital for students’...
I am an elementary school teacher in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). We have been in school for 12 weeks and since there has not yet been a serious outbreak, people within our community have become somewhat complacent to the situation at hand. It’s...
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since the beginning of August. The Oakland School District had the entire summer to prepare for our return in the middle of a pandemic, but little was done to guarantee the safety of students and...
It’s been six weeks since the start of the school year in Oakland Unified School District, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. There are only 10 Covid testing sites across the entire district, and many schools lack equipment for safe outdoor eating...
