The board has confirmed that a full time return to the classroom is finally happening. I honestly never imagined we would get here but it is clear that this outcome belongs entirely to you. Please keep keeping an eye on the details as the district moves forward with these changes.
November 14, 2020
Final supporters
Dear Bloomfield Hills School Board Members,
The purpose of this petition is to send our children to school utilizing the traditional classroom setting, on a full-time basis.
On August 20, 2020, the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education voted to implement a hybrid phase in-plan for in-person part time teaching. Anything less than full time, 5 days a week in-person instruction is a disservice for all students, especially for students with disabilities, who have a legal right to a Free Appropriate Public Education, guaranteed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
“Children miss out on essential academic and social–emotional learning, formative relationships with peers and adults, opportunities for play, and other developmental necessities when they are kept at home. Children living in poverty, children of color, English language learners, children with diagnosed disabilities, and young children face especially severe losses. Until these children physically return to school full time, many will lose out on essential educational, social, and developmental benefits; neither the economy nor the health care system will be able to return to full strength given parents’ caretaking responsibilities and profound racial and socioeconomic injustices will be further exacerbated.” (https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/20schoolsduringpandemic2.pdf [ethics.harvard.edu])
On October 9th, movie theaters and cinemas, bowling alleys, indoor climbing gyms, trampoline parks, arcades, bingo halls and performance venues will re-open. This is great news and reflects the steady decline of Michigan’s Covid-19 cases. Now it is time for our schools!
Additionally, Michigan has recently approved student’s participation in sports and other extra-curricular activities that had previously been banned in response to Covid-19. Therefore, the message currently being sent to our children is that extra-curricular activities and sports are more important than in-person learning.
Lastly, on-line learning is not as productive as in person learning. Considering that neighboring public and private have returned or plan to return to full time in person instruction coupled with the low Covid-19 numbers in the BHSD, it is time to return our students to their schools and classrooms full time. The following are the expectations of parents and tax payers in the Bloomfield Hills School District:
· Full time, 5 days per week, face-to-face learning implemented by November 2, 2020; not a hybrid model
· Provide the Bloomfield Virtual option for parents that choose to continue virtual learning
· Provide weekly updates from the Superintendent’s office or Board of Education regarding the timing and implementation of the face to face plan, including dates certain for each occurrence
· Conduct and consider parent survey responses regarding changes to student learning plans
We respect and thank our teachers and staff for all they have done to educate our children during this unprecedented time.
Thank you!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 5, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
October 2, 2020
90 Comments
I beg you to please give parents the option for 5 full days of school. I accept the risk to my family as there is same or less risk to us in compared to flu/pneumonia. It is crazy K-12 students are not in school full time.
I would love to see full time learning but I also wish we would address later start times for high school students. The switch from a 9:00 virtual start to the 7:25 hybrid start time has dramatically highlighted how much better our high school students would do with later start times.
100 percent agree with this petition. Our kids need to be back in school full time. Private schools have been doing it since August with no problem at the primary level. And other schools districts as well. Please think of the kids
we need to know that BHS can adequately and safely accommodate F2F. We need to know that proper cleaning, distancing, and ventilation is adequate to facilitate F2F...... no short cuts.
The students need this! The educators are doing a great job with the virtual component but the students need the social, emotional & mental growth that they receive from being IN school. It will benefit them so greatly to be in school full time!! Thank you!
25 cases out of 100,000 people is NOTHING!!! Much less shutting down the school! That metric is RIDICULOUS! Open the schools in Bloomfield Hills.
Make America Great Again Again! Make sure and Vote Trump 2020! Counting on all of the great suburban moms to vote Trump!
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
The board has confirmed that a full time return to the classroom is finally happening. I honestly never imagined we would get here but it is clear that this outcome belongs entirely to you. Please keep keeping an eye on the details as the district moves forward with these changes.
November 14, 2020
Final supporters
Dear Bloomfield Hills School Board Members,
The purpose of this petition is to send our children to school utilizing the traditional classroom setting, on a full-time basis.
On August 20, 2020, the Bloomfield Hills Board of Education voted to implement a hybrid phase in-plan for in-person part time teaching. Anything less than full time, 5 days a week in-person instruction is a disservice for all students, especially for students with disabilities, who have a legal right to a Free Appropriate Public Education, guaranteed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
“Children miss out on essential academic and social–emotional learning, formative relationships with peers and adults, opportunities for play, and other developmental necessities when they are kept at home. Children living in poverty, children of color, English language learners, children with diagnosed disabilities, and young children face especially severe losses. Until these children physically return to school full time, many will lose out on essential educational, social, and developmental benefits; neither the economy nor the health care system will be able to return to full strength given parents’ caretaking responsibilities and profound racial and socioeconomic injustices will be further exacerbated.” (https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/20schoolsduringpandemic2.pdf [ethics.harvard.edu])
On October 9th, movie theaters and cinemas, bowling alleys, indoor climbing gyms, trampoline parks, arcades, bingo halls and performance venues will re-open. This is great news and reflects the steady decline of Michigan’s Covid-19 cases. Now it is time for our schools!
Additionally, Michigan has recently approved student’s participation in sports and other extra-curricular activities that had previously been banned in response to Covid-19. Therefore, the message currently being sent to our children is that extra-curricular activities and sports are more important than in-person learning.
Lastly, on-line learning is not as productive as in person learning. Considering that neighboring public and private have returned or plan to return to full time in person instruction coupled with the low Covid-19 numbers in the BHSD, it is time to return our students to their schools and classrooms full time. The following are the expectations of parents and tax payers in the Bloomfield Hills School District:
· Full time, 5 days per week, face-to-face learning implemented by November 2, 2020; not a hybrid model
· Provide the Bloomfield Virtual option for parents that choose to continue virtual learning
· Provide weekly updates from the Superintendent’s office or Board of Education regarding the timing and implementation of the face to face plan, including dates certain for each occurrence
· Conduct and consider parent survey responses regarding changes to student learning plans
We respect and thank our teachers and staff for all they have done to educate our children during this unprecedented time.
Thank you!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 5, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
October 2, 2020
90 Comments
Kids education is essential, they need in-person to prevent the regression they have and are experiencing. As a Healthcare provider, I know the "fears" of COVID-19. But the fears of ruining our future are worse at this age demographic.
I beg you to please give parents the option for 5 full days of school. I accept the risk to my family as there is same or less risk to us in compared to flu/pneumonia. It is crazy K-12 students are not in school full time.
I would love to see full time learning but I also wish we would address later start times for high school students. The switch from a 9:00 virtual start to the 7:25 hybrid start time has dramatically highlighted how much better our high school students would do with later start times.
100 percent agree with this petition. Our kids need to be back in school full time. Private schools have been doing it since August with no problem at the primary level. And other schools districts as well. Please think of the kids
we need to know that BHS can adequately and safely accommodate F2F. We need to know that proper cleaning, distancing, and ventilation is adequate to facilitate F2F...... no short cuts.
The students need this! The educators are doing a great job with the virtual component but the students need the social, emotional & mental growth that they receive from being IN school. It will benefit them so greatly to be in school full time!! Thank you!
25 cases out of 100,000 people is NOTHING!!! Much less shutting down the school! That metric is RIDICULOUS! Open the schools in Bloomfield Hills.
Make America Great Again Again! Make sure and Vote Trump 2020! Counting on all of the great suburban moms to vote Trump!
Share this petition
Share this petition to help it reach more people.
Your share link
Petitions like this
Other petitions you might want to support
Scan to share
Anyone who scans this can sign the petition.
Kids education is essential, they need in-person to prevent the regression they have and are experiencing. As a Healthcare provider, I know the "fears" of COVID-19. But the fears of ruining our future are worse at this age demographic.