{"id":4454,"date":"2020-10-14T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:27:12","slug":"rally-pleads-for-an-end-to-distance-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/rally-pleads-for-an-end-to-distance-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally pleads for an end to distance learning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe want our kids to go back to school \u2014 as soon as possible,\u201d said Gail Markarian on Saturday, speaking from the front steps of the Courthouse Museum to a rally of some 30 parents, teachers and students.<\/p>

Most of those in attendance waved green and yellow signs pleading for MUSD schools to reopen.<\/p>

Passing vehicles honked in support.<\/p>

The rally was organized to make a plea to reopen the local schools, which have been closed since being shut down by Gov. Gavin Newsom since the start of the school year.<\/p>

\u201cI am not a teacher, said Markarian, \u201cbut I am married to one \u2014 he\u2019s a chemistry teacher at Madera High. And we want our kids to go back to school.\u201d<\/p>

Elizabeth Yost, a school nurse practitioner in the Madera system, said Madera kids were missing out on a lot because of distance learning, in which teachers and their students have little face-to-face contact, because of concerns about possible contagion with the coronavirus. Yost said, however, such student-to-student contagion, in fact, didn\u2019t seem to be a problem.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019re rallying to open MUSD at all grade levels in the public schools,\u201d Yost said. She said the problems the kids have with trying to learn from a distance, such as the struggles the students have trying to learn over television, are far more of a hinderance to learning than any threat from the virus itself, as long as the students wash their hands, wear masks and practice social distancing.<\/p>

Those who spoke to the rally also gave examples of other local school districts who had changed back to face-to-face schooling.<\/p>

Yost said students have gone hungry because they had no food in their houses due to lack of contact with school staff.<\/p>

Many students and their families, especially those who live at the poverty level, rely on school-prepared meals, Yost said.<\/p>

\u201cGive us a choice,\u201d Markarian said.<\/p>

\u201cMUSD Trustees, it\u2019s time to give us a waiver,\u201d Yost said.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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