“My father died, at 89, last fall. He also watched 20 years of Kobe’s play — 24, if you include high school — and it helped strengthen the bond between us. Dad would tape the late games and watch them in the morning. If we felt Kobe had an off night, we simply erased the DVR.” Gregg Downer, Lower Merion Aces Basketball Coach – Philadelphia Inquirer.
NJ Governor to 2nd Home Owners – Stay in your First Home
“The local infrastructure, especially the healthcare infrastructure, and especially in off-season, is not prepared for the influx of part-time residents.” Phil Murphy – NJ.com
Lower Merion Schools Cited for Having Easy Transition to Online
The Notebook, “an independent, nonprofit news service serving thousands of supporters of the Philadelphia public schools,” reported yesterday that,
“On Tuesday, Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite announced that the District was planning to purchase or otherwise acquire devices for all its students who don’t have them, relying on schools to assess their students’ needs.
In a Facebook Live video, Hite said that he would ask the Board of Education for funds to purchase 50,000 devices to give to students at home within the next two weeks. He did not specify how much he was asking for or where the money might come from.”
The Notebook called attention to the disparities among school systems with respect to how well they have been to continue to educate their children during the Coronavirus Crisis.
According to The Notebook,
“All Lower Merion High School students have district-issued laptops to take home, and teachers are assigning students schoolwork and giving them deadlines for submitting it. Students understand that the work will be graded.
Even before the shutdown, most schoolwork in Lower Merion’s two district high schools was submitted online, so the transition has been relatively simple.
In Philadelphia, by contrast, no graded schoolwork is being done given the continued challenge of providing services to all students, and Hite has acknowledged that this school year will likely be marked by an ‘asterisk.’ “
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Bryn Mawr Film Institute Offers Online Learning
On March 30 they’ll be discussing Laura. 1944, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews and Vincent Price
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