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Erika Claspille
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2020-10-29
COVID Testing in Schools
This article informs of the Texas Education Agency's decision to provide covid testing kits to school districts throughout the state. The testing kits were purchased from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and were to be distributed by size of district and rate of infection. From there, the school districts could decide how to make these available to students and staff. -
2021-09-21
COVID cases 2021-2022 School Year
This article shows the amount of COVID cases at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year compared to the number of cases from the 2020-2021 school year in Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended the mask mandate in March 2021, although many school continued their use until the end of the 2020-2021 school year. A May 2021 executive order issued by Abbott banned local governments from requiring mask wearing. Thus, many Texas schools did not require masks to be worn on campuses. The article provides data that there are more COVID 19 cases in the first two months of the 2021-2022 school year than there were the entire previous school year. -
2021-08-20
School District Facebook Post
This is a Facebook post from Cypress-Fairbanks ISD prior to the start of the 2021-2022 academic year. Cypress Fairbanks ISD (CFISD) is the 3rd largest public school district in the state of Texas and faced a lot of scrutiny for not enforcing a mask mandate. Their reasoning was due in part to Governor Greg Abbott ending the mask mandate in the state of Texas. CFISD released many of these "Fact Checking" posts to assure parents and the community that COVID safety was still a top priority. -
2021-03-24
Covid-19 Daily Schedule
In 2020, when schools closed their doors my children were ages 2 and 5. Because I was a public school teacher, I was no longer away at the school for 10+ hours a day. My kids were not old enough to have started school so I didn't need to learn about their online learning. However, I came to realize they needed a set structure to keep them busy during the what-seemed-like endless days we would be home together. A friend shared this schedule with me and I took pieces from it to work into our daily lives. It was important to me to keep my kids brains active and I knew I had to take on the role of a preschool teacher to do so. Eventually, we got into a groove and the many days became purposeful. -
2020-05-02
Park Closed
Playground closed with caution tape wrapped around the equipment. #HST643 -
2020-04-21
Packing up
Packing up my classroom in April. We did not return after Spring Break. March 6th, 2020 was the last time there would be physical classes this academic year. -
2020-05-01
Sunrise Grocery Shopping
Grocery shopping right when the store opens at 7:00 am in order to obtain newly stocked and rationed items- i.e., water, toilet paper, disinfectant. Shopping carts have been disinfected and positioned six feet apart as customers line up to enter the store.