Minneapolis Public Schools has canceled classes and activities following the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer and ensuing protests.
The school district, which has an enrolment of about 29,000 students, said in a statement on Wednesday that there will be no school, sports and activities on Thursday and Friday “due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city.”
The 37-year-old woman, identified as Renee Nicole Good, was fatally shot in a residential neighbourhood south of downtown Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in a major city.
Her killing after 9:30 a.m. was recorded on video by witnesses.
Beyond being terrified, it’s probably just the right thing to do from a strategic standpoint here. ICE has tried barging into schools and holding kids hostage as a way of getting at their parents before, so they probably should just transition to remote learning like it’s 2020 again until ICE fucks off.
e; and I say that knowing full well how much remote learning sucks for a lot of students and knowing what 2020 did to all the education statistics, but I don’t see a better way to keep people safe
e2; https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minneapolis-schools-offer-remote-learning-amid-federal-immigration-129062190 (arc)
Bro, not even just holding them hostage, but literally taking away and deporting actual children. These people are monsters.
All schools in an area under assault from ICE should go remote. That’s a great idea.
Yes, remote is not perfect, but the alternative is much worse.
I applaud your middle ground, but appeasement is how WWII happened.
Moving noncombatants to a more defensible location is not appeasement