With schools from kindergarten to college closing and sending students home to continue studies, students and families alike need to alter their routines and spaces as remote learning becomes, at least for the short term, the norm. Here are a few things you can do to make it easier.
As colleges are struggling with issues of equity and balancing student protections with admissions competition, a number of changes to the college admissions process are coming.
While the college admissions process seems more convoluted and competitive every year, changes currently being discussed and implemented will add unpredictability and complexity for years to come.
Every few years a scandal involving cheating around tests and privilege and college admissions comes to light. This time the scandal touches our local area and continues to underscore the insanity around the obsession our society has with name-brand universities.
Even the extraordinarily wealthy and famous believe they can’t legally influence the admissions office, and that’s actually a good thing. There are certain groups of people who receive a small advantage in the admissions process, including children of alumni (legacy admits), athletes and development admits (those who are donating large sums, usually more than $5 million, which go to helping all students). However, the advantage these students receive is smaller than one thinks – for example, even two-thirds of Stanford University legacy applicants are denied.
A swine flu epidemic in 2009. Hurricane Katrina. The onset of the Civil War.
During my visits to India, I have seen young children working in restaurants cleaning tables, selling stuff in the streets, begging on street corners or at traffic lights, doing agricultural labor or working in factories. Before I began my Girl Scout Gold Award project, I thought that child trafficking happened only in India. When I researched this subject, I was in disbelief to learn that child trafficking happens in the Bay Area, too.
According to UNICEF, child trafficking is the act of harboring, recruiting, transporting, transferring or receiving a person by means of fraud, force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficked victims can be boys and girls.
List: Los Altos restaurants operating during shutdown
List: Mountain View restaurants operating during shutdown
List: Los Altos retail shops operating during shutdown
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