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VOL. 124 - NO. 39 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 $.35 A COPY Celebrate National Good Neighbor Day Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020 National Good Neighbor Day 2020 is on Monday, September 28th. This annual holiday was fi rst proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Boston Public Schools Welcomes Students for the 2020-21 School Year Mayor Walsh and Superintendent Cassellius Provided a Video Message To Students to Welcome Them Back to BPS for the 2020-21 School Year The Boston Public Schools assignment. In phases, students and families back as we begin “How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for (BPS) launched the 2020 - 2021 in Group A will attend schools the new school year, and to sup- the fi rst time in United States history, it became possible to school year with a full day of on Mondays and Tuesdays port the hard work of our school urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal- remote learning for all students. and students in Group B will leaders and educators to provide citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental Students began their days in attend school on Thursdays and enriching activities and oppor- constitutional principle.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg virtual homerooms then par- Fridays. All will learn online on tunities for students learning ticipated in a series of live and Wednesdays to allow for clean- remotely and in-person alike,” Rest in Peace recorded lessons. Students will ing, disinfecting, and sanitizing said Boston School Committee remain in remote learning until of buildings. Chairperson Michael Loconto. at least October 1st. The phase-in of the hybrid “In addition to building upon “As we begin the school year, learning model will follow the the lessons learned last year we know our young people schedule below (double dates about remote learning, we also News Briefs need safe, comforting spaces reference the Group A and forward to supporting the dis- by Sal Giarratani where they can learn and grow Group B starts). Each step will trict in continuing the steadfast more than ever,” said Boston begin no sooner than the listed commitment demonstrated this Mayor Martin J. Walsh. “We’ve date and only if public health spring and summer to ensuring Trump Calls “Left-Wing Indoctrination” spent the summer monitor- data shows that it is safe for in- equitable access to food and Is President Trump right or wrong when he says ing public health information, person learning: adequate technology for remote too many schools are indoctrinating students with a strengthening remote learning • Monday, September 21st: All learning. I also want to thank liberal agenda hostile to our Founding Fathers, which and ensuring our facilities are students began remote learning our City of Boston colleagues seemingly stress the worst parts of our history? Racism ready to welcome students and • Thursday, October 1st: for providing timely and com- and slavery have been a sad part of our historical staff back to our schools. For all Students prioritized for in- prehensive facilities support development, but it is an insult to our nation when students, families, teachers and person learning begin hybrid to welcome our educators and we teach it at the expense of our founding principles. schools starting the year today, I • Thursday, October 15th (B) students back to our school Our Nation is like each of us. We change and, hope- want you to know you have the & Monday, October 19th (A): buildings throughout the Fall.” fully, for the better. We learn by experience and trial full support of your City, and Grades K0, K1, K2 return Since the spring school clo- and error. Along the way we had to fi ght a civil war. I your Mayor.” • Thursday, October 22nd (B) sure, BPS worked with school am not unaware that during my own childhood many BPS prioritized equity, pub- & Monday, October 26th (A): leaders and teachers to improve Americans due to the color of their skin had their lic health, and safety in its Grades 1 - 3 return the remote learning experience constitutional rights violated on a daily basis during reopening plan for the 2020- • Thursday, November 5th (B) for students and educators. In the Civil Rights era. 21 school year. In addition, & Monday, November 9th (A): response to community feed- President Trump has characterized all the demon- BPS respected family choice Grades 4 - 8 (secondary schools back, all schools will use one strations and mayhem across our nation in the name by providing both all-remote start grades 6 - 8) return of two learning management of social justice as the direct result of indoctrination and opt-in hybrid learning • Monday, November 16th (A) systems, SeeSaw or Google and, I add, historical revisionism. I believe righting models. Students in all grades & Thursday, November 19th (B): Classroom, allowing families past wrongs, of which there have been many, must began the school year learning Grades 9 - 12 return and students to fi nd all of their start with a just appraisal of the past. I have seen little remotely on Sepptember 21st. Families with students who learning materials, classes, and of this thinking on display to date. For families that selected the are prioritized for in-person assignments in one place. BPS I read something from a man named Patrick T. hybrid learning model, students learning have also been notifi ed has also provided language- Mason, a self-identifi ed Native American and member will return to school buildings of the option for two additional specific training sessions for of the Osage Nation, who stated something that I have in phases, starting no sooner days of in-person learning. families, ensuring that everyone always believed, “We need to remember our history, than Thursday, October 1st, Students in this group will begin can access online resources the good and the bad, so that we are not set up to beginning with students with additional days of hybrid learn- with confi dence. repeat history’s mistakes. We need to take an honest the highest needs, who are pri- ing on October 13th, based on More info on BPS fall look at all our forefathers. We need to give them the oritized for in-person learning. choice, classroom capacity, and reopening is available at: credit they deserve for what they did well, while being Families who opted in to the public health data. bostonpublicschools.org/ mindful of the things that they could have done dif- hybrid model have been notifi ed “The School Committee is reopening, including a home ferently or better.” of their Group A or Group B excited to welcome students health checklist, and more. President Trump most recently stated that “Many young Americans have been fed lies about America THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFIC being a wicked nation plagued by racism.” Many 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON (Continued on Page 10) Tuesdays 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Thursdays 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 THOUGHTS by DAN Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Turiello About This & That Nostra with Daniel A. DiCenso A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis ancestry...our lineage...our roots. secret to not detract from the news of Japan’s surrender. ROMANO vs. RAPHAEL Nonetheless, inquiries were made (mostly internal) about the Navy’s failure to respond. The offi cer in charge of track- ing the Indianapolis, Lieutenant Stuart B. Gibson was held accountable for failing to inves- tigate the ship’s whereabouts upon knowing it was overdue at its destination. However, tak- The USS Indianapolis days before sinking. ing the brunt of the blame was the captain, Charles B. McVay One of the last naval disas- crew down. III, who would become the ters of WWII is ultimately a The 896 survivors found only captain court-martialed tale of courage and heroism. themselves adrift in hostile for losing a ship during WWII In the immediate aftermath of shark-infested waters with too in November of 1945. He was the war the story was buried few lifeboats to accommodate cleared of the charge of failing by the dropping of the A-bomb, them all. For three days the to order his men to abandon the end of the war and the men suffered starvation, dehy- ship, but the charge of hazard- return home, the unification dration, shark attacks, and no ing the ship by failing to zigzag of the American family and the reprieve from the blistering sun. through the waters stuck. The nd Fall of the Giants, fresco in Sala dei Giganti (north wall), growth of suburbia, and, the Finally, on August 2 , an anti- Navy likely knew it would be a Palazzo del Te, Mantua by Giulio Romano Cold War ultimately leading submarine plane doing patrol diffi cult case to make and, as us into another war in south- of the waters spotted the men has been suspected by some of While we are on the theme of Cupid, Psyche, and art, a very east Asia. But, thanks in part adrift. Pilots Lt. Chuck Gwinn the survivors, may have been interesting story tells us about the community of Mantua in north- to Steven Spielberg’s brief but and Lt. Warren Colwell imme- using McVay as a scapegoat ern Italy, the birthplace of Vergil. He glorifi ed the city’s palace in tense reference to the tragedy diately dropped a life raft and for its own miscalculations of his four books entitled Georgica.