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LET THEM PLAY!! 1 Message LET THEM PLAY!! 1 message Tina Hurd Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:58 AM To: [email protected] We have a vaccine, it’s being administered. Covid-19 positivity rates are starting to drop and NOW you decide to cancel high school sports. The hearts of thousands of high school student athletes have been shattered. There is no reason they should not be allowed to play high school sports regardless of whether there are classes on campus. These kids should not be punished because you can’t, or won’t, get teachers back in the classroom. Dozens of private schools around the Valley have had live, on campus instruction since August. If they were being homeschooled in a normal school year, they would be allowed to participate in sports for their zoned school without being required to be “on campus” for schooling. We can go to a casino, we can eat in a restaurant, we can go to the grocery store or the mall, we can ride the bus, we can fly on an airplane. There is no reason these students should not be allowed to play high school sports. These student athletes are passionate about their sports. Many are relying on obtaining scholarships to be able to go to college. You have stolen that opportunity from them. The CDC recommended NOT closing schools as it would be detrimental to the mental and emotional health of our children. You went against that recommendation. As a result, failing grades are up by an average of 35% across all grade levels. Worse, we have had a record number of suicides in our student population. 18 at last count. That is wholly and completely unacceptable. Now their hopes have been dashed further and more opportunities stripped away by taking away the sports they love. To Superintendent Jara: Are you doing everything possible to open our schools? That would be an emphatic and resounding NO! Respectfully, Tina Hurd January 28, 2021 Reference 8.01(B) Page 1 of 101 LET THEM PLAY!! 1 message Tina Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:01 PM To: [email protected] We have a vaccine, it’s being administered. Covid-19 positivity rates are starting to drop and NOW you decide to cancel high school sports. The hearts of thousands of high school student athletes have been shattered. There is no reason they should not be allowed to play high school sports regardless of whether there are classes on campus. These kids should not be punished because you can’t, or won’t, get teachers back in the classroom. Dozens of private schools around the Valley have had live, on campus instruction since August. If they were being homeschooled in a normal school year, they would be allowed to participate in sports for their zoned school without being required to be “on campus” for schooling. We can go to a casino, we can eat in a restaurant, we can go to the grocery store or the mall, we can ride the bus, we can fly on an airplane. There is no reason these students should not be allowed to play high school sports. These student athletes are passionate about their sports. Many are relying on obtaining scholarships to be able to go to college. You have stolen that opportunity from them. The CDC recommended NOT closing schools as it would be detrimental to the mental and emotional health of our children. You went against that recommendation. As a result, failing grades are up by an average of 35% across all grade levels. Worse, we have had a record number of suicides in our student population. 18 at last count. That is wholly and completely unacceptable. Now their hopes have been dashed further and more opportunities stripped away by taking away the sports they love. To Superintendent Jara: Are you doing everything possible to open our schools? That would be an emphatic and resounding NO! Sincerely, Steven Hurd January 28, 2021 Reference 8.01(B) Page 2 of 101 Let us play 1 message Elijah Rhodes Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:03 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Hello, I am writing this email because of the fact that ccsd has chosen to cancel all fall sports. This is not right, sports are a major part in kids futures and careers. For students to get athletic and academic scholarships they need to play sports. Especially for seniors with this being there last year and their last chance to prove that they can go play college ball. I find it ridiculous that we are one of the only states that can’t find a way to safely play yet so many other states have found ways to play. If youth sports and flag football tournaments and soccer tournaments can play how come high school sports cant. There are so many things we can do to make this happen. We can do Covid test for the athletes, we can do temperature checks, we can do reduced fans in the stands and social distancing. We can also enforce wearing a mask at the games. There are so many things we can do yet you have just pushed away fall sports for these students that work their tails off to play the sports and get to the next level and set up a future career for themselves. LET THEM PLAY! January 28, 2021 Reference 8.01(B) Page 3 of 101 let us play 1 message Gianna Paonessa Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:06 PM To: [email protected] We need fall sports. let us play January 28, 2021 Reference 8.01(B) Page 4 of 101 LET THEM PLAY,NV 1 message Patty Bellotte Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Dear Dr. Jara and CCSD Board, I cannot express how strongly I disagree with the decision to take away our students' fall sports that were already rescheduled for the spring. I am Patricia, the proud mother of a CCSD 2017 grad and a Senior at High School. When my son was a Senior, he did not get to play football due to an injury and a surgery that he had to have as a result of an accident that was not related to his sports. After that surgery, he learned that he would not be able to play football again, or join the military which were his two great dreams in life. Since that time, he has been diagnosed with clinical anxiety and depression and has had to see medical professionals and is on medication in large part due to having his dreams crushed - to include playing football. It may not seem important to you, but it is extremely important to me. My children are my life, and the day my child told me he had considered taking his life as a result of all the psychological side effects from the injury, I absolutely broke. You see, I lost my brother to suicide when I was 18-years-old. I am well-aware of the effect that has on a family. Fast forward to March 2020. On my daughter's 17th birthday, CCSD closed off schools due to the Covid pandemic. She missed out on the end of her junior year, to include military ball, her first prom, and the rest of her sports season-cheer. My daughter has been cheering since third grade. She gave up other sports in order to perform in her chosen love. She is a back spot, she was on the varsity team at , and she is amazing. It was hard to see all of the things she missed during her Junior year, but I told her to have faith. The school board would find a way to get our kids back in school as soon as they could, and she would have her senior year to look forward to Here we are at the end of January in her senior year of high school. Not a child has stepped foot back into her High School. I don't even know how this is possible as my husband is a teacher at , and they have students back in class, as do the private schools in our Valley. This board has absolutely devastated the psyches of all of the children that you have kept out of school for the entire year. You have kept them away from their friends, and have put many of them on antidepressants, 18 have lost their young precious lives. Yes, this is a result of your inaction to get our children back into school. My daughter who has cheered since she was in the third grade found out the other day by a phone call that all fall sports which were scheduled to take place in the spring are now canceled. These children have absolutely no hope and no faith in the school board doing the right thing at this point. It is not just my daughter, it is her friends, it is all of the athletes who have done everything that they have been told to do. They have put up with distance learning that is absolutely horrible. They have been promised quarter after quarter that they will return to the classrooms or the schools. Lies. I fail to see how children can partake in club sports in Las Vegas, but we cannot get our children into their school sports. I have friends whose children are in Leagues that travel to Utah and to Arizona to play their tournaments.
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