However, the boy later said he was overloaded and tired of online learning.

The same thing happened with her older son.

“It was easier to study online last year, when by sons were in fourth and eighth grades. They prefer online study because they did not have to get up early to go to school. But things are different now,” she said.

“As the kids are in the final grades of primary and secondary levels, they have to do more exercises and feel stressful,” she explained.

As schools have closed amid the new Covid-19 outbreak and organized online classes, Thu has had to buy one more laptop for the younger son. They also need a smartphone, in case of computer troubles.

Thu’s older son plans to take the entrance exam to the high school for the gifted, majoring in foreign languages. He has three learning periods in the morning and another three in the afternoon. He also has two English, one mathematics and one literature lessons with private tutors a week.

“My son complains that he feels tired and suffers from eyestrain as he has to sit too long in front of computer. However, he has no other choice than studying hard because he will have to take one of the two most important exams in his life this summer,” she said.

Thu hopes that the teachers at school will re-design their lesson plans so students don’t have to look at computer screen intently for too long.

La Mai Huyen, a mother in Hanoi, also is embarrassed as her children have to study online.

“My daughter is in second grade and she could not study online without the parents’ help. I have to leave a laptop at home for my son, a seventh grader, to study online and I am insecure about that. I am afraid that he would use the laptop to access the websites with bad content,” she explained.

Huyen also complained that she has become busier since the children have shifted to study online.

“I have to check notices from teachers sent to my phone regularly and I have to print documents that serve my children’s lessons,” she complained.

“This puts pressure on me. My mother urges me to study harder and harder all the time,“ he said.

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CHERRY HILL, N.J. (CBS) — The Cherry Hill School District is now the first in New Jersey to require students to take African American history in order to graduate. The school board approved the move Tuesday night.

Students had lobbied for the course to become mandatory. The charge was led by seventh-grader Ebele Azikiwe , of Beck Middle School.

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Ebele penned a letter last summer to the school district, asking for a more comprehensive and accurate curriculum on African American history.

“Part of what we learn today is important, yes, but it’s hardly anything compared to what we could and should learn,” Ebele said.

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“They’ve asked for a mandatory African American history class as a requirement to graduate from high school and that’s something we are moving forward with,” Cherry Hill Superintendent Dr. Joseph Meloche said in October.

Until now, the district offered an African American studies course as an elective.

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This course requirement goes into effect in September.

A college student who was found lying without clothes and severely burnt along a national highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district has claimed she was set on fire after a failed attempt to gang-rape her, police said on Wednesday.

According to Superintendent of Police S Anand, the girl told investigators that three people tried to rape her in a field near Rai Kheda village on Monday and when they did not succeed, they poured kerosene and set her on fire.

The police officer, however, added that she frequently changed her statements and also said that she was not aware of how she reached the hospital from the third floor of her college building.

The BA second-year student was admitted to a hospital in the district and later referred to Lucknow.

Dr SC Saundriyal, director of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Civil Hospital, Lucknow, where the girl is undergoing treatment for 72 per cent burns, told PTI, “Her condition is stable right now.”

Earlier, reports said she suffered 60 per cent burns.

In CCTV footage, the girl — a student of a college run by a trust of former union minister Swami Chinmayanand — was seen coming down alone from the third floor, the police said.

“Investigations with the help of CCTV footage have found that the girl went out of the college campus from a broken outer wall about 20 minutes after entering the premises and was seen walking alone on a canal road,” Anand said.

Prior to this, the girl could be seen talking to her friends outside a classroom and visiting a library, the SP said.

Three teams led by deputy superintendents of police (Dy SPs) and a Special Operations Group (SOG) team have been deployed. Besides, another team led by a Dy SP with five policemen is present at SPM Civil Hospital.

After recording the girl’s statement in Lucknow, the investigating officer will take up the matter, Anand said.

Over a dozen students of the college, including her friends, have been questioned.

The girl had called a person of her village on mobile phone on the day of the incident and he has also been questioned, the SP said.

According to Asif Ali, a resident of the village where the student was found lying without clothes, the villagers had covered her with a stole before calling the police.

The SP said in the field where she was lying, some tumblers were found but there was no trace of liquor.

The girl, a native of a village in the Jalalabad police station area, studies in Swami Shukdevanand Post Graduate College run by Mumukshu Ashram of Chinmayanand.

The ashram was at the center of a controversy in 2019 after a female student of a law college run by it accused Chinmayanand of sexual assault.

However, the student later withdrew her charges against Chinmayanand, who was arrested in the case in September 2019 and released on bail nearly five months later.

BOSTON (CBS) – Boston Public Schools announced on Wednesday that it is suspending all in-person learning for students due to rising coronavirus numbers .

The decision is effective as of Thursday. All students will learn remotely until there are two full weeks of falling infection rates .

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Only high needs students are currently learning in the classroom as of Wednesday. The rest of the students are already learning remotely.

“BPS remains committed to providing in-person learning opportunities to our students as soon as it is appropriate to do so, and will continue to prioritize our students with the highest needs for in-person learning,” said Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius.

There are approximately 3,500 high needs students in Boston schools.

“Parents and families deserve as much predictability as possible for the next set of scenarios,” said Boston Teachers Union President.

Last week Boston announced that the start of Phase 3 in-person learning for students in Pre-K – Grade 3 was delayed by one week until October 29 at the earliest. That changed again on Wednesday.

“He was generally happy every day after school,” said Dorchester mother Danielle Johnson, who is quickly trying to adjust plans for her son Cornelle’s learning now that that Boston Public Schools are moving to a fully remote model.

The second-grader has AHDH and returned to the classroom for in-person learning earlier this month.

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“In school, we were able to see he was able to complete assignments,” said Johnson.

Boston is currently classified by the state as high-risk due to its coronavirus infection rate.

In its Wednesday announcement, the city said Boston’s seven-day average COVID-19 positive test rate was 5.7%, an increase from last week’s rate of 4.5%.

“There’s no one single factor – but when more people see more people, COVID-19 spreads,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh told WBZ-TV.

Walsh said the city is also seeing its testing levels go down. Boston was averaging 1,800 tests per day, but that number is down to 1,500 per day.

“We need to get more people tested,” said Walsh.

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