Balancing Act: 'My students and their families aren't numbers, they are people.' A teacher's case for keeping schools closed.
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
Jul 21, 2020
3 minutes
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David Stieber teaches social studies and poetry at Chicago's Kenwood Academy High School. His wife is also a Chicago Public Schools teacher. Their two sons attend a CPS elementary school.
When it comes to reopening classrooms this fall, he has a lot of skin in the game.
"If I were in charge I would call it right now," Stieber told me Thursday. "We'd be all virtual."
Stieber wrote an essay last Monday headlined, "Educators will always pick science over capitalized tweets to
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