Five school districts had huge increases in voter turnout in Tuesday’s school board elections, with some doubling or tripling their vote count from last year’s election. At the same time, seven districts with contested races actually saw a decrease in voter participation since last year. Many observers hoped to see the statewide forums and increased interest in what’s happening in …
School board elections underway; polls close at 8 p.m.
Red Clay candidates have placed their campaign signs around North Star Elementary School in Hockessin. (Jarek Rutz/Delaware LIVE News) It’s election day in Delaware. On the ballot: 38 candidates throughout the state in what has turned out to be one of the most divisive and partisan school board elections in memory. Patriots for Delaware sent out an email at 2 …
Town Square LIVE Weekly Review – September 30, 2021
Hover over the image below and a gray bar pops up at the bottom—scroll through the pdf, use direction arrows, zoom in or out, download the PDF, or view in full-screen mode. [pdf-embedder url=”https://townsquaredelaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/TSD-Sept-30.pdf” title=”TSD Sept 30″] This Week’s Top Headlines Include: COMMUNITY For private schools and prospective students, it’s Admission Season Longwood Christmas embraces opposites with fire and ice …
Patriots for Delaware says it found proof of election fraud
230-plus people file out of Tuesday’s Patriots of Delaware election fraud meeting in Milford. Patriots for Delaware on Tuesday said they had evidence of dead people voting in the November 2020 election as well as nursing homes submitting more ballots than they had available beds. The group doesn’t believe the fraud they claim to have found would have …
More than 100 attend panel on alternative COVID-19 treatments
More than 100 people attended a Monday night panel about alternatives to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments Update: This story has been altered to reflect a change of employment by a panel member. More than 100 people gathered in Newark Monday evening to hear a panel of medical officials offer alternative ways to deal with COVID-19. Panelists denounced COVID-19 vaccines …
Among education options is ‘unschooling,’ anti-mask parents told
About 30 people attended the Milford meeting, including two families with children. Parents who don’t want their kids going back to school wearing masks heard about a variety of options Thursday night during a town hall meeting at Milford Senior Center. The choices included traditional education alternatives, including private and parochial schools, homeschooling, learning pods and even “unschooling.” …
Learning pods, microschools planned to take kids out of state schools
A group of parents who oppose the school mask mandate are working on creating a coalition of homeschooling options that essentially would work like a series of one-room schoolhouses. Photo by Meg Bouldon/Unsplash A group of Delawareans upset about the state’s school mask mandate are working to create alternative education methods for students. The group hopes to build coalitions …
Moms say they will keep kids home rather than send to school masked
Some Delaware parents say they will keep their children out of classrooms rather than send them wearing a mask. Some parents who oppose Gov. John Carney’s mandate requiring school children and those in childcare to wear masks indoors say they will not send their kids back to school. “For my kid personally, it’s not good for his mental …