80 gather to protest in-person instruction in Memphis schools
Memphis/Shelby County United, a group of Shelby County Schools teachers and parents, held a back-to-school protest on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, at the SCS Board of Education parking lot. The organization offered a list of demands, one being that students should learn online until Shelby County has no new COVID-19 positive tests for 14 days. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Laura Faith Kebede
Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
A Memphis protest echoes a growing call from teachers to start the school year online as coronavirus cases rise nationwide. A recent study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea showed that children over age 10 spread the coronavirus as easily as adults do.
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