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Demovictory9's JournalAs schools reopen, Asian American students are missing from classrooms
It's happening in well-to-do Pakistani households in the suburbs of Washington and among Chinese restaurant workers in Philadelphia. It's happening among weary Filipino nurses in Queens, Hmong refugee families in Minneapolis and in Silicon Valley's Asian American community.
As school buildings start to reopen, Asian and Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at disproportionately high rates. They say they are worried about elderly parents in cramped, multigenerational households, distrustful of promised safety measures and afraid their children will face racist harassment at school. On the flip side, some are pleased with online learning and see no reason to risk the health of their family.
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The academic consequences could be devastating, warned Mya Baker of education nonprofit TNTP, which works with school districts across the country to boost achievement among low-income and minority students. This is especially true in communities of immigrant and refugee Asian families, she said, who are often overlooked due to the pervasiveness of the "model minority myth."
In reality, many Asian communities face the same kinds of challenges that hold back Black and Latino students, including poverty, language barriers and under-resourced schools. In New York City, more than 1 in 5 Asians live in poverty, the second highest of any racial or ethnic group, according to city data.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/As-schools-reopen-Asian-American-students-are-16000068.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
Brooklyn Academy of Music Helped Buy Its Boss a New Home. She Left in Under 6 Years with the home.
BAM Helped Buy Its Boss a New Home. She Left in Under 6 Years.
Some cultural institutions own apartments for their leaders to use. The Brooklyn Academy of Music decided to help its last leader buy one with a bonus of $968,000.
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One of the perks of leading premier cultural institutions, besides the substantial salaries, is the use of elegant apartments, which are often owned by arts organizations and passed from one top executive to the next.
But the Brooklyn Academy of Music took it a step further in 2015 when Katy Clark became its president. The organization gave its new leader nearly half the purchase price of a $1.9 million, three-bedroom prewar home overlooking Prospect Park that she could call her own.
The unusual one-time housing bonus of $968,000 came on top of her new starting salary of $355,000, which was a considerable boost from the roughly $200,000 she had been making in her prior job.
Now, after just five years in the post, Clark left BAM in January for a lower-profile job at a foundation — and the apartment has gone with her, leading to questions about the fiscal prudence of such an outlay to lure a leader whose tenure wound up being much shorter than her predecessor’s.
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“While there are instances where a board will loan an executive funds to purchase a home when they must move to a new city, it is highly unusual for these funds to be a signing bonus that the executive is allowed to keep,” he said. “It is a lovely gesture to welcome a new leader so generously but it may send signals to donors that the organization has resources to spare.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/arts/design/brooklyn-academy-of-music-apartment.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
Cat on a fast train roof holds up London to Manchester service
The tabby was spotted curled up on top of an Avanti West Coast train about half an hour before it was due to depart for Manchester at 9pm and refused to move.
Passengers were transferred to a replacement train with only a slight delay and the train was taken out of service so staff could coax the cat down from its precarious perch, where it was perilously close to the 25,000 volt overhead lines.
After a two and a half hours, the standoff came to an end when a bin was pulled up beside the carriage, giving the animal a platform on which to disembark.
The feline appeared unbothered as it alighted the train, according to station staff, who described it as “swaggering off” into the night as though it had other places to be. It is still not known how the cat reached the top of the train in the first place.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/04/cat-on-a-fast-train-roof-holds-up-london-to-manchester-service
public raises $72K via gofundme for restaurant owner forced to close due to "dine and dashers"
I wrote about how customers were ordering food for delivery then disputing the credit card charge later... putting this restaurant owner out of business : https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215150390
more here:
https://la.eater.com/2021/2/25/22301276/spoon-by-h-new-beginning-support-saved-gofundme-closing-scam-fraud-news
After Massive Outpouring of Support, Korean Hit Spoon By H Plans ‘a New Beginning’
It’s been a hectic month for Spoon By H and its fans, and that’s being mild.
The restaurant first announced on February 5 that it had been the victim of an unfortunate chargeback scam, where an unnamed diner placed “one of the largest orders we’ve ever received,” at north of $700, and picked up the food only to then fraudulently state to its payment company that the food had never been received at all. The resulting fallout spanned weeks of back-and-forth between listing platform Tock, the credit card company used to make the payment, and Spoon By H, and it ultimately left the small Korean star restaurant on the hook for the entire bill.
This week, owner Yoonjin Hwan announced that it had all been too much — the ending work and struggle to stay afloat during the ongoing pandemic and cratering of the Los Angeles restaurant industry, the failure of the federal government to offer more robust financial intervention, the ongoing chargebacks against her (and other) small businesses — so Spoon By H would be closing on Saturday, February 27.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/qwajf-save-spoon-by-h?qid=58910e5fc14de205426cbe5a919a46c3
neighbors of harassed Asian family take turns standing guard (San Clemente California)
The Way Trump Called for Donations Raised Eyebrows - he encouraged loyalists to give directly to him
The Way Trump Called for Donations Raised Eyebrows
That's because on Sunday he encouraged loyalists to give directly to him
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In his first speech since leaving office, the former president encouraged loyalists to give directly to him, saying, "There's only one way to contribute to our efforts to elect 'America First' Republican conservatives and, in turn, to make America great again. And that's through Save America PAC and donaldjtrump.com."
Interpretation: The comment, made Sunday at the annual CPAC in Orlando, Fla., was particularly notable because Trump is generally loath to ask for money in person. It amounts to the latest salvo in the battle to shape the future of the GOP, with Trump making clear that he holds no allegiance to the party's traditional fundraising operation.
https://www.newser.com/story/303221/the-way-trump-called-for-donations-raised-eyebrows.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
neighbors claim display of KKK flag because they can't afford curtains. Cops buy them curtains
It was "horrible conduct," not criminal, and a prosecutor in Michigan is encouraging the state legislature to consider changing the law so that it would be considered criminal in the future. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy on Tuesday announced that her office was unable to charge a Grosse Pointe Park man who hung a Ku Klux Klan flag in a window that faced his Black neighbor's house.
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After spotting the flag on Feb. 16, she alerted the Michigan attorney general's office and the FBI. Both said no action could be taken, so she turned to social media. Her posts went viral and spurred a march in her support, reports the Detroit Free Press. Local media called the city, and detectives visited the neighbor's home.
His girlfriend reportedly told them he couldn't afford curtains and put up the flag to cover the window, citing the security camera. Detectives returned to the home with new curtains and the flag came down.
"It's comical," Dinges said. "You can afford a Klan flag but you can't afford curtains? He does this awful thing and you give him a gift with my tax dollars."
https://www.newser.com/story/303222/the-kkk-flag-faced-her-home-without-consequence.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
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