Friday, September 17, 2021
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Hezbollah
brings Iran fuel
to Lebanon
despite US
sanctions
AL-AIN,
—
Lebanon
Dozens of
(AP)
trucks carrying Iranian
diesel arrived in
Lebanon on Thursday,
the first in a series of de-
liveries organized by the
militant Hezbollah. The
powerful group operates
This undated photo provided by Jimmy Hoffmeyer shows
his daughter Jurnee Hoffmeyer before a classmate and a
teacher cut her hair on separate occasions. Jimmy
Hoffmeyer has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school
district, a librarian and a teacher assistant Thursday. The
lawsuit alleges that the girl’s constitutional rights were vio-
lated, racial discrimination, ethnic intimidation, intentional
infliction of emotional distress and assault and
battery.(Jimmy Hoffmeyer via AP)
independently
from
Lebanese authorities,
which are struggling to
deal with a crippling en-
ergy crisis.
The overland delivery
through
neighboring
Emily Goss goes over school work at the kitchen table with her 5-year-old son inside their
Monroe, N.C., home on Monday. The Goss' have decided to homeschool Berkeley after the
Union County school district chose not to implement a mask mandate for children. (AP pho-
to)
Syria violates U.S. sanc-
tions imposed on Tehran
after former President
Donald Trump pulled
America out of a nuclear
deal between Iran and
world powers in 2018.
The shipment is being
portrayed as a victory by
Lawsuit seeks $1M
after Michigan teacher
cuts young girl’s hair
Outbreaks strand some students
at home with minimal learning
Hezbollah,
which
stepped in to supply the
fuel from its patron, Iran,
while the cash-strapped
Lebanese government
grapples with months-
long fuel shortages that
have paralyzed the coun-
try.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first dents to return to the classroom as long as they
week back at school after a year and a half, 7- aren't known to be infected or have no symp-
year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a class- toms. On Wednesday, the state's top health of-
mate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, ficial threatened legal action against the district
along with 7,000 other students in the district, unless it returns to stricter quarantine proce-
MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) — The father of a 7-year-
old Michigan girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without
her parents’ permission has filed a $1 million lawsuit
against the school district, a librarian and a teacher’s assis-
tant.
for 14 days of quarantine.
Not much learning went on in Ben's home.
dures.
Union County school officials said they are
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Grand
Rapids against Mount Pleasant Public Schools,
MLive.com reported. It alleges that the biracial girl’s con-
stitutional rights were violated, racial discrimination, eth-
nic intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress
and assault and battery.
Jimmy Hoffmeyer, who is Black and White, said that in
March that his daughter arrived home from Ganiard Ele-
mentary with much of the hair on one side of her head cut.
Jurnee said a classmate used scissors to cut her hair on a
school bus, Hoffmeyer told The Associated Press in April.
Two days after the bus incident — and after complain-
ing to the principal and having Jurnee’s hair styled at a sa-
lon with an asymmetrical cut to make the differing lengths
less obvious — Jurnee arrived home with the hair on the
other side cut.
“I asked what happened and said ‘I thought I told you no
child should ever cut your hair,’” Hoffmeyer said at the
time. “She said ‘but dad, it was the teacher.’ The teacher
cut her hair to even it out.”
Jurnee’s mother is white. Hoffmeyer said the girl who cut
Jurnee’s hair and the teacher who cut it are white.
The district “failed to properly train, monitor, direct, dis-
cipline, and supervise their employees, and knew or should
have known that the employees would engage in the com-
plained of behavior given the improper training, customs,
procedures, and policies, and the lack of discipline that ex-
isted for employees,” according to the lawsuit.
The Associated Press left messages Thursday seeking
comment from the district, which is located about 150
miles (241 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. About 4% of
Mount Pleasant’s 25,000 residents are Black, according to
the U.S. Census.
In July, the Mount Pleasant Public Schools Board of Ed-
ucation said the staffer who cut Jurnee’s hair was repri-
manded and that an independent third-party investigation
determined that despite “good intentions” of the worker
who cut the girl’s hair, doing so without permission from
her parents and without the knowledge of district adminis-
trators violated school policy.
Two other employees were aware of the incident but did-
n’t report it. All three employees have apologized, the
board said.
The school board said the independent investigation
found no racial bias and included interviews with district
personnel, students and families and a review of video and
photos, including posts on social media. District adminis-
trators also performed an internal review of the incident.
But Hoffmeyer said the district never questioned him or
Jurnee. She now attends another school.
On some days last week, the second-grader not offering virtual instruction but are contact-
was given no work by his teachers. On others, ing parents of affected children to help them
he was done by 9:30 a.m., his daily assign- line up tutors or other help for their youngsters.
ments consisting of solving 10 math problems One in 6 students in the mask-optional district
or punctuating four sentences, according to his were quarantined last week.
"This is a very big and
great thing for us be-
cause we broke the siege
of America and foreign
countries. ... We are
working with the help of
God and our great moth-
er Iran," said Nabiha
Idriss, a Hezbollah sup-
porter gathered with oth-
ers to greet the convoy
as it passed through the
eastern town of Al-Ain.
There was no immedi-
ate comment from
Lebanese or U.S. offi-
cials on the Iranian fuel
delivery. Local com-
mentators said Washing-
ton, worried about chaos
in Lebanon amid raging,
multiple crises, may
have decided to look the
other way.
Hezbollah has por-
trayed the Lebanese eco-
nomic meltdown, which
began in late 2019, as
partly caused by an in-
formal siege imposed by
America due to the mili-
tant group's power and
influence in Lebanon.
The group — designated
a terrorist organization
by Washington — has
been sanctioned by con-
secutive U.S. adminis-
trations.
mother.
In the rural district of Wellington, Kansas,
"It was very much just thrown together and students got a week off from schoolwork when
very, very, very easy work," Kenan Medlin a COVID-19 outbreak struck. Instead of going
said.
online, the district decided to add 10 minutes
As coronavirus outbreaks driven by the delta to each day to make up for the lost time when
variant lead districts around the U.S. to abrupt- it reopened on Tuesday. Masks also are re-
ly shut down or send large numbers of children quired now.
into quarantine at home, some students are get-
ting minimal schooling.
Districts in Kansas risk losing funding if they
offer online or hybrid learning for more than
Despite billions of dollars in federal money 40 hours per student per year.
at their disposal to prepare for new outbreaks
In Georgia, Ware County's 6,000-student
and develop contingency plans, some gover- district halted schooling altogether for three
nors, education departments and local school weeks in mid-August. The district said it was
boards have been caught flat-footed.
unreasonable for teachers to have to offer vir-
Also, some school systems have been hand- tual and in-person instruction at the same time.
cuffed by state laws or policies aimed at keep- It also cited a lack of internet service in some
ing students in classrooms and strongly dis- rural areas.
couraging or restricting a return to remote
In Missouri, the Board of Education rescind-
learning.The disruptions — and the risk that ed a rule in July that allowed school districts to
youngsters will fall further behind academical- offer hybrid and remote instruction for months
ly — have been unsettling for parents and edu- at a time. Districts that close entirely because
cators alike.
of COVID-19 outbreaks, as eight small rural
The school board in Ben's district in Union school systems have done this year, now are
County, outside Charlotte, relented on Monday limited to 36 hours of alternative instruction,
and voted to allow most of its quarantining stu- such as Zoom classes.
Happiness
Starts Here
Lebanon's crisis is
rooted in decades of cor-
ruption and mismanage-
ment by the ruling class
and a sectarian-based
political system that
thrives on patronage and
nepotism.
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Disqualification from Ballot Based Upon Contents of Affidavit of Identity rule set.
At least 15 weeks before the August primary election, candidates filing nominating petitions, qualifying petitions or a filing fee
to access the ballot for the August primary must also file an affidavit of identity. MCL 168.558. Candidates must certify they
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