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One Virginia school district has made select Wednesdays shorter for students as teacher burnout through the coronavirus pandemic drags on.  The district’s superintendent said the move was to give teachers more time amid a historic shortage of educators. “Our teachers are just tired — they’re tired and they’re overwhelmed and dealing with a lot of the mental health issues that I think many folks are dealing with as a result of the pandemic,” Aaron Spence, superintendent of the Virginia… Source link

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the nation’s child care system is “broken.” We wanted to find out if working parents agree. Turns out, they do. In a new Yahoo Finance–Harris poll, 71% of working parents with kids under 18 said managing childcare decisions is “overwhelming.” Dads were a bit more likely to feel that way than moms, which is perhaps surprising. Among all parents—whether working or not—66% said they find childcare overwhelming. Harris polled 1,066 adult… Source link

Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China’s cities. The turquoise, blue and yellow bicycles, arranged in long lines, some piled on top of each other, bear the logos of the companies that dominate China’s bike-sharing sector — Hellobike, Didi and Meituan. Low cost-shared bikes, which users can unlock using apps and park virtually anywhere, burst onto… Source link