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    FCPS families lobby school board to save remote learning program

    By Sylvia Carignan scarignan@newspost.com,

    23 days ago
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    At home during a typical virtual school day, Jackson Medwid sat with his feet tucked up on a swivel chair, lined with a pink blanket adorned with cartoon corgis. On the laptop in front of him, his teacher and fellow students talked about nonviolent protests and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    Jackson, a fifth grader in Frederick County Public Schools’ Remote Virtual Program, hasn’t attended class in person since first grade. With the possibility of a fire or even a shooting at school, he feels safest learning at home, he told The Frederick News-Post during his lunch break Friday.

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