JANUARY 15, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
Schools still planning for Feb. opening
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
After Gov. Kate Brown
announced last month the
goal of having students re-
turn to in-person classes by
mid-February, the leaders of
Salem-Keizer Public Schools
(SKPS) have been coming up
with a plan to have kids safely
re-enter their school build-
ings.
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, as-
sistant superintendent Kraig
Sproles addressed the Sa-
lem-Keizer School Board and
informed them where the
district was at in the reopen-
ing process.
The message that ele-
mentary students are the
priority and will be the fi rst
ones to return to school has
been consistent throughout
the pandemic. That empha-
sis hasn’t changed as Sproles
stated that getting elementa-
ry students back to in-person
instruction will be the dis-
trict’s main focus.
“Some of the gaps that
happen in early elementa-
ry are really hard to get over
with a digital learning expe-
rience. If you can’t read and
you don’t have someone to sit
next to you to help you nav-
igate a computer, it’s going to
be hard to learn to read. That’s
why that focus is there,” Spro-
struction, that still is a hybrid
les said.
Over the last sever- model. They will still have
al months, SKPS has been the digital learning compo-
working collaboratively with nent,” Sproles said. “When we
Marion County and Polk bring back students, we will
have to cohort
County health
students real-
author ities.
ly tightly. We
The
groups
need to follow
are still in the
all of our phys-
process of de-
ical distancing,
veloping
a
our facial cov-
vaccination
erings and our
schedule for
35 square feet
SKPS educa-
per person in
tors.
a space. All of
H oweve r,
those things
Sproles
did
still need to be
inform
the
followed.”
board
that
If or when
school nurses,
a student tests
occupational
positive
for
therapists and
C OV I D - 1 9 ,
physical thera-
the cohort will
pists in the dis-
return to tem-
trict received
porary online
vaccinations
learning.
on Jan. 4.
“We
will
While the
— Kraig Sproles
have
cas-
district is do-
es from the
ing their best
communi-
to bring stu-
dents back to in-person ty brought into our schools.
learning, Sproles clarifi ed that That just is something that
students would still be under will happen. When that hap-
a hybrid model and would be pens, we will work closely
in cohorts that go to class ei- with Marion and Polk to iso-
ther Tuesday and Thursday or late the cases and trace them
down using contact tracing,
Wednesday and Friday.
“When we say bringing which means we may have to
students in for in-person in- pull out cohorts of students,”
“When we
say bringing
students in
for in-person
instruction,
that still is a
hybrid model.
They will still
have the dig-
ital learning
component.”
Sproles said. “That’s the posi-
tive of the cohort. If you have
a few people test positive, you
don’t have to shut down the
entire school.”
Assistant superintendent
Iton Udosenata also shared
that the district will be solic-
iting feedback on in-person
plans from educators, students
and others in the community.
“We want to maximize our
communication to make sure
that all community mem-
bers know the details about
how we plan to bring stu-
dents back safely. But we also
want to give an opportunity
for parents and community
members to ask questions and
provide input that we will
bring back to our planning
teams as we move forward,”
Udosenata said.
Netfl ix’s Ava misses
on most cylinders
Submitted
Jessica Chastain plays an assassin with too many family issues, according to our reviewer, in the
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By TJ REID
For the Keizertimes
When I was in middle
school, my friend Ryan intro-
duced me to a southern tradi-
tion of eating grilled cheese
sandwiches with maple syrup.
Needless to say, I was a bit
skeptical that this combina-
tion could be anything other
than disgusting, but after much
prodding I discovered that it
was actually pretty delicious.
Some of our most tasty foods
come from what might be ini-
tially unexpected unions, and
the same can be said of our
entertainment. Take Hamilton,
for example; rap and American
history? Weird. But it works.
Fortune favors the bold, but
there are some combinations
that just do not work. Director
Tate Taylor and screenwriter
Matthew Newton prove this
with Ava, a new Netfl ix fi lm
that attempts to mix famil-
ial drama with assassin action,
and what results is a surpris-
ingly dull slog in which both
ingredients end up feeling like
pointless sublots.
The biggest problem is that
both the family stuff and the
assassination stuff have very
little to do with one anoth-
er. Ava, played by the usually
great Jessica Chastain, is an ace
killer who gets a target put on
her after… asking too many
questions, I guess? She then
goes home and has to deal
with a cantan-
kerous moth-
er who never
gives me any
reason to like
her, a bratty
sister who never gives me
any reason to like her, and an
ex-fi ancé who has the per-
sonality of a two-by-four (and
who also never gives me any
reason to like him). I suppose
the two disparate plots would
have been fi ne on their own
if they were done well, but I
can’t really say that they were.
The action ranges from bland
to adequate, and I guarantee
you that none of it is some-
thing that you haven’t seen a
thousand times already in bet-
ter movies. The drama, on the
other hand, is made up of your
typical soap opera-y grievanc-
es that have all the originality
of an “entertainment as food”
metaphor.
All of this goes to show that
when you have two plots that
feel like sublots, nothing really
seems to happen at all. Two-
thirds of the way in, things
were still starting to take shape
with the assassination angle,
and by the end Colin Farrell
(a great actor who
really needs to fi re
his agent at this
point) is fi ghting
Jessica Chastain
for some reason,
and it feels like the story hasn’t
gone anywhere beyond setting
the stage.
“Some reason,” “I guess…”
Maybe I should have just paid
more attention, right? The
thing is, I did. In addition to
the aforementioned problems
that this movie has, there is also
the fact that a lot of the things
the characters do just don’t
make any damn sense. Why
would Colin Farrell (What’s
the point of learning the char-
acter’s name?) himself go after
Ava if he is in charge of the
whole shadowy super-secret
assassin agency? Why did the
assassin sent before him decide
it was a good idea to just try
and stab Ava in the middle of
a public park? Why do they
think she needs to be taken out
anyway? I don’t have the an-
swers for you, nor do I care to
learn them. Just skip this one,
yeah?
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