Academy for Mathematics & English (Newfoundland)

There will be NO virtual tutoring today due to weather. Our tutors travel to the Academy to conduct the sessions and due to the weather they will not be in today.There will be NO virtual tutoring today due to weather. Our tutors travel to the Academy to conduct the sessions and due to the weather they will not be in today.

The CDC & Dr. Fauci now project that child-ready COVID-19 vaccine variations will only be available for children as young as age 5 in 2022, pushing back the original September 2021 target date. However, thanks to active, on-going clinical trials focused on adolescents, vaccines should be available for high schoolers by this September. https://www.mercedsunstar.com//calif/article249315095.html

Most infectious diseases experts believe COVID is here to stay BUT that it'll circulate in a much tamer, less disruptive way "once people develop some immunity to it either through natural infection or vaccination." According to this theory, it'll become "a foe first encountered in early childhood, when it typically causes mild infection or none at all" because that's how "four endemic coronaviruses, called OC43, 229E, NL63 and HKU1, behave," three of which have been circul...ating in humans for HUNDREDS of YEARS. In those cases, "most children first come down with these viruses before the age of 6 and develop immunity to them." Some expect a similar scenario to play out with COVID-19, with COVID-19 becoming a seasonal flu-like disease with a much tamer mortality rate. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00396-2

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When Amazon founder Bezos looks for the smartest people in the world to join his various enterprises, he looks for people who constantly revise their understanding of things and reconsider problems they thought they had already solved. Bezos sees such people as "open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking" which he views as a sign of intellectual humility. Bezos knows what Socrates knew and what famed... Canadian music artist, K'naan, paraphrased in song lyrics some time ago, "Any [person] who knows a thing knows, he knows not a . . . thing at all!" Paradoxically, the smartest people around know they know nothing at all: that's why their insatiable quest to learn, grow, and improve never ends. Now that is something we can all learn from. https://www.inc.com//this-is-number-1-sign-of-high-intelli

Parents, I have sent out ZOOM and Google drive links to every family continuing with our live virtual tutoring. Please email me if you have not received them. Thank you Karen [email protected]

Bay Roberts Academy is closed for in person tutoring due to the updated mandate. Don't fall behind during lockdown, Call now to book your live-virtual sessions.

"The United Nations says the pandemic has caused the largest disruption in education in history, with more than a billion students affected since July last year." Now that's a profoundly sad showstopper of a statement. But perhaps we can find some succor for the soul in the results of "recent peer-reviewed research published in the American Institute of Physics" which found that "closing schools only slightly reduced by four per cent the number of infections among the population aged 25 and under." This was based on data from hard hit New York City. https://globalnews.ca//school-closures-covid-19-spread-st/