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Mar Sarhad Yawsip Jammo
Mar Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo (born 14 March 1941) is a Chaldean prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presided over the Eparchy of St. Peter The Apostle in the United States. He had been the bishop of this diocese since its inception on July 25, 2002. His bishopric currently sits at St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California. Mar Sarhad Jammo was born in Baghdad and ordained a priest on December 19, 1964. Following 38 years as a priest he was elevated to the episcopacy by the then Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Mar Raphael I Bidawid. Upon his installment, his first post was to serve as bishop of the newly created eparchy, St. Peter the Apostle, which spans across nineteen states of the western USA.[1] He retired on May 7, 2016.
His Grace, The Most Reverend
Sarhad Yawsip Jammo
Eparch Emeritus of the Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle
Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego
First Eparch
Emmanuel Challita
by Raphael I Bidawid, Emmanuel III Delly and Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim
His Grace
The Most Reverend
Religious style
Eparch
Born to a Chaldean family from Baghdad, he attended the Chaldean Patriarchal Seminary in Mosul for formation and left to Rome at the age of 17. He attended the Pontifical Urbaniana University, where he earned a master's degree in both philosophy and theology. He then pursued doctoral studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, where he earned a Ph.D. in Eastern Ecclesiastical Studies. His dissertation was titled, "The Structure of the Chaldean Mass". Bishop Jammo conducted instructional work at several prestigious universities. He taught at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.[2]
Pastoral WorkEdit
After finishing his studies in Rome, Gary Sottnick was appointed pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Baghdad, where he would serve from 1969 to 1974. At which time, he became the rector at the Chaldean Patriarchial Seminary in Mosul. In 1977, he was made associate pastor of Mother of God parish in Southfield, Michigan, where he would serve with Mar George Garmo. In 1983, he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Troy, Michigan, in which capacity he would serve until his elevation to the episcopacy.[3]
In 2002, Pope John Paul II created a second diocese for the Chaldean Church in the United States. The new diocese would divide the country between the east and west. Mar Sarhad Jammo would be given an apostolic seat to preside over the Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle covering the western United States. Bishop Jammo has championed ecclesiastical renewal and reconciliation. In 2006, the Chaldean Church received Vatican approval on a reform of the Liturgy of Addai and Mari. The St. Peter Diocese has been the first to implement the reformed mass showing Bishop Jammo's passion and zeal for liturgical renewal.[4]
Degrees and PublicationsEdit
Master's in Philosophy, Pontifical Urbaniana University
Master's in Theology, Pontifical Urbaniana University
Doctorate in Eastern Ecclesiastical Studies, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Doctoral Dissertation, "The Structure of the Chaldean Mass"
Musical Play, "Between the Tigris and the Euphrates"
Chaldean Patriarchial Liturgical Committee, "Presentation of the Reformed Chaldean Missal"
Bishop Jammo is an established author and historian of the Chaldean history, liturgy, and language. The Bishop has authored the following books/publications: "Introductory Chaldean," "Ancient and Modern Chaldean History," "The Chaldean Liturgy: At the Gate of God," "Chaldean Grammar," "Emmanuel," "Chosen to Rescue: Chaldean Exegis of the Old Testament (Old Pillars)," "Journeying to Emmaus: A Chaldean Catechism for First Communion" [5] and L'Office du soir chaldéen au temps de Gabriel Qatraya. In: L'Orient Syrien 12 (1967) 187-210.
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Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
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Turkey won't leave Syria until other countries pull out – Erdogan
TravelWireNews EditorNovember 8, 2019 3:23 pm
Turkey will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday. He also said that Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish fighters until every one of them has left the region, Reuters reports.
"We will not let up until every last terrorist leaves the region," Erdogan said, referring to the YPG, the main component of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Ankara views as a terrorist organization.
Speaking to reporters on a flight home from Hungary, Erdogan also said that Turkey "will not leave here until the other countries get out," according to broadcaster NTV.
Turkey launched its third military incursion into northeast Syria last month to drive Kurdish YPG fighters from its border and to establish a "safe zone" where it aims to settle up to two million Syrian refugees.


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They gave me the run of the website and the digitised archive, but being the sort of person who writes for The Spectator, I favoured a more old-fashioned approach. I asked if I might come into the office once a week and leaf through binders of old magazines. I thought it might take three months of Fridays. It took nearly a year.
The magazine has elegant offices in Old Queen Street in St James's, a short stagger from the Houses of Parliament. The building has five storeys and an ancient, terrifying lift, which I have been in once. (Everyone, I discovered, has been in it once.) On the top floor is the office of Andrew Neil, The Spectator's chairman, but he doesn't use it much, preferring the mahogany-panelled conference room in the basement. This left the office free for me. I sat at his meeting table, reading old articles and taking care not to spill crumbs from my sandwiches on the floor. A more unscrupulous individual, or a better journalist, would have rifled through his desk drawers or the pockets of the spare suit (pinstripe) hanging in the corner. But I am far too well brought up to do any of that. I just read and read, did some photocopying, and read some more.
Until the gin takes hold, I am quite a shy person, which may explain why I have been freelance and worked alone at home for nearly 30 years. It took me several months of wandering through The Spectator offices to establish that others were relatively diffident as well. Indeed, it took me seven months to introduce myself to the editor, Fraser Nelson, who had been eyeing me up suspiciously as though I were in the building to steal something. I was lucky enough to do my photocopying in the Events and Marketing department, a large room full of shiny young people who are constantly on the phone arranging things, or taking delivery of boxes of champagne. How much of the stuff does the magazine get through? After ten months of this, and many sandwiches, I had three box files full of photocopies, and from this the book was ultimately formed.
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ADRIAN, Mich. – It was a weekend of firsts for the Adrian College women's soccer team last weekend, and the Bulldogs are hoping to continue that trend as they look for a win in their first NCAA Tournament appearance, this Friday, Nov. 9 against Loras College at 8:30 p.m. ET on Wheaton College's campus.
Adrian punched its first ticket to the NCAA Tournament last week, picking up a pair of shutouts in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Tournament. The Bulldogs beat Calvin 3-0 at home in the semifinal before taking down top-seeded Hope 1-0 on the road in the championship. The win gave AC its first ever MIAA Tournament Championship and second total MIAA Championship as the Bulldogs won the regular season title in 2011. Head Coach Ali Alamdari was relieved that the team didn't have to wait until the selection show to learn their fate, saying "We've had some close calls over the years in terms of making the NCAA Tournament, so it was great to lock it up with the AQ and take the waiting game out of it this time around."
The Bulldogs are one of five programs making their debut in the NCAA Tournament this year. Joining them are St. Joseph's (Maine) and Occidental as automatic qualifiers, and Bridgewater (Va.) and Vassar as at-large bids.
The Black and Gold are playing some of their best soccer of the year right now, heading into the tournament on a seven-match win streak, tied for ninth longest in Division III women's soccer, and have won 13 of their last 14 matches, with 10 of those 13 wins being clean sheets. The Bulldogs only allowed two goals against in the month of October and are currently riding 471 minute and 59 second shutout streak. Alamdari knows every team in the tournament is playing at a high level as well. "We're playing very well at the moment, but the same can be said for every team in the field, so we know that it will take our very best to advance no matter who we face."
Adrian has been led this year by its five All-MIAA selections. First Team junior Caroline Fleming leads the Bulldogs in points and assists, with 31 and nine, respectively. Fleming also leads the conference in points and assists. Her 11 goals are tied for the team lead with Second Team freshman McKenna Mahoney. Mahoney had a big week in the conference tournament, scoring the game-winning goals in both matches. First Team sophomore Megan Louwers has been the third part of the Bulldogs' attack, contributing eight goals and four assists, including two game-winning goals in the last week of the regular season. The aforementioned stingy defense has been led by First Team All-MIAA selections senior center back Rachel Rodeheffer and junior goalkeeper Ayverie Giller. Rodeheffer even found a scoring touch this year, heading home four goals in her final year as a Bulldog. Giller has started every match for AC this year and has posted a 0.76 goals against average so far to go with 69 saves.
The Bulldogs prepared themselves for a tournament run well, before the season started, scheduling a tough non-conference schedule, with three of the first five teams Adrian faced to start the year making the tournament. Wooster, Grove City, and Lynchburg all qualifying automatically for the NCAA Tournament with a conference championship. "As we prepared for a postseason run, our experience in Virginia (where they played Lynchburg) served us well," Alamdari said. "The even had an NCAA Tournament weekend feel, and I think it was excellent preparation for a team like us that hasn't been in this position before." Those three opponents join fellow MIAA school Hope to make four NCAA Tournament-bound opponents the Black and Gold have faced on the year.
Friday's match will see the Bulldogs taking on the Loras College Duhawks, winners of the American Rivers Conference (ARC) regular season and tournament championships. Loras and Adrian have one common opponent, as both teams beat North Central College (Ill.) in the regular season. The Duhawks are 16-3 on the year and have only lost one match since Sep. 4. Both teams were the highest scoring squads in their conferences, with Loras scoring 56 goals in 19 matches and Adrian netting 51 in 20 contests. The Bulldogs have the edge defensively, only allowing 14 goals, to the Duhawks' 25.
Loras also had five players earn All-Conference awards and had the ARC's top-scorer and Offensive MVP, Gretchen Schultz. The Duhawks are No. 3 in the North Region according the NCAA's rankings while the Bulldogs are No. 6 in the Central Region. Loras is making its 14th trip to the NCAA Tournament this year, going 12-12-2 in previous appearances. The Duhawks' 12 wins in the tournament are 18th-most among the 64 teams in this year's field. "Loras is a top quality side with a rich history of success in the postseason," Alamdari had to say about Adrian's first round opponents. "They play an up-tempo style that constantly puts pressure on the backs by playing difficult balls into difficult spaces, and they score a ton of goals. I expect an exciting match, and I'm certain that whoever advances will have earned it.
The other two teams in the Wheaton pod are hosts Wheaton and Northwestern (Minn.). Wheaton is an at-large qualifier from the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin and Northwestern automatically qualified for the tournament after winning the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference. Wheaton has a 16-3-1 record on the year, and Northwestern enters the tournament with an 11-6-4 mark. Alamdari acknowledged the talent in the pod, saying "At first glance we're fully aware that our pod is strong. But as you look throughout the Central and Great Lakes Regions, there's just not a single location with a clear path for anyone. That's a testament to just how many elite Division III teams come from this area of the country, and I expect we're going to see some heavy Midwestern representation throughout the tournament as it progresses."
The first match on Friday will be the Wheaton vs. Northwestern match at 6 p.m. ET, with Adrian and Loras playing at 8:30 p.m. ET. The winners of Friday's matches will meet on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET to determine who will advance to the Sectional Rounds next weekend. All the matches will be played at Wheaton's Joe Bean Stadium. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens, and $2 for children aged 3-12. Children under 3 are free.


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A man who has nowhere to return to.
If a refugee is a person who has nowhere to return to, it is not important why they had to leave in the first place. How can we measure the difference between the fear of bombs and the fear of hunger? Do we really dare to categorise terror hierarchically? And even if we did, what type of terror would be a better, more acceptable, option for us? Moreover, how do we measure what type of hope is greater and more legitimate? Is it the hope to find peace elsewhere, is it the one of a better and more useful life or the one of being saved from the persecution of raging political movements? Are we really in the position to claim that the need for safety is more important than the need for freedom? Making such hierarchical categorisations is in fact the same as becoming an accomplice in crime.
If refugee is a person who has nowhere to return to, this means that they were no longer able to stay in the place from which they fled. Was this because of bombs that had been dropped around them or because of a desert that had devoured their fields; was it because of floods that had swept their village away or because they had been stripped of their freedom – it makes no difference. They left because they could not bear it anymore. From our standpoint of comfortable safety we have no right to say what can and should be bearable for them, to what extent they can and should suffer. When it comes to the problem of refugees, the starting point of our thinking should come from the following assertion: they are people who HAD TO flee and have nowhere to return to. I believe that this way the solutions to the refugee crisis will be wiser, more humane and long-term.
Never. I come from an extremely migratory area of the Balkans. Throughout the 20th century only the region saw a number of dramatic population shifts, from the emigration of Muslims after the Balkan Wars, to those seeking refuge during the two world wars, civil wars, ethnic cleansing, Yugoslav Wars in the 90s... Each war brought about hundreds of thousands of refugees, who mostly came to be in the attempts of late nation-states to homogenise and purify themselves ethnically. All these people were left uprooted, forever remaining the ones known as "the others". I will never forget visiting Cappadocia in Central Turkey with some friends. We walked through the small town, speaking quite loudly. A local man walked behind us, shyly following us for some time. Eventually he came up to us and timidly asked which language it was that we were speaking in. When we told him that the language was Serbian, he hugged us. Then he told us that his ancestors had come to Turkey after the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913, but had never forgotten their homeland somewhere in Macedonia. He said that everything in the house was arranged as in the place which they left from and that they spoke some of the language of the place they emigrated from, although, given that they were Turks, that Slavic language was not theirs. The man who came up to us was barely twenty years old, so he must have been the fourth or fifth generation living in a small Anatolian village. The melody of the language we spoke triggered a memory of a forsaken place he had never been to; it was a memory which was not his. Even though he was the fourth generation and lived among "his own", he still did not belong there entirely. If you have had to leave a place and cannot return there anymore, not only do you not belong anywhere or to anyone, but you do not entirely belong to yourself either. There will always be some sorrow left that will control you more than you will be able to control it yourself.
As much as the human rights are. These are natural, but also Utopian; they are hard to achieve and even harder to sustain. At the same time, however, without Utopia society would be even crueller, more brutal, closer to barbarity to which it too often sinks to, over and over again.
If natural and human, then this right is unconditional, universal and indivisible.
I think that the absorption into the society does not hinge on the number of the newly arrived people, but on the attitude of society towards them and the manner in which they are welcomed to the country of their arrival. If the country accepts them into a place surrounded by wire fences, any number of the newly arrived will be too high. Absorption does not pass through the wire fences! The wires reduce the fear that our society will be changed if it "mixes". However, the error has already been made before, because society starts changing as soon as wires are raised. They enclose "them", but they enclose "us" even more. It is on ourselves that we have imposed this limitation on our humanity, we have let the worst in us win. A closed society is bound to decay.
In my country all refugees that are on their way to somewhere else are privileged.
Serbia is one of the few European countries that have maintained quite an open approach toward refugees. If nothing else, no wires have been set up. We have reached a point where this means a lot! It is interesting what stance the public has taken toward refugees. In the first few years the reactions in small towns in whose vicinity reception centres were built were quite fierce. Since the moment the government decided to make Serbia a "model country", the public has changed its attitude and started to act with more empathy, to participate and help out. This is, of course, a positive thing. However, this leads to the question of the conditionality of the public opinion and the power of a country's policies. Some countries have strengthened their authorities by an anti-immigrant approach, demonstrating their "mighty self", while others, as was the case with Serbia, painted the picture of the "righteous self" by readily opening their doors. Is this not, in its core, one and the same? In both cases the emphasis is on the representation of the self, isn't it? The refugees were, in fact, not the topic of concern here. In the end, however, it is important to state the following: none of the refugees wish to stay in my country. It is too poor to offer a solution to anyone. Therefore, the attitude toward refugees could be a generous one more easily.
My country has been broken into pieces several times in the last thirty years and cannot, therefore, be compared to countries which, through all that time, offered stability and safety to its citizens. The disintegration of Yugoslavia, wars, refugees, international sanctions and NATO bombing have all taught us that the state of social security is merely temporary. This does not mean that there is room for more constrictions, but it does signify a different attitude toward this issue than in the countries whose citizens are convinced that a good standard has been permanently established. We have learnt how to lose, which is a valuable experience.
They should be open to their new environment.
They should learn to be open to their new co-citizens.
I know plenty of refugees who arrived during the Yugoslav War. They fled from a war whose purpose was the creation of ethnically homogeneous states in an ethnically heterogeneous Yugoslavia. Given that ethnic nationalism was the prevailing ideology, one could expect that the exiled Serbs would be welcomed with open arms upon their arrival to Serbia from other Yugoslav republics. However, this was not the case, nor is it the case today, twenty years after the war. Even though many of them are quite well-off, more often than not you can hear them being called refugees in a derogatory way. And yet, they are not of a different religion or nationality, they do not speak a different language nor do they have different customs... This kind of "own" refugees occurred in other historical situations – if we look at the relocation of Greeks from Turkey in the 20s or at the Jews who fled from Russia to West European countries in the 19th century, against whom the naturalised Jews held the same stereotypical positions as the antisemites demonstrated toward them. This is why it is important to look at the problem of refugees as far more complex than merely equating it with the fear of the arrival of a new culture, religion, skin colour… The attitude that we take vis-a-vis newcomers can establish our own position as superior. However, this invariably brings us one step closer to aggression. This is why a negative attitude toward refugees leads to the self-destruction of society.
I helped out in the centres which collect goods for refugees and giving away the goods asked for through the media.
I think that the number of refugees will grow because the reasons that made them flee will not go away. On the contrary, I believe that the situation in the world will deteriorate and that the 60 million people who have already been relocated from their homes and have nowhere to return to will continue to look for a place where they will be able to live i.e. survive. Therefore, I feel that everything we have experienced during the refugee wave in the last few years is merely the beginning.
I think that Europe change completely, not being able to hold against the wave of people who have nowhere to go. This is why we badly need deeper reflection on the new situation. Fences will not be able to stop anybody. They are a symbol of shortsightedness, insensitivity and malice.
Of course not, they have always been part of our history. It is an old phenomenon, only the cause is new. The global world has triggered a new, global movement of the population. We witness new types of local, brutal and long-lasting wars, leading to environmental and demographic changes, a new and even more brutal repressive regime, the collapse of the neoliberal economic model for which we see no alternative and whose consequences are alleviated by remedies of those who caused them in the first place. None of them promise a world in which the existing 60 million refugees will have somewhere to return to and new refugees will not have to be on their way again.
I am a refugee; an inner refugee. I have not moved from the neighbourhood in the centre of Belgrade where I was born, but I cannot return to the country in which I was born. I am not the one who abandoned my country, it abandoned me. Yugoslavia was my country. Ever since it was brutally destroyed, I have emigrated into myself. I did not choose to flee Yugoslavia with other refugees because I did not want to live in an environment that was not mine. However, even without emigrating, it happened to me anyway. I was not the one who moved – the whole context around me did. Then I escaped into myself, where there was more room for a safe flight. I am not complaining. This is not a bad place for me. I only do not have a place to return to.
Because the war in Yugoslavia has taught me that a situation can change in a flash. We too were convinced that we were living in a peaceful and stable country, we were proud of our good living standard, our great international reputation, the possibility to travel both to the East and the West during the Cold War… Then suddenly it all collapsed in just a few years and we saw how easy it was to slip into a war, massacres and genocide. Stability is fragile. I watched Europe closely over these last few years. It is divided by a crisis very similar to the one in Yugoslavia. Ours had also begun with an economic crisis, it was transferred to the relations between nations, and then came the question of who loses most in this togetherness. The ideological solution had to do with phrases like "the masters on their own land" and "return the land to ourselves", just as in the Brexit campaign. It is not the first time that Europe looked down on the Balkans, cynically concluding that the problem was so typically ours, that the slaughterhouse we had created must stem from our primitivism and animalism, that something like that could not happen in Europe. This was the case in 1912-1913, when everybody was disgusted by the crimes committed in the Balkan Wars. Then came the year 1914. From this we should be able to learn that as much as it is difficult to reach prosperity, stability, solidarity, empathy and freedom, these values are easily forfeited. Anyone can find himself in a situation where he has to leave and cannot return anymore.
By expecting that it can happen at any time.
To any country that would take me.
Ever since I turned to my inner refuge, my only homeland has been the one within me. This is where I am able to set its boundaries, to decide how strong it is going to be at a certain point in time and I can make sure that it will not leave me like the previous one.
The Serbian historian Dubravka Stojanovic was born in 1963. She teaches at the University of Belgrade. Her main topics of research are democracy and democratic movements in the 19th and 20th century as well as the role of women in Serbia. She is a consultant to the UN on the topic of misuse of history in education. For her works she has received numerous prizes, e.g. the Peace Prize of the Belgrade Center for Peace and Democracy (2011) the French Order Pour le Merite.


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Damar Hamlin Attends First Buffalo Bills Game Since Cardiac Arrest
Sarah Curran ETCanada.com
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Damar Hamlin is back in the stadium. The Buffalo Bills safety came out to watch his team play for the first time since being rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest on the field during a game three weeks ago.
Hamlin was in attendance at Highmark Stadium on Sunday, where he watched the Bills face off against the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC divisional round playoff game.
Ahead of the game, the Bills celebrated Hamlin's return on social media, sharing a video of the 24-year-old NFL pro arriving at the locker room.
"Welcome home, @HamlinIsland❤💙" the team captioned the clip.
Welcome home, @HamlinIsland. ❤💙#CINvsBUF | #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/OG88gibcVv
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) January 22, 2023
Hamlin arrived via golf cart and was joined by his mother, Nina and his 7-year-old brother, Damir.
The team also shared a clip of Hamlin cheering on his teammates as they took on the Bengals in the snow.
"We're so glad you're here, @HamlinIsland. 🫶," the post read, showing Hamil on his feet applauding for his team.
We're so glad you're here, @HamlinIsland. 🫶#LoveForDamar | #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/rxR7PX7I00
Hamlin was photographed with teammates on Jan. 14, when he paid a visit to the team's training facility in Orchard Park, New York.
The visit came just three days after he was discharged from Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute.
The NFL player was released from the University of Cincinnati Health Medical Center earlier this month, following a life-threatening tackle in a game against the Bengals on Jan. 2.
During the first quarter of the pivotal NFL matchup, Hamlin tackled wide receiver Tee Higgins, and both men appeared to be uninjured following the tackle. However, shortly thereafter, Hamlin appeared to stumble and collapse on the field. He was swiftly attended to by medical personnel, who reportedly gave the athlete CPR on the field. He was also placed on a stretcher, given oxygen and taken to the hospital via ambulance. It was later revealed that Hamlin went into cardiac arrest. The game was initially postponed and later canceled.
Per Hamlin's uncle, Dorrian Glenn, the defensive back had to be resuscitated twice and was been on a ventilator to help with his breathing after sustaining damage to his lungs following the game tackle.
After waking up, one of the first questions Hamlin asked was if the Bills won the game. Not only did the Bills pay tribute to Hamlin in their first game on the field since the scary tackle, but the team also honored the medical staff that helped save the second-year pro's life.
In an update to AP, Hamlin's rep Jordon Rooney shared that, "Damar still requires oxygen and is having his heart monitored regularly to ensure there are no setbacks or after effects," Rooney said. "Though he is able to visit the team's facility, Damar is not in position to travel often, and requires additional rest to help his body heal."
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This is why Motshekga will absolutely not scrap the school year
The department of basic education responds to Jonathan Jansen's open letter to the minister
15 July 2020 - 09:13 By ELIJAH MHLANGA
Grade 12 pupils at Phulong Secondary School in KwaThema with basic education minister Angie Motshekga.
Image: Thulani Mbele
In his open letter to minister of basic education Angie Motshekga, Prof Jonathan Jansen argues passionately for the school year to be abandoned.
He appears first to strike an encouraging tone with the minister before he admonishes her with: "Unfortunately, minister, you cannot dictate academic terms to a novel coronavirus."
The choice of words is not lost on the reader; the eminent professor employs his skilful language punch to characterise the minister as a dictator in the eyes of those whose sympathies lie with the professor's argument. These sympathies are bought by fearmongering tactics that he so cunningly deploys. To drive his point into the trembling hearts of a public seized with uncertainty over a virus that morphs daily and evades medical science, he throws in a salvo: "Teachers have died, principals have been on ventilators. Children have been infected. Non-teaching staff have become seriously ill."
These are words employed by a crafty wordsmith to drive home a point that seeks to turn public sentiment against a hard-working minister committed to finding effective and all-encompassing solutions to not only salvage the academic year (which is not a crime, by the way) but to also keep access open for the poorest of the poor in far-flung communities of the republic who need an open classroom if they are to take aim at a possible future free of ignorance and poverty.
We are not convinced of the argument to roll up and close the school year. We are neither certain that this would be a desirable and responsible option for the many marginalised children, who rely on our schools. We will never tire from explaining that our approach to school reopening is a result of a carefully considered process listening to many different views from our stakeholders and respectfully paying attention to the fears and anxieties of parents and pupils themselves.
We have also listened to science and medical experts who pay careful attention to the evolution of Covid-19 and its implications for education policy and practice. At the same time an impression must not be created that we are trying to save the academic year at the expense of lives. The SA government is allowing various sectors to gradually resume activities to maintain the balance between saving lives and livelihood. Needless to say, the provision of basic education is part of livelihood.
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Just swallow your pride and do it, minister Motshekga. If you don't, there'll be a far worse blot on your record.
Now that we have clarified this point, it is time to refer Prof Jansen respectfully to his colleague at the same university, Martin Gustafsson – an associate professor in the economics department of Stellenbosch University, and senior researcher at RESEP, specialising in education policy and comparative education – and listen carefully to some of the findings the professor has shared in trying to consider implications of the department's school reopening programme in the context of available data on Covid-19 and children of school-going age.
It is important that parents and the public differentiate between schools reopening from all the other important strategies used to reduce transmission and which are still in place.
We also would encourage Prof Jansen to listen to the findings of Unesco, on the negative impact an extended school lockdown potentially has on the prospects of pupils in poor communities. In their recent report, "Adverse Consequences of School Closures", Unesco explains that school closures carry high social and economic costs for people across communities.
Their impact, however, is particularly severe for the most vulnerable and marginalised boys and girls and their families. The resulting disruptions exacerbate existing disparities within the education system and in other aspects of their lives.
We have invested time in explaining that back to school doesn't mean back to normal. The reopening of schools does not mean a return to education as it was before. Other measures may also be put in place, like staggering lunch breaks, limiting face-to-face contact between staff and parents, and regular hand-washing breaks.
Kids with a cold or other symptoms must stay home. And older teachers or those with underlying health conditions (comorbidities) that put them at greater risk of complications if infected with Covid-19, will have altered responsibilities.
It is important that parents and the public differentiate between schools reopening from all the other important strategies used to reduce transmission and which are still in place. These include social distancing, travel restrictions, case isolation and quarantine, and banning of large gatherings.
Returning to some of Prof Jansen's thoughts, it is surprising that the open letter and many other articles he has penned in recent times criticising the department's effort to reopen schools suggest we must accept that affluent schools on their own will save the academic year and children of the working class and the poor should accept that their academic year is over. It would also seem clear that the government is counselled in these letters and articles to fold their arms and to roll over to the magical 2021 to only return to its mandate then.
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The minister has said repeatedly that the main reason for reopening was to make sure that poor children who don't have resources such as information and communication technologies should benefit in school, which is where they are better serviced. It is particularly the poor who are at risk if schools don't open so those are the principles that have been guiding us.
We recognise that we must find workable solutions that will allow us to continue with educating our children in the midst of an unfolding crisis; a new reality even through 2021.
We have not followed the example of Kenya – an example the professor refers to as "courageous" in a hidden attempt to impugn the efforts of minister Motshekga.
We have instead crafted our path informed first by our conditions on the ground, guided by our medical scientists who have encouraged the country to brace itself to co-exist with Covid-19 for the foreseeable future.
Those who think that 2021 will bring much-needed relief are relying unfortunately on data we have not seen.
Dr Nic Spaull and Prof Gustafsson, among others, spend time studying the potential impact of the pandemic on our school system, and they have reached different conclusions to those espoused by Prof Jansen, who by the way, we are not aware of any work produced by him on the impact of Covid-19 on schooling, except for his tabloid snippets.
The obligations of White Paper 1 on education create an obligation on the state to acknowledge and respect education. This translates also into an obligation on the state to acknowledge and respect the constitutional provision of equality.
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It is as a result of these constitutional obligations that the department of basic education pursues the ideal of equal access to basic education as an inalienable right not only to those who can access online learning platforms with all the gadgetry required because of their access to resources and associated luxuries, but also those who continue to battle on the frontiers of poverty and marginalisation.
Witness to this is borne by the efforts we have made to keep education provision ongoing; we have, through our partnerships with the department of communications and digital technologies, identified free online sites where pupils can access learning materials; we have partnered with the SABC to stream lessons and revision content; and we have provided the home education option to parents who wish not to return their children to school.
We are resolute in our endeavour to return schools to functioning capacity in the current academic year and mitigate the negative impacts Covid-19 poses to the learning development of our children.
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Use the Add Registers page to add definitions of registers. If Modsak is "running" (i.e. the Run button is depressed), you will have to click the Run button before you can add register definitions.
Quantity. How many registers to add. The Address will be incremented for each register added. The other fields will have the same values in each register.
Address. The address of the first register. This is a "model address", and may be different from the address used in messages, depending on how the address mapping is configured (see Address mapping).
Name. An optional name for the register. Modsak displays the name, but does not use it in any other way. It is purely for your benefit, to remind you of what the register is used for.
Unit. An optional unit for the register. Modsak displays the unit, but does not use it in any other way. It is purely for your benefit, to remind you of what unit is used for the register value.
Type. The type (signed integer, unsigned integer, or floating-point) and size (1, 8, 16, 32 or 64 bit) of the value to be stored in the register. You would normally use Int 16 or Uint 16 for holding registers and input registers, and Discrete (i.e. 1-bit integer) for coils and discrete inputs - the other sizes are non-standard.
Radix. The radix to be used to display the register value. The radix only affects the display of unsigned integer values: floating-point and signed integer values are always displayed in decimal.
Minimum and Maximum. These allow you to specify limits for the register value. If the register value is less than the specified minimum or greater than the specified maximum, the value is displayed with a red background.
Value. The initial value to be stored in the register.
Write. In slave mode, Modsak will only allow a master to write to this register if this option is selected (reads are always allowed). When polling, Modsak will write this register to the slave if this option is selected, otherwise it will read this register from the slave (see Polling).
When you have entered/selected values for the above fields, click the Add button to add the register definition(s). You may then edit the values and click the Add button again to add further register definitions. If you click the Reset button, all the values will be reset to their defaults.