Jen Psaki stands by San Diego schools' decision to provide in-person teaching for migrants

Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki has stood by the decision by San Diego school officials to provide in-person teaching to migrant teenagers before children return to the classroom.

The girls, whose ages range from 13 to 17, are being sheltered at the San Diego Convention Center, which has been repurposed as a temporary overflow facility, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

San Diego teachers will provide the girls with instruction in English as well as the arts, according to KPBS-TV.The migrants are expected to remain in the convention center until July, by which time the federal government is expected to have placed them with a family while their asylum cases are adjudicated in immigration courts.

Plans to provide in-person instruction to migrant children angered parents of San Diego school children who have been forced to remain home during the COVID-19 pandemic while classes are taught virtually.

'We have 130,000 kids who haven't been allowed in a classroom for over a year in the San Diego United School District,' San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond told Fox News.'It's great that there's in-person learning for those unaccompanied minors from Central America, but I wish every child in San Diego Country was allowed the same opportunity for in-person teaching.

One parent, Emily Diaz, told Fox News: 'The system is broken when San Diego teachers are teaching migrant children in person, but the 100k students of taxpaying families at San Diego Unified School District are stuck learning in Zoom school.

A spokesperson for the county Office of Education told Fox News: 'The San Diego County Office of Education is providing the educational program for the unaccompanied migrant children who will be staying at the San Diego Convention Center through July.'All children in California, regardless of immigration status, have a constitutional right to education.
 

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