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WHITE PLAINS LAW JOURNAL Special to The CitizeNetReporter. August 11, 2019:
WPCNR bas learned the French American School of New York has been granted an extension by the Appellate Court, 2nd Circuit, to perfect the FASNY brief contesting the Gedney Association appeal of the Judge Lefowitz decision dismissing the Gedney Article 78 action against the French American School of New York plan to build a school campus on the former Ridgeway Country Club pictured above) .
The French American School of New York argues that the Gedney attorneys should reproduce all the DEISs and FEIS documents) – (Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements), which Gedney attorneys feel is unnecessary exhorbitant expense and a repetition of documents already in the court records of the case. .
The Gedney legal team predicts “looks like motion practice will ensue. this will be at least 2 years before the appeal is heard. “
The dispute is in its 8th year.
WPCNR WATCH ON THE RHINE. From the Service Employees International Union 32BJ:
The following statement may be attributed to Lenore Friedlaender, Assistant to the President of 32BJ SEIU and the union’s leader in the Hudson Valley:
“As one of the nation’s largest unions with majority immigrant membership, we thoroughly condemn he Trump administration’s massive workplace raids in Mississippi yesterday. By arresting almost 700 men and women at their jobs, the administration has ripped apart families, communities and local economies, traumatizing thousands upon thousands of native and foreign-born residents alike, while further terrorizing immigrants of all statuses across the country.
For over a dozen years, administrations both Republican and Democratic have refrained from these massive militarized assaults on workplaces, knowing that the damage they wreak to residents of American soil is simply indefensible.
All workers — black, brown, white — deserve to be treated with dignity in the workplace, and the well-being of their children and communities should always be a top priority for government. The Trump administration, however, counts working people’s pain as their political gain.
The timing of the raids also adds reprehensible insults to this grievous injury, coming months after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission won a lawsuit in support of abused Latinx workers, and on the very day that President Trump traveled to El Paso in the wake of a white supremacist terror attack that was apparently emboldened by Trump’s hateful words and deeds. We offer our deepest condolences to all those affected by these raids, and our solidarity to all those committed to defeating this rogue and racist administration through action in the courts, votes at the polls, and voices in the streets.”
La siguiente declaración se puede atribuir a Lenore Friedlaender, asistente al presidente de la 32BJ SEIU y líder de la union en el valle del Hudson.
“Como uno de los sindicatos más grandes de la nación con membresía mayoritaria de inmigrantes, condenamos a fondo las redadas masivas de la administración Trump en Mississippi ayer. Al arrestar a casi 700 hombres y mujeres en sus trabajos, la administración ha destrozado familias, comunidades y economías locales, traumatizando a miles y miles de residentes nativos y nacidos en el extranjero por igual, a la vez que aterroriza aún más a los inmigrantes de cualquier estatus por todo el país. Durante más de una docena de años, las administraciones republicanas y demócratas se han abstenido de estos asaltos militarizados masivos en los lugares de trabajo, sabiendo que el daño que causan a los residentes de suelo estadounidense es simplemente indefendible. Todos los trabajadores, negros, marrones, blancos, merecen ser tratados con dignidad en el lugar de trabajo, y el bienestar de sus hijos y comunidades siempre debe ser una prioridad para el gobierno. Sin embargo, la administración Trump considera el dolor de la gente trabajadora como su ganancia política. El momento de las redadas también agrega insultos reprobables a esta grave lesión, meses después de que la Comisión de Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo ganó una demanda en apoyo de los trabajadores Latinx maltratados, y el mismo día en que el presidente Trump viajó a El Paso tras un ataque terrorista supremacista que aparentemente fue envalentonado por las odiosas palabras y acciones de Trump. Ofrecemos nuestras más sinceras condolencias a todos los afectados por estas redadas, y nuestra solidaridad a todos los que se comprometieron a derrotar a esta administración corrupta y racista a través de la acción en los tribunales, los votos en las urnas y las voces en las calles.”
WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. By Dr. Lata McGinn, Cognitive Behavioral Associates, White Plains, N.Y. Professor Yeshiva University. August 7, 2019:
Editor’s Note: The dog days of August are here. School begins in 4 weeks. Dr. Lata McGinn, international expert in behavioral issues and frequent guest to discuss children’s issues on White Plains Television “People to Be Heard” has put together approaches for parents and students to ease both the fears of going back to school and think positively about the new school year to smooth the transition.
Returning to school in the fall can bring excitement as well as stress and anxiety for many children. There are several things parents can do to help their children ease back into the new school year and deal with the anxiety that often accompanies that first day and even those first few weeks.
1) Help your child know that feeling anxious about going back to school is normal and don’t minimize how they feel. Don’t say, “don’t worry, it will be fine.” Instead say, “it is normal to feel some anxiety about going back to school. Everyone feels it to some extent. Anxiety is a protective emotion and it will help you prepare and get ready for school, and it will pass when you adjust to being back at school.”
2) Help them understand what the purpose of anxiety is and to listen to it rather than push the anxiety away. Say “anxiety is like an unpleasant but helpful alarm, so the alarm will keep on ringing and get louder until you figure out what it is alarming you to do and then you do it.”
3) Help them figure out what is making them concerned or anxious, so they can talk to themselves in a way that will help them to cope with it. Ask them to pay attention to what is going through their minds when they get anxious and come up with helpful things to say to themselves. If the anxiety is saying, “I am starting high school and I will not do well and won’t get into a good college,” help them to say something like, “I am understandably anxious about starting high school and am worried that I won’t do well but that doesn’t mean I actually won’t do well. I just need to make sure I prepare in advance, organize my work, make sure I have enough time to study, take away all distractions when I study, and get support when I need it.”
4) Help them gradually approach all the things that are making them anxious rather than avoiding what is making them anxious about school. If seeing their friends is making them anxious, and they are avoiding seeing them or thinking about meeting them at school, help them to create a fear ladder and slowly climb it. Say, “how about you call Matt to see if he can meet up before school, and then after that, you could meet again and include Jack and Alex too?”
5) Do something academic to prepare because the brain drain is real over the summer. If they are weak on a subject, get a tutor for a few weeks or use online forums like the Khan Academy or Crash course (a YouTube channel led by “Fault in our Stars” author John Green and his brother Hank Green) to help them prepare. It will help them get a refresher and build their confidence.
6) Help them to focus on positive things about going back to school as well. Ask them if they are looking forward to any aspect of going back to school. If seeing their friends is something they feel good about, say things like, “it will be nice to catch up with Jane. You have so much to tell her.” Of course, if seeing their classmates is anxiety provoking, pick another topic.A