Stores are out of laptops. Special ed aides haven’t checked in. Kids can’t focus because of anxiety. Running a home classroom is tough.
CINCINNATI – Savannah Scott had her sights on prom and graduation since the ninth grade.brought her Cincinnati school's planning to a halt.
Savannah Scott, 18, stands in the front of her home in Westwood on Thursday, April 2, 2020. She is a senior at Dater High School and a class officer.For Scott, the day starts around 10 a.m. when she wakes to check her assignments on Schoology, an online learning platform. Savannah Scott, 18, stands in front of her home in Westwood on Thursday, April 2, 2020. She is a senior at Dater High School and a class officer.After checking on assignments and her AP psychology calendar, Scott normally chills, watching TV and YouTube videos until the evening, when she feels the most productive.As someone with access to technology and the internet, she sees this as an experience that will prepare her for the freedom from oversight that college brings.
At one point during Thursday’s lesson, Haddasha’s voice rose as she pleaded with Curtin to skip a section on gladiators’ enslavement. "It's really hard to fit it into the day when he's trying to work and I'm trying to work," Emily Minelli said. "We don't want to ignore the kids when we're trying to do that, but we also need to focus on our work."Amid coronavirus, students flock to Kahoot! and Duolingo for language lessons
Tommy Minelli, 6, peers over the edge of a book during a video conference call, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood. About a dozen of his mother's colleagues get together and rotate teaching their kids a lesson from a range of subjects."Nico, they can't see the book, son," Minelli said as she broke out of her reading tone. "Sit right there.
As a non-native English speaker, he faces barriers trying to keep up with daily homework assignments, such as not having someone in his household who can guide him with demanding work or who can help him problem-solve when he experiences issues online. Tene Ba, 13, a seventh-grade student at Winton Woods Middle School, reviews his English lessons, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Forest Park, Ohio. Tene was...
Sinaca Wagoner, Sr., helps his son Sinaca Wagoner, Jr., 7, with his school work in their apartment in Lower Price Hill on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Sinaca Jr. is in the second grade at Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy.“What does the frog eat?” asked Renee Oliver, whose second grade son stood next to her. “Does it eat flowers? Flies?”The exchange marked the start of another reading lesson, which was sent home by Sinaca’s charter school, Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy in the West End.
While other districts provided Chromebook laptops to all families, Sinaca has relied on his mother’s phone for online reading lessons. Sometimes while reading, he’s interrupted by calls tied to Oliver’s work cleaning apartments. The high school senior had agreed to help her fifth grade cousin with math. Simpson, 18, glanced at photos of worksheets on her phone while seated at the family's dining room table, marking points on the graph and plotting their positions. The table serves as a makeshift classroom for Simpson and her younger siblings, Destiny Taylor, 12, and R Francis Akorli, 3. R’s counting and coloring worksheets rested on the table near Simpson’s unfinished English homework.
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