Brittany Kempema
"My favorites, you know 15 minutes of nothing and I can't do anything; I can't work, text, I can't email, I can't... my focus is just sitting there with her, and those are some of... its probably sometimes the best part of my day. Because I don't worry about a million other things and that's really the only time I feel like I have an excuse to not be doing a million other things so."
"if i'm understanding your question like are you asking if students like did better once they came back to class? Um not, not for a while and I hear a lot of people say like you know these students are failing because they're online, but what my students were failing and they are right there in the classroom and, I think a long time, it was the whole idea like there's any moment that we can go into lockdown like we can all like the school will be closed, and we have to go into quarantine like so like. Through until December everybody have like one foot out the door, we thought that at any moment we're gonna hit the number of cases and schools were gonna close. And, and I think, because people were so lenient with online the year before the students still thought they could get away with whatever not turning in homework, you know not doing the reading, and so I had more students fail, like the first term than I've ever had. So yeah it was astounding how many students I had fail."
Eva Peterson
"Not seeing my students faces... it was weird talking to a screen and not knowing what was happening on the other side."
"You're so isolated, and I could tell that my children were suffering mentally and emotionally. They miss their friends, they miss their teachers, and we were so isolated and when we were in the house doing school all day that it was hard."
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