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Educators have truly shown themselves as heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, adapting to virtual learning, juggling the education and care of their own children, and staying on top of health restrictions and personal protective equipment requirements to keep themselves and their students safe. Now it seems like teachers are taking it one step further once again, signing on well after 3 p.m. to help their students.
I actually first heard about this trend from my sister, Heather Melms, a speech therapist at a fully remote elementary school in New Jersey. With both parents working full-time and a caretaker unable to help, one of her pre-K students couldn t participate in his online speech therapy during normal school hours. That s why my sister scheduled a weekly evening session with her student after his parents were done with work.