Photo By Kasey Bubnash
SMALL-SCALE SCHOOL A SLO High School student works on class assignments including raising chicks for an agriculture class in Ingrid Unemar Oest s pandemic learning pod.
A few months into the second semester of the 2021 school year,
San Luis Obispo High School student
Alex Rayas was, like so many students, completely floundering. He was quite literally failing all of his classes.
Rayas had never struggled with school much before the COVID-19 pandemic, but virtual learning just didn t click for him. As a freshman, he d never even set foot on SLO High School s campus when classes started online in the fall. He didn t know many of his classmates and had never actually met any of his teachers.