Los Angeles Schools Remain Closed and Families Wonder: How Much Longer?
Even amid signs of a deal with the teachers’ union, the district is still probably a month or more from resuming in-person learning.
Kahllid Al-Alim talks to his daughter Shamael, a high school senior, about her homework.Credit.Mark Abramson for The New York Times
Published March 8, 2021Updated March 12, 2021
It has been almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic virtually emptied public schools in Los Angeles and sent Shamael Al-Alim home to take classes from her bedroom.
She does not miss rising at 6 a.m. to catch a bus and a train to her high school. But there is so much that, at 17, she does miss: The prospect of an in-person prom and graduation. The history teacher who ran the social justice club. Pickup basketball in the gym after school and the coach “who made everybody feel safe there.” A real senior year.