Location: Gautier, Mississippi
The Pascagoula-Gautier School District in Mississippi shut down in-person classes in March 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and make a transition to virtual schooling for an unknown period of time.
As told to Lisa Esposito as part of U.S. News & World Report’s “One Pandemic Question” series. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Q: How did COVID-19 turn schools upside down for your students?
It was around the beginning of the pandemic. The kids in band were pumped about their spring concert and evaluation coming up in a couple weeks. It’s a big deal where they prepare and practice for months to give the best possible performance.
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The Shape of Water, Channel 4, 9.30pm Drawing on influences as varied as Mike Leigh’s film Happy-Go-Lucky and legendary 1950s monster flick The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Mexican horror maestro Guillermo del Torro spins this extraordinary feat of imagination and image-making which wowed the 2018 Oscars with 13 nominations and four wins including Best Picture and Best Director. It was in Happy-Go-Lucky that del Torro saw and was impressed by British actress Sally Hawkins and it was with her in mind that he wrote the character of his heroine – Elisa Esposito, a mute cleaner at a secret government laboratory to which a strange amphibian creature has been sequestered after its capture in a South American river. And here’s where The Creature From The Black Lagoon comes in, a childhood obsession of del Torro’s and a film he was planning to remake at one time.