It s going to get better, Biden, wife of President Joe Biden, told Bukoski. It is, Bukoski responded. I can already feel it.
The exchange captured much of what Biden and Cardona came to Erie County to discuss: How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed education and forced teachers, students, parents and others to adapt to a new landscape of learning and how there is, as Biden put it, light at the end of the tunnel as the pandemic continues.
Biden, Cardona and National Education Association President Becky Pringle met with parents and teachers in the school library to hear how the Fort LeBoeuf School District community has successfully returned to the classroom.
In a deeply divided country, there’s one thing most of us can all agree on: 2020 was among the worst years ever. But there’s one group of “family member” for which 2020 was one of the greatest years of their lives pets.
“The animals are thriving in 2020,” said Kimberly Morrow of Erie, who adopted Kylo from Because You Care in May.
Morrow, who has a senior in high school, a junior in college and student in graduate school, was close to an empty nest when the whole flock came back home to roost in March.
“When the governor gave the stay-at-home orders, we had a conversation around the dinner table about how we were all going to be together for the foreseeable future, and that we’d have to make the best of it,” Morrow said.