California high schoolers are saying no thanks to reopened campuses and are staying home
Paloma Esquivel and Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2021
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1of3Panorama High School and Magnets drama teacher Patricia Francisco teaches on Zoom in her classroom where she has set-up stage lighting within the black-box theater in Panorama High School on Tuesday, May 6, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. Two stage lights brighten her face as she speaks to her camera with students logging in from home, with others scattered in classrooms around the campus.Al Seib/TNSShow MoreShow Less
2of3Ninth grader Carlos “Jairo” Zamora, 16, logs in via Zoom to classes in another part of the building as he sits in the Panorama High School classroom of drama teacher Patricia Francisco.Al Seib/TNSShow MoreShow Less
In San Francisco and Los Angeles, tens of thousands of middle- and high-school students have returned to classrooms in which they sit at desks with their laptops and learn remotely the latest twist in the slow reopening of public schools in the nation’s most populous state.
Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place won t be quite the same.
You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations.
But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman wasn t. 4:33
Support for LAist comes from This make me sad, Forman said as he toured the Venice classroom where his son once attended kindergarten. This was a vibrant room full of life, color, activity.
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The majority of Los Angeles Unified School District students will still be learning from home when classrooms begin to reopen this week but if your kids are among those headed back to campus, chances are they’ll spend more hours in day care than with their teacher.
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For more than 70% of returning elementary schoolers, those hours will probably stretch from the end of in-person instruction at 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., though for some it may be from 8 a.m. until after lunch. And for 64% of middle schoolers, it could be several full days a week, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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