4:06 pm UTC Dec. 28, 2020
Ruby Rodriguez, a ninth-grade student at St. Anthony High School in Milwaukee who attends school 100% virtually, takes part in an English class from the dining room of her home on Nov. 11.Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MILWAUKEE
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Ruby Rodriguez remembers the days when English class meant walking to her desk, talking to friends and checking the board.
Now class begins when her classmates names appear online. She sits alone at the dining room table, barefoot and petting the family dog. It s her freshman year at St. Anthony High School, a private Catholic school in Milwaukee. She doesn t know what her classmates look like, because nobody ever turns on their cameras.
6:56 pm UTC Dec. 17, 2020
MILWAUKEE
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Ruby Rodriguez remembers the days when English class meant walking to her desk, talking to friends and checking the board.
Now class begins when her classmates names appear online. She sits alone at the dining room table, barefoot and petting the family dog. It s her freshman year at St. Anthony High School, a private Catholic school in Milwaukee. She doesn t know what her classmates look like, because nobody ever turns on their cameras.
After schools in Milwaukee went remote last March, Ruby and her friends in eighth grade at St. Anthony s middle school missed their graduation ceremonies and parties. Her close friends attended different high schools, mostly other private schools that offered in-person instruction. St. Anthony, like many schools in urban areas, including Milwaukee Public Schools, started the fall semester online amid the coronavirus pandemic.