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A student walks through the halls of Cardozo High School on March 12, 2020. Cardozo had problems like asbestos and lead pipes before being renovated in 2011. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
Christopher Moses encountered dire conditions at Washington, D.C.’s Calvin Coolidge High School when he entered as a freshman in 2016.
Damaged floors, 70-year-old boilers, no central air conditioning, dangerously obsolete wiring, and a leaky, crumbling roof.
“Everything was just torn down,” Moses recalled. “We weren’t allowed to go on the fourth floor. And then the lockers, we couldn’t use them because they were messed up, destroyed. It was rats and all that, so it was really bad. Cockroaches. It was bad.”
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Desks are spaced apart in Samantha Rutherford s classroom. (Courtesy of Samantha Rutherford)
Jerry Logan, 68, can’t afford not to be serious about COVID-19 safety.
He’s a single father of two school-aged children and takes care of his 93-year-old mother at their North Philadelphia home.
“We can’t afford for her to get sick,” he said.
Weighing the risks, though, he couldn’t justify keeping his children in full-time virtual school.
“They’ve got to make up some of this time. They’ve been out of school almost a whole year.”
So although Logan has lost friends and distant family members to the virus, he opted for his kids to return to in-person school at Kenderton Elementary for two days a week starting today.
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