Khalil Jones spent the semester student teaching at East High School in Kansas City, Missouri. His goal during a school year of uncertainty? Teach them to be better humans.
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BASEHOR, Kan. â Going to school looked different in Kansas City and across the country during the past 15 months amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stay-at-home orders last spring shuttered school buildings and pushed teachers, staff and students into a virtual environment.
Masks, social distancing and frequent hand-washing became part of the curriculum to help slow the virusâ spread for the districts that did return in-person late last fall.
Other districts,
As the pandemic stretched on, concern grew that many students, especially those utilizing virtual instruction, were falling behind.
It also prompted at least one area school district, Basehor-Linwood USD 458, to offer summer school for the first time.
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