Jersey City school reopening, Part 2: The few McNair seniors in classrooms ask ‘where is everyone else?’
Updated May 10, 2021;
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Raheeq Ibrahim said she felt like a freshman all over again Monday, trying to find her classes with just weeks left in senior year at McNair Academic High School.
The 18-year-old said returning in person felt almost unnatural after 14 months of remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. Add into the mix teachers responding simultaneously to students online and in the classroom, and it made for a strange, unsettling day.
“You don’t get that same feeling in class,” Ibrahim said of her classmates who remained in virtual learning. “You can’t turn to anybody and start laughing at a joke or anything. It’s just you and the teacher, you can’t even do anything besides work.”