âIâm Overwhelmed by How Much Is Out of My Controlâ
A teacher featured in a special Times audio series on Odessa High School shares her stresses during the pandemic.
March 5, 2021
For six months, The New York Timesâs audio team has documented the return of students to classes at a Texas high school. Today, in a special edition of the Education Briefing, hear from one of the teachers the team followed.
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Kason Kash Bugarin, 3, outside his familyâs home, near a yard storing oil-drilling rigs in West Odessa, Texas, once home to one of the most productive oil fields in the world.
Odessa
A struggling school system. An oil bust. A marching band determined to keep playing through a pandemic. This is the story of one Texas high school in crisis and trying to reopen its doors.
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Audio edited by Liz O. Baylen and Lisa Tobin
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated March 16, 2021
Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process.
For the past six months, The New York Times has documented students’ return to class at Odessa High School from afar through Google hangouts, audio diaries, phone calls and FaceTime tours. And as the country continues to debate how best to reopen schools, Odessa is the story of what happened in a school district that was among those that went first.
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