Retired US teachers keep busy tutoring students during the Covid-19 pandemic


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Sinclair, 84, is among hundreds of retired teachers who are volunteering to help students whose schools have been shut because of the pandemic. Photos: TNS

Before the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic confined Barbara Sinclair to her Naperville, Illinois condo in the United States, the former public school teacher put her experience to use tutoring students in a GED class at a local college.

When it became clear that activity would have to go on hiatus, the 84-year-old wondered how she would spend all her newfound free time.

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