Covid-19: Virus forced US schools online, but many students didn’t follow

By Julie Watson and Carolyn Thompson

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Monday, 20 Apr 2020
10:00 AM MYT

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Sunnyside Elementary School fourth-grader Miriam Amacker does school work in her room at her family's home in San Francisco. Teachers across the country report their attempts at distance learning induced by the pandemic are failing to reach large numbers of students. — AP

SAN DIEGO: During the first week that her San Diego public school was shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus, not one of Elise Samaniego's students logged on to her virtual classroom.

Three weeks in, the teacher still hadn’t connected online with roughly two-thirds of the students in her third- and fourth-grade combo class at Paradise Hills Elementary. She fears the pandemic will exact a devastating toll on education in the United States, especially at low-income schools like hers.

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Sunnyside Elementary School fourth-grader Miriam Amacker does school work in her room at her family's home in San Francisco. Teachers across the country report their attempts at distance learning induced by the pandemic are failing to reach large numbers of students. — AP

Anna Louisa, 18, receives her school laptop for home study at the Lower East Side Preparatory School on Thursday, March 19, 2020, in New York, as coronavirus restrictions shuttered classrooms throughout the city. Cuomo tightened work-from-home rules as confirmed cases continued to climb in New York, an expected jump as testing becomes more widespread. — AP

Anna Louisa, 18, left, receives her school laptop for home study at the Lower East Side Preparatory School, on March 19, 2020, in New York, as coronavirus restrictions shuttered classrooms throughout the city. Cuomo tightened work-from-home rules as confirmed cases continued to climb in New York, an expected jump as testing becomes more widespread. — AP

Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy kindergarten teacher Marisa Martinez holds her daughter Estrella, one, while her other daughter, Xavia, 11, records her instructing a class to be posted online from their home on Kings Mountain in San Mateo County, California. — AP

Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy kindergarten teacher Marisa Martinez talks on the phone while working on her computer at her home on Kings Mountain in San Mateo County, California. Teachers across the country report their attempts at distance learning induced by the pandemic are failing to reach large numbers of students. Hundreds of thousands of students are still without computers or home Internet access. — AP

Kelly Dighero, a third grade teacher at Phoebe Hearst Elementary School, gives a thumbs-up during her first online meeting with students and parents on the front lawn of her home in Sacramento, California. Monday was the first day of the Sacramento Unified School District's ‘Distance Learning’ programme. — AP

Lila Nelson watches as her son, Rise University Preparatory sixth-grader Jayden Amacker, watches an online class in his room at their home in San Francisco. Teachers across the country report their attempts at distance learning induced by the pandemic are failing to reach large numbers of students. Hundreds of thousands of students are still without computers or home Internet access. — AP

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Covid-19: Virus forced US schools online, but many students didn’t follow