To adapt to online learning, Makayla Cooper sets up her own learning space. It provides familiarity of being at school and allows her to focus while doing her classes.
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FROM GEORGIA TO OHIO: THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN EDUCATION DURING COVID
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tudents and staff struggle to keep up with the COVID pandemic. Teachers have been left to decide what education looks like on their own. Students feel stressed not knowing how the future is going to turn out. Although it can feel like the students at North Royalton High School are experiencing these emotions on their own, kids all over the United States share similar feelings about this change of learning. One student in Georgia talked about how she was handling COVID while managing school, just like the students in
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North Royalton. “I enjoy the sense of normalcy that comes with being at school in person,” Mary Kathryn said about her school in Georgia. Schools have tried to maintain the feeling of normalcy, but still uphold the safety requirements for COVID. “All desks are separated in classrooms, and at lunch we’re only allowed five people to a table,” Mary Kathryn said. “We also have to wait in the hallways before classes so the desks and classrooms can be sanitized.”
