Photo Story: Education During a Pandemic
An empty classroom in Meadowridge Elementary School has been sitting empty for 8 months. The kids and teachers that usually inhabit this room in December are at home, learning and teaching over the internet, on an app called Zoom. Like most classes in Oregon, there are no in-person lessons due to a virus named Covid-19. In some classrooms, however, there are some teachers set up. They have problems in their home with having a quiet place to teach their lessons, or they have unreliable internet. This is Mandy Ipson, a first grade teacher at Meadowridge Elementary School. She has her own little classroom set up in her home, turning the spare room into a place to keep her lessons and conduct her zoom classes with her students. This is her 6th year teaching, and the main difference she finds with this year compared to the past, besides the obvious, is that it is harder for her to help her students. She explains that when they are in person, she can see their work and their actions, w...