A day in the life: NBCNews followed a teacher, a football coach and a student trying to navigate the changing face of education in Texas.
Katelyn Hamilton, 25, is certified in English as a second language and teaches third grade at Bell’s Hill Elementary School,is Hispanic. She lives in Waco with her boyfriend and their dog, a pit-lab mix. School started Tuesday; she has 13 kids in-person and nine remote for now.
Her job requires double the effort now as she teaches in-person and virtually, and technological malfunctions just complicate matters. On Thursday, Zoom had glitches because so many people joined the network all at once. The internet slowed, her video lagged and she couldn’t see her students. Even if the district does pass out free meals, daily breakfasts and lunches can’t happen in the same way without students in the building. Bus transportation doesn’t run at the right times anymore, even though many of the teens still rely on it. One of his athletes walks two miles each way just to get to practice.
Katelyn sits at her desk, preparing for math at the start of the day. “Hopefully, Zoom will work this morning,” she says. “Monday, when they put that helmet on, football’s officially started,” Bobby says. “Football is real when a helmet goes on your head.” “Now, I think we’re kinda getting more into the groove of things, so hopefully that should be, like, most of the hiccups,” Katelyn says.
Bobby has moved into his cubby office, which was probably a storage room in another life, he says. “Fancy offices, you tend not to work in ’em, because you don’t want to mess them up,” he says. “Just a place to put a computer, that’s all I need.”The coaches got lunch to go and ate as a staff in their office. It was Bobby’s first hamburger since mid-June; he’s been on a health kick while some of his players gain the so-called “Covid 15.
Bobby remembers the moment when a Southwest jet finally flew over the school again. “Kids stopped for about a half-second and started clapping,” he says. “It brought back a sense of normalcy.”
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