When Kids Lose Their School To FIre

[tvguy]

While getting kids back in school is important, the immediate need is a place to live. How many of the students who attended impacted schools are even going to be living close enough to their old schools to attend the assigned replacement schools? I think the impact of an influx of students is going to hit schools over a wide area of Southern California well beyond the areas burned.
And I wonder, based on what happened here after the return to in person learning in schools after Covid, how many students will just vanish? Houses and schools were not destroyed here, but districts here reported that an amazing number of students never returned to their classrooms, and literally seemed to vanish.
And despite pledges from politicians to fast track rebuilding, looking at the process of rebuilding Paradise, the city ravaged by fire in 2018 in Northern California, all the impacted students will be likely be out of the education system by the time Los Angeles finishes rebuilding the school system.

 

[cabanafrau]

It's not going to be a one-size fits all solution that will serve all students well.

It's been astounding listening to my daughter who teaches HS special ed about the challenges still reverberating through the schools/student body post Covid. Now you're talking about communities of students who still bear Covid impacts who are now facing another multi-year disruption to their academic career, a great many of whom will be suddenly living in households under some incredible long-term stressors. That definitely is going to leave a mark.

DD has faced her own personal struggles in regard to educational disruption because of Covid interrupting her college years. At least every six months something pops up professionally where her colleagues make an assumption about what she did/learned regarding X, Y or Z in college and when and how she completed this or that -- only to be floored that she never experienced certain things or had to complete entirely different coursework to attempt to hone in on some area of study because things were in complete disarray during the shutdown.

 

[disneychrista]

An elementary school had extensive damage due to flood several years ago and those students were relocated to a different school while it wasn’t being rebuilt/repaired.