Teachers and students adjust to remote learning amid coronavirus pandemic

Teachers and students adjust to remote learning amid coronavirus pandemic

FOX 29's Alex George reports on teachers and students starting new lessons online due to COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW JERSEY - For some students, science class in your kitchen comes with a few distractions. When snack time is over, the new age of online learning means being able to get back to work.

For New Jersey high school student Cadence Zilai, the transition hasn’t been too rough.

“You can work at your own pace. If you want to finish something, you have the time.” Zilai said.

But for others like fourth grader Lilly Rohrer, it’s getting harder to get things done. This is especially difficult on her first official online day of learning when the network crashed and assignments are not working out the way that they were planned.

“I can’t believe it’s coming out of my mouth now to say I wanna go to school," Rohrer said.

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Shawn Ellis teaches five different levels of French to children, ages 13 through 17. 

“As a teacher, I have been online now from seven in the morning to 11:30 at night responding to emails from parents and kids. Because we are in unprecedented times, it’s really how do we manage this and move forward so that we actually deliver a real education, hold the kid accountable for the work, and be able to stay sane," Ellis said.

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