Remote learning can feel nearly impossible for the 1.5 million children experiencing homelessness in the U.S. School provides resources they don't have access to otherwise, and experts are worried about the toll this pandemic is taking on them.
Mariana Aceves, 8, does her homework on her bed. She lives with her mother, Lorena Aceves, in a one-room"tiny house," part of Seattle's transitional housing for homeless families.Mariana Aceves, 8, does her homework on her bed. She lives with her mother, Lorena Aceves, in a one-room"tiny house," part of Seattle's transitional housing for homeless families.
Aceves and her daughter have a tiny amount of private space. Other homeless families have no privacy at all. "I can't really find a specific space where it's, like, quiet and calm and I can actually have Wi-Fi," Aguilar says.Tisha Tallman, National Center for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth
"Whenever I'm, like, in the environment of it being really loud," Aguilar says,"I tend to, like, read over and over and over and over the assignment."
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