I hadn’t meant to attend elementary school. I mean, I already graduated from fourth grade about a billion years ago, when I was a kid in Northridge.
It all seemed daunting at first. Days after schools closed in mid-March, Ms. Johnson had to master a new technology. The children had to get used to seeing her only onscreen, and to turning in their work by photographing it and posting it on Class Dojo, the app she used to communicate with students and parents. Parents had to find a way not to lose their minds.Ms. Johnson: “Please stop that! Please stop that! This is a classroom. You can’t just get up and walk away.
“Ms. Johnson, did you know there’s a jellyfish that’s immortal?” asked one very science-minded boy. “Seriously.” I learned that a Lincoln penny weighs 2.5 grams and that a kilogram is about six apples.