Online Distance Learning: Q&A with local HS students
Online Distance Learning: Q&A with local HS students
Zoe Swire, freshman at San Mateo High School
The Catalyst (TC): So Zoe, what what is your school doing for the fall semester. Zoe Swire (ZS): We have been online for the whole school year so far. (TC): Are you enjoying it? (ZS): I think it's not as fun as being in actual school but it's not that bad either. (TC): Do you wish you could go to school? (ZS): Yeah, I wish I could meet new people, especially because we're freshmen now. (TC): Are yo...
Mira Hoey, freshman at Lick Wilmerding High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Mira Hoey (MH): This fall semester my school is doing online learning. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? MH: I wish my high school was going on campus for this semester because going to a new school with people that I don’t kn...
Charlotte Macavoy, freshman at San Mateo High School
The Catalyst (CT): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Charlotte Macavoy (CM): I am doing online learning this semester. CT: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? CM: I wish we were able to do on campus but maybe take have us spaced out in the outside area of the school. CT: NDB is continuing ...
Avery Rosklansky, freshman at San Mateo High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Avery Rosklansky (AR): My school is just doing all online this semester. I’m not sure when we are planning on going back though. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? AR: I wish we were doing on campus because it is freshman year...
Aria Deshpande, sophomore at The Bay School of San Francisco
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: on campus, hybrid, or online? Aria Deshpande (AD): Completely online. TC: What does your typical school day look like? AD: I wake up, and then class starts at 8:45, and we have two and a half hour classes Monday through Wednesday, and two classes each day. Then Thursday and Friday we have three 60 minute classes. Each class we have two t...
Ava Jelniker, sophomore at Hillsdale High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: on campus, hybrid, online, or something else? Ava Jelniker (AJ): Online. TC: What does your typical school day look like? AJ: We sit in our chairs and we do our classes online, and we listen to the teacher and fill out worksheets. TC: What do you wish that your school was doing for the fall semester: on campus, hybrid, or online? AJ...
Luc Hernandez, junior at Aragon High School
The Catalyst (TC): What's a typical day of school like for you? Luc Hernandez (LH): I wake up around 8:30, I get online at around 10 minutes late because I'm terrible at being on time for my classes...each class is around 1 hour 30 minutes, something like that. TC: How are you coping with shelter in place and keeping in touch with your friends? LH: [I like] playing video games, going outside, and playing the guitar...
Ellen Grey, junior at Aragon High School
The Catalyst (TC): So what is a typical day like for you? Ellen Grey (EG): Well I guess we have school, that starts at 930 so I usually go [then]. It starts at 930 on some days and nine on other days but I usually wake up around eight. You know, eat breakfast and then I get to school at nine usually. And I have my first class which is an hour and 20 minutes, which is really long. We have five-minu...
Caitlin Musich, junior at Hillsdale High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is the typical day of school like for you? Caitlin Musich (CM): We have all our odd classes [on] Monday and Thursday and all of our even classes [on] Tuesday and Friday. And then Wednesday you go through all of them for almost half an hour. You have to log in to the zoom class you have to stay there for the whole duration of the period. And then you just log off and enjoy i...
Jason Huang, junior at Serra High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day of school for you? Jason Huang (JH): I wake up early in the morning and get prepared for school. After a long day on Zoom, I rest a little bit and then get prepared for practice. After practice, I do my homework and go to bed. TC: How are you doing with school right now: academically, socially, or personally? JH: Academically, I'm doing a good job keeping up ...
Stuart Raass, sophomore at Serra High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day of school for you? Stuart Raass (SR): On Mondays, I usually have my first two morning classes then my free period right before lunch. After lunch, I have my last afternoon class so I finish school by 2:30. I do a bit of homework and by 3:30 I begin to do some stretching since I leave for practice at 4:30. TC: How are you doing with school right now:...
Matthew Gonzalez, sophomore at Aragon High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day of school for you? Matthew Gonzalez (MG): On Tuesdays and Thursdays I wake up at 7:30 and go for a run for 30 minutes. Come back at 8 and get ready for school that starts at 9. Class for 1 and a half hours and 15 min breaks. School ends at 3:00. On Wednesdays, the class starts at 9:30 with 30-minute classes and ends at 2:15. On Monday and Friday, it’s a normal ...
Reilly Moore, senior at Design Tech High School
The Catalyst (TC): Can you tell me about like an average school day for you right now? Reilly Moore (RM): I have two classes and I get on every morning at 8:45 for my advisory, which is like my homeroom. And then at 9:05 I have English, and then at 10:10 I have government. Then after that, I'm done. But we also have this thing called flex time for Tuesdays and Thursdays, which is an opportuni...
Leilani Zimmerman, senior at Aragon High School
The Catalyst (TC): Can you tell me about a typical school day for you right now? Leilani Zimmerman (LZ): A typical school day would consist of waking up at 8:30 and starting class at nine. Then, we get a 10 or 15 minute break in between each class, and we have three to four classes a day depending on what day because we started using a block schedule. We didn't use that with in-person class...
Gia Elhihi, senior at Carlmont High School
The Catalyst (TC): So what exactly is your school doing for the fall semester? Are you on campus, are you hybrid, or are you just doing online for the whole semester? Gia Elhihi (GE): We're doing online for as far as we know, we might do a hybrid closer the second semester but I don't know. I think it depends on the number of cases, but for now we're doing online. We do it through an app calle...
Katie Toledo, senior at Saint Ignatius
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day in your life like with online distance learning? Katie Toledo (KT): “Well, I wake up in the morning about 20 minutes early, and I prepare for my class, get my workspace ready and start my day. I have many breaks in between classes, you know, eat my lunch, hop back on in class, and my day is done at 3.” TC: Have you attended other school e...
Sophia Soliman, senior at Mercy High School, Burlingame
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day in your life like with online distance learning? Sophia Soliman (SS): I wake up around 8 a.m. and I start class at 8:15 on Zoom. My school day ends at 2:30 p.m. TC: Have you attended other school events on Zoom besides your classes? SS: “I’ve done club meetings and I’ve done rallies.” For rallies on Zoom we have done Kahoots, and the ...
Madison Kammuller, senior at Burlingame High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is a typical day in your life like with online distance learning? Madison Kammuller (MK): I wake up around 8-8:30, and then I get ready for my Zoom classes at 9 a.m. My classes go for about an hour and a half with 15 minute breaks throughout the day as if we were actually on campus. TC: Have you attended other school events on Zoom besides your classes? MK: The only event th...
Marlon Barrios, senior at San Mateo High School
The Catalyst (TC): What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Marlon Barrios (MB): “I prefer it to be in person because I feel like teachers assign more work without being able to put into perspective the amount of assignments they hand out. Being at home, I feel like educators often forget that I now need to balance family and schoolwork an...
Jordan Lerner, senior at D-Tech High School
The Catalyst (TC): What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Jordan Lerner (JL): “I wish school was hybrid because it would be nice to go in if I needed extra help or just wanted to switch up my work environment.” TC: How do you feel about coming to school on-campus with others who might not be that careful with hand washing, mask ...
Adrian Mogannam, freshman at Serra High School
The Catalyst (TC): What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Adrian Mogannam (AM): “I prefer to do online learning because I enjoy sleeping in a lot more than getting up early to have to drive to school.” TC: How do you feel about coming to school on-campus with others who might not be that careful with hand washing, mask wearing, or ...
Parisa Shariff, sophomore at Carlmont High School
The Catalyst(TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or...? Parisa Shariff(PS): For the first semester we're just doing full online. Yeah, everything's on the screen. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or..? PS: I hope that we could, well maybe, I think that we should like start doing ...
Enya Liu, sophomore at Archbishop Mitty High School
The Catalyst(TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Enya Liu(EL): We're doing online for fall semester. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? EL: Even though I know it's not the exactly the first time I wish we would all go back to school because I miss seeing people on campu...
Emiliana Lo, sophomore at Archbishop Mitty High School
The Catalyst(TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Emiliana Lo(EL): So we're doing online learning, four days a week, we usually have Wednesday off to do like office hours or meeting teachers. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? EL: I like the idea of hybrid just becau...
Gia Elhihi, senior at Carlmont High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester ... on campus, hybrid, online,or something else? Gia Elhihi (GE): So we're doing online, and so we'll have a Zoom schedule so we'll do Zoom classes and then we'll get homework. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester? GE: It can be different but a lot of teachers all of their online stuf...
Sophia Badame, senior at St. Francis High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, or…? Sophia Badame (SB): Online. TC: What do you wish your school would do for the ideal situation in the fall semester? SB: I mean I really like hybrid but online is a safer type of situation. TC: NDB is continuing online distance learning until December. What do you think about that? SB: I think it...
Caroline Stevens, senior at Nueva High School
The Catalyst (TC): What is your school doing for the fall semester: On-campus, hybrid, online, etc.? Caroline Stevens (CS): We've been doing online Zoom calls five days a week. And every month is our normal schedule just on Zoom, but in November, they're going to test out some kind of hybrid thing where it will be like one day a week. Students can choose to opt in or out to do a half-day on camp...
Claire Manuel, junior at Woodside High School
Catalyst(CS): First question: what is your school doing for the fall semester? Are you on campus or using a hybrid model or are you all online? Claire Manuel(CM): We're completely online, we've laid up our schedule a little bit different from our normal school schedule, our classes end either at around 1:00 or 2:30, which is a lot earlier than normal. The way that they've ...
Emily Kiefer, senior at Aragon High School
The Catalyst(CS) First question, what is your school doing for the fall semester? Are you on campus hybrid or are you all online? Emily Kiefer(EK) So our school is all online. CS: What do you wish your school would do for the fall semester. EK: I do want us and our school to be safe and I do want everyone to be following proper social dist...
Chesney Evert, sophomore at Carlmont High School
The Catalyst(CS): First question. What is your high school doing for the fall semester, are you on campus, are you in a hybrid model, or are you doing a mixture of both? Chesney Evert(CE): We are online as of now, all online. CS: Okay. And what do you wish your school was doing for the fall semester? CE: Honestly, I really just want them to do wh...
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