Homeroom
An often powerful look at an unprecedented school year.
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Peter Nicks documentary traces a year of institutional struggle and COVID-caused disruption in the Oakland public school system.
Early in Peter Nicks
Homeroom, the documentary announces itself as a chronicle of Oakland High School s 2019-2020 year. This activates an ominous metaphorical ticking clock.
You don t need heavy-handed foreshadowing to know that the class of 2020 is the COVID Class, to realize that the prom the bright-faced teens are looking forward to will never happen, that the graduation they re aiming for will be virtual, that the production of
In the Heights scheduled to open on March 20 is never going to see its curtain raised.
Here in Oakland Unified, we are on our winter break, usually a time when our students, staff and families are joyfully free of school and preparing to come together to celebrate the holidays or just enjoy some much needed time off.
As we all know, this year is different with the pandemic hanging over our heads.
I call on Governor Gavin Newsom and the health officials advising him to move educators closer to the front of the line to get the COVID vaccine sooner rather than later, because educators and school staff here and across the state do critical work every day.