Then, the real work started. It was way above her reading level, Waldrop realized. Her third-grader grew frustrated with the assignments on Hall County, Georgia s online platform, especially when her teachers were slow to respond to her questions. She also missed PE, art and music.
Waldrop sent her back into her elementary school.
Tracey Clark, a mother in Cobb County, refused to do that. Schools aren t structured for social distancing, she said. A former teacher, she devised a plan to give her two boys, one in third grade like Waldrop s, the other in fourth, what they had been missing online.
How Newport Beach Ended Up With 2 Affordable Housing Units In 8 Years Monday, December 28, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
In this May 24, 2020, file photo, visitors gather on the beach during the Memorial Day weekend in Newport Beach, Calif. California s mood has gone from optimistic to sour as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are on the rise.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File
They say you get what you pay for, but when it comes to affordable housing, wealthy Southern California cities are paying to get almost nothing. And that’s exactly the way they want it.
Between 2013 and 2021, the state of California allocated the city of Newport Beach a total of two units of affordable housing, defined by the state as low- or very low-income. The state gave Lake Forest, a city of similar size and population, 1,097 units.
Kimmy Yam, NBC News, December 23, 2020
In a year that saw the closing of businesses, skyrocketing unemployment and ongoing hate incidents concurrent with the public health crisis, the severity of Asian Americans’ struggles has been minimized at best or gone unnoticed at worst, experts say.
Many trace the invisibility of the community’s challenges, in part, to the mythical characterization of the racial group as compliant, successful and faring well tropes that have long obscured the reality of their struggles.
Asian Americans are the racial group least likely to reach out for help. And that fact coupled with an already existing belief that AAPIs don’t struggle has only exacerbated pandemic-related problems for the community.