'Education has changed forever' - COVID upended K-12 schooling, and there's no going back April 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Christina Hernandez teaches a writing class to students in her classroom at Rhodes Middle School as well as those attending remotely Wednesday. About half of San Antonio ISD students are still learning remotely.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News In March 2020, Sean Maika was getting ready for a family camping trip when he realized that everything was about to change, fast — not just his spring break plans, but his job as superintendent of North East Independent School District and education as a whole. It was a phone call from Taylor Eighmy, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, who told Maika he was shutting down his campuses because the coronavirus had arrived and was starting to circulate locally.