By Kimberly B. Mr. Martinez is 9th grade English teacher, Leadership teacher, and a coach for Diego Rivera’s SRLA team. During this time of the wildfires, what were your initial thoughts when coming to school during the bad air quality? Oh man, I hated it. I was like, I don’t know why we’re coming to school. Something similar happened when I was in high school, when there was fires, and you could literally see the ash come down and I remember breathing that in and having coughs, and it sucked. I was like, I don’t know
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by Emmanuel O. Mr. Nueva is the Chemistry teacher for CATS. Where were you when you found out about the fire? I was at home. I’m pretty sure what I was doing. I was on Reddit and I saw a post about all the fires. Were you affected by the fire or any of your family members? I personally was not affected. I live kinda far away from here, I’m a little bit closer to the Altadena fire the one by Pasadena. I was a little closer to that but I was thankfully not affected by
We talk to two students about Fentanyl-pill overdoses among students.
I interviewed a current Senior at CATS. She plans to graduate and continue her education in college. She plans to go to the medical field and become a surgeon. Her studies are very important to her and in her free time, she likes to read different varieties of books or play video games.
Lesly Gomez is a current Freshman attending Cal State Dominguez Hills during the pandemic. She goes to school while working and taking care of her family so she is someone who would have been affected drastically due to the circumstances. I asked her five questions about her experiences learning online:
Ms. Tello has the duty to make sure each student is attending their classes and isn’t truant. She knows with distant learning, there has been significant change with student attendance for online classes. Here are five questions that I asked her.