As usual, Eirik Nielsen is running late. It’s a Friday in March, the day that turns out to be the last day inside Burton High School, and his carpool is waiting. Traffic is brutal across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, where the city’s wealth boxes out teachers and strains the lives of his students, some of the poorest in the city.
Am’Brianna Daniels leaves school early that day, after presenting her research on the Sokoto caliphate, a West African Islamic empire established in 1804. The murmurs of remote learning leave her uncertain, too: She doesn’t have a laptop or WiFi.It’s only two weeks, “I promise you this,” he tells them. “If you come in and you do your best every single day, you will walk out of my class with a C guaranteed. I haven’t failed a kid in three years, and it won’t be you.”Am’Brianna missed a lot of school when she was younger. Now, she is making good grades and plans to go to college.
The assignments from Nielsen start immediately, with videos posted online and questions to answer. With no computer or WiFi, Am’Brianna has to improvise: She pulls the assignments up on her iPhone, hand-writes the answers in her notebook and emails Nielsen a photo of her work.On March 13, students and faculty at Burton High School in San Francisco left the building expecting to be out for three weeks, for an extended spring break because of the novel coronavirus.
For a while, Nielsen wondered if there would even be an AP test this spring. But the College Board just announced that the tests would go on, administered online, at home and open book. The World History exam, pushed back to May 21, would be just 45 minutes, with 10 extra minutes allowed for students to submit their work.
Today, he explains the changes to the AP test, then speeds his way through the war’s causes: world powers gaining military strength and swelling nationalism across the globe. “New countries are forming, and they want power, they want prestige,” Nielsen says. Industrialism. Imperialism. Alliances. Colonial rivalries. And, of course, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
They used to rent the bottom floor of a house, but they moved here after monthly rent neared $4,000. His mom, who immigrated to the United States from Vietnam, scrapes by on earnings from a small nail salon. But her shop was closed by the pandemic, so she spends her days handling the family affairs while Jonathan watches his little sister, Gabrielle. Sometimes, she perches on his lap while he attends class. Mom takes over around 7:30 or 8 p.m.
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