“It’s a surprise every night,' says one of Amy Brantley's students
“It feels really good knowing that they get some part of their normal lifer back, even if it’s just for a short period of time,” she says. “But for those 25 minutes, I give them some part of their normal life because this is not normal.”“It’s super sweet and so important, especially when right now we’re just surviving,” she says. “Matthew doesn’t understand why he’s not going to school. He asks 15 times a day when he’s going back to school.”Image zoom“I had one student crying.
The 36-year old mother of two plans to continue the nightly ritual five days a week until they go back to school. “I just can’t imagine not communicating with them,” she says. “They are extremely important to me. I have two kids of my own and I always say I have 25 kids total. I can’t see them all every day, but something is better than nothing.”
On Thursday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said families should expect schools to be closed for longer than the two weeks proposed last weekend. As of Friday afternoon, there were at least 103 cases of coronavirus and no reported deaths in North Carolina, according to theAs information about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changes,is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication.
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