Volunteers distribute meals to people waiting in a long line of cars at Ochoa Learning Center in Cudahy.
By Howard Blume | Deadline LA
This week Monday, April 6th, on Deadline L.A., host Howard Blume went on a field trip to check in on school without, well, without a school.
In recent days, it’s become clear, if it wasn’t already that, because of efforts to limit the coronavirus, campuses are not likely to reopen for the remainder of the traditional academic year. Schools have been signing out computers so students can continue studies from home, and volunteers are distributing meals in plastic bags at selected schools to any who want them.
Blume went to see the meal and computer distribution at three campuses, spending part of the time with school board member Jackie Goldberg, who made it clear she didn’t like one of Blume’s recent articles for the L.A. Times. He had written about the 15,000 high school students who hadn’t shown up online for the first two weeks of “distance learning.” She felt the article should have focused more on the 88% of high schoolers who were able to log in.
She nonetheless offered him a ride until Blume pointed out that they shouldn’t be in the same car together.
Goldberg, who is 75 and at potential risk from COVID-19, went from school to school thanking the volunteers handing out food – from her car, through an open window.
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