![]() Since her sister was born, Amaya has taken her to countless doctor appointments for severe dermatitis, sometimes missing class. With her mother in the hospital and classes still being held online, Amaya now had to care for both her three-year-old daughter, Alicia Amaya, and her four-year-old sister, Kimberley Amaya. Two hours later, the hospital called to tell her that her mother, Maria Juana Amaya, was going on a ventilator. Amaya was home by midnight, tearful and afraid, not knowing what would come next. Rose Hospital emergency room in Hayward, just south of Oakland. That night, she rushed her mother and stepfather, who was also sick, to the St. But on May 5, Amaya knew her mother had to go to the hospital once her breathing became labored. She insisted on staying home because she didn’t want to leave her children. Her mother started feeling the now-familiar symptoms in late April. “I honestly thought…that I wasn’t going to graduate,” said Amaya, 19. Then her family came down with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Her goal was getting to Friday’s graduation and become the first person in her family to graduate high school. Maintaining her drive and schedule was already a challenge on any given day, even prompting her to temporarily leave continuation school earlier this school year. Her days off were for completing homework assignment and spending time with her daughter. On most days, she would attend school in the mornings, arrive by noon for her receptionist job at a local non-profit recycling center, then work her manager shift at Popeyes until 11 p.m. Eyes on the Early Years Newsletter Archiveįor months before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Maria Amaya was working two jobs while raising her daughter and finishing high school at a continuation school in the San Francisco Bay Area.Local Control Funding Formula Explained.California’s Homeless Students: Undercounted, Underfunded And Growing.Full Circle: California Schools Work To Transform Discipline.Tainted Taps: Lead puts California Students at Risk.Education during Covid: California families struggle to learn.College And Covid: Freshman Year Disrupted.Adjuncts’ gig economy at CA community colleges.California’s Community Colleges: At a Crossroads.
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