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U.S. School Buildings Are Closed For the Rest of the Academic Year; Education Experts Voice Concerns About Summer Learning Loss; Huge Hailstones In Argentina Break Records; Couple Lives Happily Off the Grid in Vancouver
Aired May 05, 2020 - 04:00 ET
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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Welcome back to CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz. We`ve been getting a lot of questions about how long we plan to be producing our
show. Our current spring season runs through Friday, May 29th after that we`ll be off the air until Monday August 17th. If you are a student,
chances are you`re watching this from home. School buildings have been closed in all 50 American states and five American territories though many
schools are still in session online. In at least 45 states plus the District of Columbia, students won`t be returning to campus at all for the
rest of this academic year.
That might wind up being the case across the entire country though a few states may give schools the option of reopening before summer break.
Students, teachers, administrators and parents have made sacrifices to keep the learning going. They`ve missed out on plays, presentations, proms,
graduations, sports, science fairs, book fairs, all sorts of trips and competitions adding to this challenge is the summer learning loss also
known as the summer setback or the summer slide. It`s a time when students forget some of what they`ve learned during the school year and it`s
expected to be worse because of corona virus shutdowns.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m worried about where they will be if they`re going to be at the level they should be at when they get back into school next
year. I do think though, learning loss is huge.
LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR OF EARLY START: Parents across the nation growing increasingly anxious with school closed for months as education
experts begin to warn of a possible COVID slide for student heading into summer break.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So it`s kind of a double whammy of starting to forget and losing that kind of academic mindset we had at school, and missing out
on a couple important ones of instruction. Particularly for those young kids where we know learning happens at a really fast rate.
JARRETT: Drawing on existing data from roughly 5 million students in 3rd through 8th grade, Megan Kufeld a research scientist at the Northwest
Evaluation Association has been using learning losses typically seen in the summer to forecast how extended school closures could cause significant
backslides for students currently struggling to adapt to remote instruction.
MEGAN KUFELD: What we saw was pretty alarming.
JARRETT: Kufeld predicts that for students working through the toughest conditions now. Come fall they could have retained as little as 70 percent
of their reading progress and only 50 percent of gains they`ve made in math. Potentially serious secondary consequences of COVID-19 widening the
achievement gap between wealthier and lower income students.
KUFELD: There`s a lot of technology limitations. We know many at least don`t have access to internet or a quiet place for kids to be reading.
JARRETT: Already teachers like Jill Maranon (ph), a special ed teacher in New York, says she sees the signs of students falling behind.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Fifth graders that were strong writers in school who would have never turned in anything without editing it first. You see what
the work they`re turning in, it`s missing capitals. It`s missing punctuation, run-on sentences. It`s just lacking that quality that they
had at school and that they just don`t have now.
JARRETT: And it`s not just concerned teachers and parents, kids are stressed about school too.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I had a second grader say to me, Miss (inaudible) do you think I`m going to be allowed to go to 3rd grade. Am I doing OK? It
breaks your heart to think, like, this is what this seven year old is thinking.
JARRETT: While the full extent of any COVID slide remains to be seen, parents like Kristen DeCarlo (ph) a mom of three in Atlanta, says she hopes
teachers are ready to adapt to learning losses whenever classrooms finally reopen.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: School systems are going to have to pick up and recognize. They - - they can`t expect a child from pre-Algebra into
Algebra immediately. There`s going to have to be some remediation.
JARRETT: Laura Jarrett, CNN, New York.
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AZUZ: 10 Second Trivia. Which of these words comes from a 16th century novel about a giant king? Colossal, gargantuan, prodigious or
brobdingnagian. The first known of gargantuan followed the publication of the French literary character "Gargatua" in the 1500s`.
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AZUZ: For today`s virtual field trip, we`re taking you so far off the grid you can`t get there by road. And if you think well I`ll just hop on the
ferry, even that will take you 45 minutes from the nearest town. Freedom Cove is located off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia,
Canada. It`s about 200 miles northwest of Seattle, Washington but worlds away.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do you say to people who just say, this is not a normal (inaudible)?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m Katherine (ph) and this is my husband Wayne.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I`m Wayne (ph) and welcome to Freedom Cove. We live in a secluded cove. The only options we have to get here is by water.
There are no road accesses. The water is our highway.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everything that you see here in our home is floating. We are tied to shore with lines. We are not anchored. We have our main
living house. We have the dance floor, the lighthouse building, four grain houses. As I started to grow the garden and make it larger than we had to
have more space for that garden.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everything`s done with handsaw and hammer. No power tools. I know every board and nail by name. It`s about 500 tons, 1
million pounds that I`m floating. I`ve been building tree forts since I was seven.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I said well Dad, I`m putting a tree fort in the ocean.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you ever get seasick?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, when I go to town I get land sick. The thing about living in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast with Vancouver Island is it`s
the richest biomass on Earth. So the opportunity to fish for dinner is - - I just can get in my canoe and paddle out and in 10 minutes I can catch a
fish. But when it`s windy and too rough out there I can lay on the couch and fish out of the house. I was hoping to make a lot more money as an
artist. So subsistence living was our only opportunity to have anything as ours. We could never buy real estate so we had to make our own. It was a
great opportunity to actually move away from the city, to see if we could prosper out here. Now 24 years later, we`re still doing it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can`t imagine living any other way. I feel completely fulfilled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s good honey (ph). That`s really nice. (inaudible)
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AZUZ: My sports casting abilities are going to the dogs. The gate is up, "Little Stretch" makes a late surge. She`s across in a thrilling finish.
Much more energy than the last heat when "Long Shot" had that tripping problem. Guess not every dog`s a wiener. But what do professional sports
casters to when there are no live games to call?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When no applausable thumbs, high risk at this stage and Mabel (ph) takes it. No mercy from the younger dog.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now it`s all about the asparagus. Courtney`s (ph) got the angle. She`s got the pad. It`s outta here. Asparagus and Potatoes.
Asparagus and Potatoes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (inaudible) the 12 time champion with the trolley. How does she keep doing it year after year.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here they` come. They`ve completed lap number five. You got Lexi (ph) in the lead, Louie`s (ph) trying to track her down.
Here`s Louie (ph) to the inside. Oh back - - oh Millie (ph) gets (inaudible) they made contact.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crossroad. Dash light turns to red. We wait for the beeps. There they are now and (inaudible) over the shoulder and "Leggings"
going to get there. She does it again.
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AZUZ: That`s the way to "make" the best of it. When you can`t use the press box you could still use your voice box. When you can`t hit the
"links" you can still use your larynx. So if you`re aiming to "strike a chord" with viewers who can only watch from "phone". You just take a deep
breath, make the right call and fans will be vocal in their support. Aviano Middle High School is in Aviano, Italy, we thank you for your
support in commenting on our YouTube channel. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN.
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