Building the Foundation for Change

ABSTRACT

In fall 2021, four students and two teachers from a high school in Providence, Rhode Island recorded an hour and a half long discussion on how schooling and education has changed in the wake of a global pandemic, and its potential for change. Many students involved have spent their entire educational career in this small public charter system, which is made up of majority students of color from Providence. "Returning to Normal" Student Experiences After Quarantine Ashley Herrera Mantanico I took this question about what normal looked like before and I feel like much has changed in terms of our own perspectives because there's more focus on mental health and how it affects students of color in my school. Other students may not benefit from how the school system works and are looked as being "lazy" but genuinely they have different ways of learning, it doesn't mean they are dumb or not trying, if you have a group of students failing, something is wrong about how subjects are being taught or what the curriculum allows teachers to show their students.