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Odessa, Part 3: The Band Bus Quarantine

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Last fall, as Odessa High School brought some students back to campus with hybrid instruction, school officials insisted mask wearing, social distancing and campus contact tracing would keep students and faculty safe. And at the beginning of the semester, things seemed to be going OK. But then a spike in coronavirus cases hit town, putting the school’s safety plan to the test. In part three of our four-part series, we follow what happened when a student quarantine stretched the school’s nurses to capacity, fractured friendships and forced some marching band members to miss a critical rite of passage: the last football game of their high school career.

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0:00.0

Today, the third installment of our special series,

0:04.5

documenting life inside one of the nation's first school districts,

0:09.1

to try to reopen during the pandemic.

0:15.2

I was actually wondering if you would show me around your room a little bit.

0:19.1

There's like a mass like really.

0:22.5

It doesn't have to be clean. My room is also not clean.

0:25.2

Yeah, it's fine. Okay, okay.

0:30.4

I'm in a long, that's, I don't know what I'm saying.

0:33.6

There's my bed. That's like, where do I make up and whatever.

0:38.6

That's my room.

0:40.9

You're like, you can look at the ceiling. I'm not showing you the floor.

0:45.8

As a messy person myself, I will not describe for you the state of V&A

0:50.2

subaida's room on this particular day, or whether or not her bed was made.

0:55.1

Right there is like a picture of the whole band for my sophomore year.

0:59.4

But I can say that on her walls are some very beloved photographs.

1:03.9

Over here is a picture of my quince with all my like,

1:06.4

diamonds and my chambelan.

1:08.3

And above her bed is a favorite photo from her quinceignera.

1:12.0

I love so much.

1:12.8

In the photo, she's wearing a poofy white dress with a tiara on top of her long curly hair.

1:20.1

And in her hands, she's holding a mellow phone,

1:23.3

the marching band version of a French horn.

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