Today, the fourth and final installment of our special series,

documenting life inside one of the nation's first school districts to try to reopen

during the pandemic.

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Okay, so I guess Alex is not going to join us today. So hello, ladies. All right. So

here's what we're doing today. I'm going to check your grades real quick and all the classes.

Four months into the COVID school year. The teacher we've been following at Odessa High School,

Naomi Fuentes was pulling up her students transcripts one by one. So English and dance,

are you able to do anything to get those grades up a little bit?

Failure rates at the school were up and she was trying to help her students get missing

assignments in before it was too late and the semester would be over. It does look like you're

missing an essay though and it's a major grade. But as had been the case all year,

are you there? Yes, I am. Okay. Is that something you can talk to the teacher about?

Naomi's classes were filled with silence and with many of her students joining remotely,

she had little idea what was going on for them on the other side of the screen.

So she had started sending out a Google form asking them to write in how they were doing,

what she was calling a wellness check. And we asked her to read some of their responses.

Okay, I'm doing fine today, not good or bad, just fine. The next one says,

been working day and night, I just hate it here. I'm just exhausted of staring at the screen

and being overwhelmed because I'm completely lost. Oh wow. Okay. I'm still not doing good. I'm just

overthinking, really sad and with no motivation. The next one, I've been going through a really bad

depression phase right now. I've been depressed, just not this depressed before, where I say,

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