Camila Azcurrain-Joffee, eight, and Yuko Legarreta, nine, both in fourth grade.
The Earth School.
What did you do today?
C. A-J.: I took a small tour, but it was really only to the bathroom. This is my first year at this school.
Y. L.: I’ve been here since kindergarten. Before, when I was in third grade, I’d go to a classroom for open work and I kind of just chilled there with my friends, and it was, like, all the tables were together, and there were, like, four people sitting together at one table—some of the tables had five people. It’s not like that anymore.
Do you think you’ll get used to the changes?
Y. L.: No.
C. A-J.: It’s just really different, after five years of going close to each other, playing close to each other, roughhousing. For free time, you’ve got to stay at your seat; you can’t go anywhere else. You’ve got to social-distance in your seats, too—there’s benches, and they have “X”s on them, and that’s where you sit.
