“Okay, you want to get your information from Snapchat? Go right ahead.”

Greg Hey is a middle school teacher in Burridge, Illinois. He has been a teacher for 27 years and has dealt with nothing that compares to the struggles of Covid and misinformation in his classroom. Natalie Hey: can you introduce yourself? Greg Hey: Hey, I’m Greg Hey I am a sixth-grade science teacher at Gower […]

“They couldn’t fire us; they needed us. I didn’t slack off, but I could have if I wanted to.”

Mason Schoof, 21, is a fourth-year civil engineering student at UW-Milwaukee. During the pandemic, Schoof worked at Walmart in his hometown of Muskego. Schoof gained perspective on the gravity of the pandemic through his experiences there. Natalie Hey: What was working like during the pandemic? Mason Schoof: Sometimes it was nice because we would close […]