Sadie Pimpleton is a single grandmother raising her grandchildren in Seattle. She recently survived COVID-19. She spent five days in the hospital and remembers feeling like it was the end for her. She is now back home and adjusting to life in lockdown with her grandkids. She leans on her community of other grandmothers and on her faith for support. The grandmothers group started sewing masks together as a way to cope, by doing something to help others. Pimpleton says things like sewing masks and her church livestreams every Sunday are what get her through each week.
The law protects Native children from being taken from their homes without tribal involvement. The case before the state Supreme Court could tighten those rules.
"I'm worried that my grandparents are going to die." "I'm worried that when I come back to school not all my friends will be there." These are some of the statements that Caitlin McNulty, a kindergarten teacher in Shoreline School District's North City Elementary, has to navigate. Teaching remotely from her apartment, McNulty and her colleagues have faced many challenges as they aim to provide an equitable education to students in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.
