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North Carolina School Builds Community Despite The Pandemic

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Lakewood Elementary bilingual volunteer Julie Mendoza Grubbs greeting families by phone. (Liz Schlemmer)
Lakewood Elementary bilingual volunteer Julie Mendoza Grubbs greeting families by phone. (Liz Schlemmer)

Teachers and volunteers at a school in Durham, North Carolina, are taking extra steps to communicate with students and their parents during the pandemic. They're providing bilingual information, tech help and sometimes a hot meal.

Liz Schlemmer of WUNC reports.

This segment aired on November 9, 2020.

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