As schools across the country reopen, parents and educators are debating the relative merits of at-home and in-class learning.But what do students think? Our Student Reporting Labs program teamed up with Detroit Public Televisionfor a series of video diaries to document this very unusual school year as it unfolds. Here now are the students in their own words.The start of school is going to be very chaotic, just because no one really knows what's going on.Detroit Public Schools is having students take a survey about whether they want to take in-person learning or virtual learning.I chose online learning because I thought it was the safest.I'm a little sad that we're going to start online.And I just think the thought of doing things online in my own room by myself, it's a very isolating feeling.For me, I'm going to be going into school.I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm also excited too, like, get back to school, because it's been a really long time since I have actually physically been in school.Everything is still online, but you can go to the school, which I need because, if I'm at home,I just feel like I will go to sleep, or I won't take it as seriously as I should.When you go into a public building, you don't know where these people have been.You don't know what they have been touching. You don't know who they have been around.And there's just no way that you can say, yes, I'm completely clean and free of the virus.
