Short YouTube interview/profile (uploaded March 31, 2021 by Manisha Snoyer) featuring Rose and her daughter Heaven White. Rose describes securing a scholarship so Heaven could attend Guardian Catholic School; both discuss challenges and successes with pandemic-era online learning and express gratitude. The transcript notes Heaven is in fifth grade and that she has asthma, which raised pandemic concerns.
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Fifth grade.
Guardian Catholic School.
Manisha Snoyer.
March 31, 2021.
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My name is Rose. I'm Heaven's mom. Well, originally I always wanted her to go to private school, but I was like, it's going to be very expensive for her to go to private school. So I'm like, let me start looking at a few little public schools and see where she can get in at, because I can't afford private school. And when I tell you that was a good thing because she got in, I applied for her and I was so excited that she was able to attend the private school because I know I didn't have the money financially.
My name is Heaven White. I am in fifth grade and I go to Guardian Catholic school. I enjoy going to guardian because I've been there since kindergarten. So I'm used to all the rules and the expectations that we need to meet. But it was very different to be online.
It was scary, you know, knowing about all the stuff that was coming out with the pandemic and the coronavirus because Heaven, you know, she suffers with asthma. And I know asthma is a big symptom that, you know, kind of makes the coronavirus a little bit more dangerous.
I was scared to get Covid. I was scared that we were going in a pandemic. I couldn't see my friends. We just had to stay home until my mom, she got it. So she had to be in her room 24 7. And so I couldn't see her that much. Like I could see her, but I couldn't be in the same room with her.
It's something we haven't experienced before. We never did online learning at all. So I did think that she may slack off or won't pay attention like she should when she's in the actual classroom. But she pulled it off. She's up on time, she's on that computer, you know, paying attention. Don't miss days back in class after lunch. So she's been doing really good with that.
Heaven has just acclimated herself so excellently to this distance learning. She's on at 8 o' clock in the morning. She has her uniform on. She participates through chat or questions. And I just a model student in this pandemic and very difficult and challenging times.
I just appreciate the scholarship. You know, Heaven was able to get into a private school with a scholarship because I had no idea before that she would be able to go to a private school on a scholarship, you know, at that. So. And I'm proud of her.
I'd say thank you so much because without you, I wouldn't be here without the people who supported me, I would not be in this position right now. So I'm very grateful for that. And I've worked so hard and to get here. It means a lot to me.
