Utica
Observer-Dispatch
UTICA — The big front porch and second- floor balcony on the otherwise modest home look like the perfect remote- learning classroom settings on a warm, sunny fall day.
But the street is too busy and the traffic too loud for the six remote learners who live here to venture outside, says Say Kler Paw, the middle child in this family of 11 Karen refugees, originally from Myanmar.
Instead, the students leave their shoes in the house’s entryway and pile inside along with their parents, maternal grandparents and oldest brother when he’s not at work at the Chobani plant in South Edmeston. The parents work, too, but as paid caregivers for the grandparents.