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Teaching Ties

While the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreading around the world has led to travel restrictions and social distancing, the ties between many teachers from North America working for companies like VIPKid, a Beijing-based online English tutoring company, and their Chinese students have grown closer. Due to the robust demand for online courses in China during the epidemic, teachers have continued to work through these difficult times, while many of them have received support from their Chinese students.

“My favorite regular student sent face masks for my family. He sent so many that I was able to share them with many of my friends in the medical field. Kindness reaches all corners of the Earth,” a teacher named Meg posted

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