Alex City parents find themselves working two jobs as schools shut for a third time
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Siri Hedreen / The Outlook Cecily Lauderdale helps her son Gabriel with an assigment.

Each day at 5:30 p.m., Alexander City resident Cecily Lauderdale drives an hour-long commute to the main USPS facility in Montgomery.

The shift lasts until 4 a.m., unless there's overtime. Then there's the hour's drive home.

Feature | Teacher by day, breadwinner by night
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Siri Hedreen / The Outlook Sixth-grader Wandaful Lauderdale, fifth-grader Gabriel Lauderdale and seventh-grader Cederian Morgan attend school remotely from their living room.