Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place won't be quite the same.
You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures -- face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations.
But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman wasn't.
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"This make me sad," Forman said as he toured the Venice classroom where his son once attended kindergarten. "This was a vibrant room full of life, color, activity."