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First-grade teacher Morgan Dragg is pictured in her Monroe Elementary classroom Monday. Dragg is in her first year of teaching after her student teaching ended early when the pandemic hit last spring. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
When the pandemic hit Oklahoma last March, shuttering schools, Morgan Dragg was just a week into her student teaching at Roosevelt Elementary.
Early childhood student teachers like Dragg get two eight-week blocks, giving them time to work with two classrooms and grade levels.
Dragg was looking forward to the transition to her second classroom when schools went on spring break and never returned that school year.