In California, a million English learners are at risk of intractable education loss Paloma Esquivel © Provided by The LA Times Aida Vega and her 13-year-old daughter, whose progress in learning English was disrupted by the pandemic. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Aida Vega’s 13-year-old daughter, who has attended Los Angeles schools since kindergarten and is in eighth grade, still struggles to read and write English.
Vega has long pushed for extra help so her child can master the language. Early last year, she felt confident that a breakthrough was at hand her daughter’s teachers had a plan to start additional tutoring in March.
How COVID distance learning hurt California English learners
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Redondo Beach: Are We Depriving Them?
Further south in Redondo Beach, the total coronavirus case rate is at one of the lowest levels in L.A. County. The school district there already opened elementary schools over a month ago.
Even so, Valerie Castro is keeping her twin daughters, second graders, at home. We have been fairly conservative with our COVID precautions. We rarely go out, Castro said. Like, I remember at one point I went to Barnes and Noble and walked around for half an hour..and my husband was like, Oh my god that was so risky.
Castro worried about spreading the virus to her in-laws, who they see fairly regularly, with social distancing and mask protocols in place. Plus, she said, her daughters have already done pretty well in distance learning and have each other for company.