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Lisa Juliar was resolved when distance learning began last spring: She d do whatever she could to offer her son the kind of one-on-one assistance he d been getting at school.
But even with her help, Cooper, a senior at Mounds View High School, has struggled mightily with distance learning. He has a rare chromosomal condition called Cri-du-chat that affects his speech and language, and he s had trouble expressing himself during Zoom classes. He sometimes grows so frustrated he starts screaming, grabbing at his mother s hair and even slamming the laptop shut. These are not behaviors he had in school, Juliar said. It s not that the teachers aren t doing as much as they can, but distance learning just isn t working for my son.