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As Students Return To Classrooms, One Group Is Noticeably Still Learning at Home: Asian Americans
Friday, April 9, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Campus Monitor Nolan Gregoire disinfects a slide at Greer Elementary in Arden-Arcade, Thursday, April 8, 2021.
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When Elk Grove Unified School District announced it would be starting a hybrid model of schooling this month, with some in-classroom and some remote-class days, parent Winnie Tam Hung says it was a no-brainer: Her two elementary-school aged children would be staying home.
“I’m hesitant because of all this rise in anti-Asian violence,” Hung said. “I experienced a lot of racial bullying as a kid, given this current climate I’m very hesitant about being out in public with my children and sending my children back to school.”