As the students have spent month-upon-month engaged in online learning, officials at all levels of government have expressed concerns about the wellbeing of the young learners and debated the path for getting kids back into classrooms. Through all the back-and-forth over the best steps for returning to hybrid or in-person learning, students have continued to do their best despite the disruption, isolation, and challenges they face on a daily basis from the pandemic.
To learn more about what students are experiencing, we asked five students in the Boston Public School district to share their concerns, their feedback for officials, and what they hope others can learn from what they have gone through since the pandemic began.