COVID s lost generation: Money, time running out for NYC school kids left behind
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COVID s lost generation: Isolation, anxiety present challenges for NYC school kids
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The pandemic was still raging in the fall of 2020 when the city’s public schools launched a slow and painful reopening process that would take a full year to unfold. Hybrid classes, distancing, masks and testing were all part of a new regimen, aimed at recouping some normalcy. But while the debate swirled around how to keep kids and teachers safe, a dramatic shift occurred. Isolation and the .
Ariel De La Cruz woke up, rolled over and slapped the alarm ringing on his phone. The eighth-grader grabbed the Chromebook by his side and clicked on Google Meets. With his video switched off, he joined the class. Then he rolled over and went back to sleep. It’s 2020 and the city shut down as the coronavirus pandemic filled hospitals and morgues with the dying and the dead. Remote work became .