French Mass celebrant Father Kenneth Healey, SM, processes in followed by Bishop Robert Hennessey of the Merrimack Region. Pilot photo/courtesy Patricia Hardy
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When COVID-19 began shutting America down in March of 2020, Lowell s Franco-American Day Committee was busy planning its 50th Franco-American Festival, including a gala 50th-anniversary celebration and its annual French Mass and June 24 raising of Quebec s flag at Lowell City Hall. Those plans were all postponed as weeks went by, the pandemic worsened, and finally, the 2020 Franco Festival had to be canceled. The committee stopped meeting and waited with everyone else for the development of vaccines that would make even a minimal 2021 Festival possible.
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First-grade teacher Jessica Gauthier works with her students during a math lesson Thursday at Farwell Elementary School in Lewiston. Students attend Summer STEM Camp four days a week over the summer.
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There is no substitute for in-person instruction.
Local school superintendents say this was one of the biggest takeaways from the pandemic year and one of the lessons they will carry forward.
“We have learned so much,” Lewiston Public Schools Superintendent Jake Langlais said. Probably the most valuable was the importance of face-to-face teaching and learning, he said.
“The dynamics of school that include routine, social interaction, nutrition, physical activity, nurses, guidance, student activities, parent/family connections, transportation, and so much more, have levels of fulfillment that cannot be satisfied looking at a computer screen,” Langlais said.
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