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Chasing Life

Back to School Jitters

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off a week of episodes dedicated to how kids, teachers and parents are grappling with back to school safety. What are the best solutions for in-person or remote learning? Will there be a "Covid slide" in childhood education? What's a pod? Today, CNN anchor Laura Jarrett joins Dr. Sanjay Gupta to answer some of your most pressing questions. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Not surprisingly, the majority of listener questions we've been getting nowadays are about

0:06.5

education and how children and teachers and faculty and staff everyone could go back

0:12.1

to school safely.

0:14.1

Even my three daughters want to know it's topic number one in our household.

0:18.4

What's going to happen during the new school year?

0:21.0

For months school districts nationwide have been scrambling trying to figure out just

0:25.5

how to reopen safely.

0:27.1

My daughter doesn't want to go back to school.

0:29.7

She wants to keep the family safe.

0:31.6

The Trump administration wants schools open again ASAP.

0:35.9

Around this time it's pretty normal for all of us to get the back to school jitters, but

0:40.9

this year it's really something else.

0:43.9

Whether you're a student, a parent or an educator, COVID-19 is forcing us to all reconsider what

0:49.8

school is going to look like.

0:51.9

In-person classes, remote learning, or some hybrid of the two.

0:57.0

Both lies ahead.

0:58.0

So today we're going to do our best to answer some of your questions.

1:02.4

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent and a dad.

1:08.0

This is coronavirus.

1:09.5

Fact versus fiction.

1:16.1

For today's episode, I'm going to hand things over to one of CNN's education experts, Laura

1:21.4

Jarrett.

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