The not-so-normal school year: Post-COVID trauma continues to plague elementary schools

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USA TODAY

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

With COVID-19 quarantines in the rearview, grade school students are now meeting in person after years spent learning at home. USA TODAY reporters Alia Wong and Kayla Jimenez observed classrooms in California and Virginia to see how students, teachers, admin staff and parents are coping.

They asked, "Are we back to normal yet?" The short answer is no. The reporting team found new challenges on top of old ones. Veteran teachers are worrying that students may never catch up.

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0:00.0	Your first word I want you to spell is strength and with the national emergency lifted and
0:10.4	the COVID-19 pandemic and rear view, we zoomed in on schools across America to find out
0:15.6	how schools are coping.
0:17.0	Once you're ready, give me a thumbs up.
0:20.0	We asked, are we back to normal yet?
0:22.8	The answer, in short, is no.
0:27.0	USA Today Journalists found new challenges on top of the old ones.
0:31.2	Veteran educators tell us they're scared that students may never catch up.
0:37.2	I'm Alia Wong, an Education Reporter for USA Today.
0:41.2	Welcome to a special episode of Five Things.
0:44.6	Let us know what you think of this story by sending us a note at podcasts at USAToday.com.
0:49.9	Ready?
0:50.9	I read it first, then you follow.
0:52.5	Top it.
0:53.5	Top it.
0:54.5	Transport it.
0:55.5	Transport it.
0:56.5	Straight in.
0:57.5	For tally.
0:58.5	For tally.
0:59.5	Loosening.
1:00.5	Loosening.
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