What Parents Should Know as California Heads Back to School

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Many parents and kids are feeling relief as the state's 6 million K-12 school children head back into the classroom for full time, in-person classes after more than a year of mostly distance learning. But fears over the spread of the highly contagious delta coronavirus variant have other parents signing their children up for independent study and demanding online zoom classes. Experts and state officials continue to back a full reopening, pointing to rising absenteeism, depression and anxiety among many children, as well as devastating loss of learning for students in predominantly low-income school districts. We'll talk about what California's schools are doing to keep students safe and address parents' concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	From KQED, Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, millions of California children have returned to school this month
1:04.0	with joy and fear, as the pandemic brings a whole new meaning to first day of school jitters.
1:10.0	The stress of positive virus tests
1:12.0	and the scars of the last 18 months have accompanied the usual excitement of a brand new school
1:16.7	year. As a fraction of schools have already had to quarantine classrooms due to positive
1:22.4	tests, we take a closer look this hour at California's reopening guidelines for keeping kids safe amid the Delta variant.
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1:47.7	As students re-entered classrooms this month, emotions have ranged from joy, relief, and fear,
1:55.0	to even sadness at time lost for students and parents across California.
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