With all the distractions at home, low-income students need headphones to study
by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
Mar 30, 2020
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - In her family's one-bedroom home every day unfolds with one distraction after another for 17-year-old Anais Hernandez: her mother cooking and cleaning in the kitchen; her disabled father watching high-volume TV news; the bustle of her younger sister in their East Los Angeles home.
There's no escape from the noise as Anais attempts to focus on Advanced Placement Spanish literature and English and economics. Two weeks into shelter-at-home schooling, this Mendez
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