A school principal's blunt warning: We can't pretend the pandemic is over
Kids are carrying the trauma of the pandemic and, even if COVID is eventually defanged, it has already left indelible marks on students' psyches and education.
That's the warning of Chicago school principal, Seth Lavin.
As the pandemic has disrupted education across the country, the situation in Chicago has been particularly acute. The city's public school system shut down for five days earlier this month as the teachers union and city officials were in a standoff over COVID safety rules.
"Our schools are not OK. Children are not OK. Teachers are not OK," Lavin wrote in a . "Yesterday we COVID-tested a line of students 300 children long. But this surreal circus is not the main plot of this year. The surge is ending. The crisis will still be here."
