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  Interviewees: Stephanie Lee, Teacher at Archbishop Riordan High School, slee@riordanhs.org Desry Guenther, Teacher at Claire Lilienthal Elementary, 415-370-8584 Tina Jordan, Mother During COVID-19 Pandemic, 415-310-6288 Chris Tenhoff, Teacher at St. Brendan Elementary School, ctenhoff@stbrendansf.com

  On the wings of COVID-19 insanity, one group has been consistently left behind: children. With no vaccine available to them for months, and growing pressure to reopen schools despite a nationwide pandemic, children have had to bear their fair share of troubles locked away in their homes, unable to socialize or be effectively educated in person. Now, with schools returning to in-person classes en masse, educators are finding that there may  be some long term effects to missing so much time away from each other. COVID-19 learning loss is affecting students across the nation both in their social-emotional development and in their education levels, experts say. Learning loss is a phenomenon causing educators to take a good hard look at the foundations of our educational system, and suggest if it is time for a change.  The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown hit the United States mid-March 2020. Schools and businesses closed, and many parents were forced to become extr...