A parent’s plea: After 18 lonely months of COVID, the kids are not alright. Here’s why this back-to-school season must balance learning with healing

“Whenever schools bring back their full student bodies for in-person learning, most will find that kids won’t come back fully whole.” “They’ll need time to get used to focusing on learning in the presence of friends, spending whole days indoors around crowds, working within the educational structures of schedules and authority.”

Read what the author feels schools need to be aware of as students return to in-person classrooms. To to: “A parent’s plea: . . .”