By Eve Padula, Keypoint IntelligenceIt has been more than two years since terms like “COVID-19” and “global pandemic” became a part of our everyday vernacular. With new variants continuing to emerge with frustrating frequency, it remains to be seen when (if ever) we’ll finally be able to put this part of human history in the rear-view mirror. COVID changed so much about our world: how we work, how we shop, how we interact with one another, and even how we learn. As a parent, this final aspect hit particularly close to home for me. 
The New Normal?
My daughter is 8 years old, so I’m sure she has some hazy memories of what life was like before social distancing, face masks, and the constant need for hand sanitizer. Even so, most of her academic history has taken place under the shadow of COVID. The pandemic hit when she was in kindergarten, and the rest of that school year was cut short as everything shifted to remote learning virtually overnight in mid-March 2020. My daughter detested remote learning from the start, and I couldn’t blame her—she missed her friends, she missed her teacher, and she didn’t like being tethered to a computer just as the weather was starting to warm up. It was difficult for her to comprehend why her vibrant, interactive classroom had shrunk down to the size of a screen on our dining room table.
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