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As schools reopen, students struggle with COVID trauma
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of returning students across the Boston area are bearing deep psychological wounds from firsthand experience with the pandemic: They’ve gotten sick themselves, they’ve watched family members suffer and die; or they live in communities with high cases of COVID-19.
These children are likely to be struggling with chronic stress, grief, anxiety, and depression. At the outset of an extraordinarily difficult year, schools are trying to help them cope — a challenge exponentially complicated by the fact that many of these students are learning remotely.
“We are not set up as an online school. We are set up so we are able to see our students and look at their faces to see what is going on,” said Geoffrey Walker, head of school at Fenway High School in Boston. “COVID complicated that.”
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