Despite Online Learning Challenges, Families Find Some Value In A Year At Home
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Jessie Wong's two daughters bonded with their neighbor during the pandemic, giving them a chance to find some social time during a year when many people became more isolated because of quarantine and social distancing rules.
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Andrea Maltese laughs as she remembers the build up to the pandemic. At the time, she just wanted to get it over with, and was sure it wouldn't last long.
"We're practicing on bringing the iPads home, they had this system set up in school. And I was just sort of thinking, 'OK, let's call it now. Let's just start shutting down, get ahead of this, and it'll probably just be a couple weeks, things will return to normal,'" she said.