Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Tania Savayan, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 2:50 am UTC Apr. 21, 2021 Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Tania Savayan, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 2:50 am UTC Apr. 21, 2021 Note: This story is part of the fourth installment of Learning Curve, a yearlong series of stories following a group of families whose children are attending public schools across New York state during the pandemic. Start from the beginning here. For five minutes near the end of the school day, Bryan Santiago got to do something that eluded him for much of the pandemic: Say hello to a friend at school. After a year of online learning, Bryan went to the media center at the Mount Vernon STEAM Academy to get maintenance on his laptop and bumped into a classmate.