LENOX â Amid widespread reports of students facing COVID-related mental health and emotional adjustment issues, the five-year strategic plan adopted by the elected School Committee members last month includes immediate, priority attention to reentry challenges. A recent national survey by the Education Week Research Center found that at least 25 percent of high school students reported fatigue, difficulty concentrating, feeling isolated from classmates and not finishing schoolwork. Distractions caused by pandemic-related anxieties, worries and fears plagued 21 percent of the students, the survey found. During a recent remote presentation to the community, a section of the plan presented by Strategic Planning Committee member Erika Baluk-Shepardson, one of four district parents on the 15-member group, emphasized that âit will be critical to continue identifying and addressing mental health challenges triggered or intensified by the pandemic.â