Student mental health struggles intensify as high schools remain closed year into pandemic
Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times When the coronavirus pandemic first closed schools last year, one Chicago mother watched as her son — then a freshman at a public school on the North Side — became hyper focused on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s daily briefings, spurring disappointment every time he announced a delay in reopening schools. As Chicago Public Schools remained closed for the rest of the year and did not reopen in the fall, the mother said her son’s anxiety and depression manifested more severely as he became too angry to function. He remains “emotionally miserable,” said the woman...
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