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By Josh Haskell
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — LAUSD parent Ceylonya Ewell has done everything possible to prevent her youngest daughter Sophia from falling behind because of distance learning. “There’s a lot of unknown and that’s the part that’s really concerning me.
We don’t know what’s lost at this point because the future hasn’t happened yet,” said Ewell. And although Sophia is learning and has received outside tutoring to fill in the gaps, her mother is concerned about the modified curriculum online and the fact that taking a test in a classroom filled with your peers is different than taking a test at home.
“Those children who didn’t get the additional support, teachers will have to give extra time to that student. It may slow the other students’ progress. So it’s going to be a real challenge of getting everyone where they need to be at the same time,” said Ewell.
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