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Santa Barbara Students Struggle to Learn During Pandemic

Santa Barbara Students Struggle to
Learn During Pandemic

Teaching Virtually Has Not Been Working Well for All Elementary Grades

By Delaney Smith | Photos by Daniel Dreifuss | February 18, 2021

Credit: Daniel Dreifuss

When they finally returned to school, some of the students couldn’t even write their own names.

Others struggled to use scissors or hold pencils.

For Carpinteria’s Canalino kindergarten teacher Andrea Edmondson, this was the reality when her students returned to the classroom in October.

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