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Finding joy amid tragedy, California families look ahead with hope [edsource.org]

 

By EdSource Staff, Edsource, December 18, 2020

Even in the most frustrating, hopeless, boring, grief-filled days of the pandemic, California families found slivers of joy.

In Los Banos, the Ruiz and Gutierrez family played indoor badminton and learned American Sign Language together. In the Lucerne Valley, 8-year-old Colton Reichow careened over the desert hills on his dirt bike and learned how to butcher a cow at his grandfather’s farm. In Los Angeles, Shari Abercrombie found a way to make math fun for her son with special needs.

And just about everyone in EdSource’s families project rediscovered the simple comfort of talking to each other. In the third installment of our year-long series “California Families Struggle to Learn,” on how families are coping with distance learning, we asked families for their bright spots: What’s helping them survive this most challenging of school years?

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