The Return of In-Person Learning

Year two of COVID saw the majority of Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) students return to in-person learning, but there wasn’t talk about what that experience had been like for them. We've heard of teachers who were more lenient and compassionate while other students struggled to keep up or felt unsafe in an environment where they are exposed to bullying, disease and police violence. In a changing world, what's changed in our schools? What hasn't changed in our schools? Via student interviews, we explored this in a podcast that will provide a picture of how schools were functioning and how that impacted students’ academic performance and their overall well-being. VoiceWaves’ Briana Mendez-Padilla reports on how LBUSD attempted to adjust.