LOS ANGELES — One parent spoke of a son who hasn’t been the same since the pandemic. Another talked of her daughter — first having to adjust to being stuck at home, and then to being back in class. A third talked about stress and anger among students.
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Wednesday asked parents at Los Angeles High School of the Arts in Koreatown how the pandemic had affected their children — and also them — and what they needed. And parents spoke up.
With a nudge from Cardona, improved mental health services topped their list, along with a desire to make their public schools better than before COVID-19 laid waste to normalcy.
