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H. Dennis Beaver, Esq.

Pediatrician With 3 Decades of Experience Explores What the Pandemic Taught Us About Kids and COVID

Kids in a classroom, some with their hands raised to answer a question.

If you had school-aged children or grandchildren in your care during the pandemic, COVID-19 was that nightmare none of us fully woke up from, leaving this haunting question: "What did these past several years — a tsunami of doubt and contradictions — do to our children?"

While, historically, it has been virtually impossible to sue a school district for educational negligence ­— for example, graduating kids from high school who are functionally illiterate — COVID opened the floodgates, leading to multimillion-dollar class action settlements across the country to pay for remedial tutoring in basic subjects.

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