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I wasn’t surprised when my son did well in school and expressed a desire to go to MIT. My husband even took him to visit the campus once. He took a picture of him sitting on the library’s front steps. I was sure one day that’s where my son would go.
My son dropped out of high school in his junior year #
Then, the pandemic hit in 2020. On a Sunday evening, as I sat in my kitchen, I received the call that they’d be shutting down schools for two weeks. I cried, unaware that this was just the beginning. As an educator myself, I knew the impact this would have on not only my kids but kids everywhere. As the mother of two boys, then 14 and 6, and two girls, then 13 and 8, I couldn’t have imagined at that time what would come in the years ahead.
