At first, it was supposed to last just a few weeks. Mayors and superintendents around the country announced schools would shut temporarily to halt the spread of a deadly virus that had officially been named “COVID-19” on Feb. 11, 2020. Many school districts hustled to get laptops and other devices to students and shifted learning […] The post 10 lives, 5 years later: How the pandemic altered the futures of these parents, kids and educators appeared first on The Hechinger Report.