BALDWIN, Long Island (WABC) — With summer break coming to a close, kids are getting ready to head back to class, but as the calendar flips to September, some students still haven’t turned the corner from 2020 and are struggling to catch up following the pandemic.
Educators say some kids are still showing developmental delays due to the isolations and shutdowns. So, what’s being done to make sure they don’t fall even more behind?
Andrea McDevitt knows all about the excitement surrounding a new school year, but the veteran elementary school teacher, now in her 18th year, is also keenly aware of the pandemic-related reality that the social development of children suffered while moms and dads worked. As a result, kids had to occupy themselves.
“There were kids excited to come back and then there were kids terrified to come back,” said McDevitt, who teaches 4th grade. “Maybe they lost somebody at home. Maybe there …