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But, in the meantime, students and teachers have returned to distance learning — which, for many, evoked a kind of dreadful déjà vu.

The district was focused on the pandemic and distance learning.

That coincides with the period when COVID-19 vaccines became available to adolescents and schools that had leaned into distance learning required students to return to campus.

For many, the transition back to in-person school after distance learning was traumatic.

Shaw said politics were not an interest for her before COVID-19 and the frustrations that mounted as she watched her daughters staring at a computer for distance learning.