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Covid-19 how impacted our youth:

We heard about COVID-19 in December 2019 while we were spending our Christmas in a resort in Connecticut. By February, a coworker died suddenly, and then a few weeks later we found out that he died of  COVID-19. 

On March 13, 2020, I remember it like it was yesterday, we were forced to send students home with a Chromebook and their books. Two hours before dismissal, 560 students were sent home and were told to wait for directions from us. Everyone went into a panic, teachers without much technology knowledge were told to begin teaching their classes in a virtual google classroom. Parents were frustrated too, because most of them do not have internet at home nor the skills to use a computer and help their kids with the assignments. This became an issue. Our families reported that their children learned less since the beginning of the pandemic, because of the transition from classroom to online/distance learning during lockdown. Despite their efforts to continue studying, more than half of them believed their studies would be delayed, and more than 80% thought that they might fail. The situation has been even worse for our minority families in the city. Living with a low-income, many of them have lost their job because of the pandemic. They have less access to the internet, a lack of equipment, and sometimes even a lack of workspace at home.  COVID-19  has inflicted multiple shocks on our youth community. It is not only destroying their social and emotional wellbeing, but also their families have been disrupted from their jobs, education, and mental well-being. 

In my own family, we were impacted by the pandemic in numerous ways. My job was terminated, my husband had been on layoff for almost a year before he started a new job in February and was sent back home in March, my oldest son lost his job, my youngest son closed his business, and my daughter was devastated because she was graduating from Brown University and she was dreaming to conclude her last year in college with a big celebration and an awesome graduation with her classmates that never happened. We did what we could to make sure she had an awesome pandemic graduation by recording her virtual graduation, making sure she was beautiful with a red dress, an outdoor photoshoot, opening a bottle of champagne, eating together as a family, sharing her best food selection, and a car parade concluding with a house full of signs in our front yard congratulating our Brown graduate.  








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