{"id":39297,"date":"2021-08-30T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39297"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:37:15","slug":"anxiety-running-high-as-covid-19-threatens-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39297","title":{"rendered":"ANXIETY RUNNING HIGH AS COVID-19 THREATENS BACK-TO-SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students across the U.S. are starting another school year under a cloud of uncertainty as the delta strain of the coronavirus rips through the country, threatening to disrupt plans for a second consecutive academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic\u2019s unpredictability has sparked high anxiety among children and teachers alike as they attempt to return to in-person school for the first time since March 2020, with lingering fears that COVID-19 could jeopardize educational routines again.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-school season has left children and families with mixed feelings. Many are excited to return to in-person class after months of virtual learning, while some adults are keeping a wary eye on rising pediatric cases and hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoutines are so important for children, and we are all living in a state where routines are impossible to predict,\u201d said Sheila Desai, the director of educational practice at the National Association of School Psychologists. \u201cSo of course with uncertainty comes anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students across the U.S. are starting&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39298,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions\/39298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}