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Back-to-school anxiety: How to help adolescent girls cope with their COVID-era stress
The pandemic prompted the decline of classrooms, and with that, young girls' social skills and self-confidence.
Diane Carugati
Opinion contributor
As adolescent girls head back to school, they may feel more than the usual jitters. Uncertainty and change await them after spending months in the safety of their homes, and that might cause added anxiety.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way kids receive an education. During the last academic year, more than 90% of American homes doubled as classrooms, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With the pandemic in a constant state of flux, school districts did their best to adjust on the fly, and students found themselves learning at home, in classrooms or in hybrid of the two.
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