It鈥檚 unclear to Tameka how 鈥 or even when 鈥 her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. But it was traumatic when, in fall 2021, they figured out it had happened.
After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Tameka was deeply afraid of COVID-19 and skeptical the schools could keep her kids safe from what she called 鈥渢he corona.鈥 One morning, in a test run, she sent two kids to school.
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