A loophole is allowing thousands of California students to use pandemic-shuttered classrooms
LOS ANGELES - Five-year-old Jameson Miniex twisted his fingers into his curly hair, watching with rapt attention as a teacher in a blush-colored hijab read a book for the first day of school.
Around him, other Los Angeles Unified School District kindergartners scribbled their assignments and stretched their hands in the air, each working behind a clear plastic partition that is now as much a part of school's visual lexicon as milk pints and chalkboards.
But these LA students aren't back in school. Instead, they've joined thousands of youngsters who log into class from day camps and tutoring programs such as this one - many alongside their pre-COVID classmates, and some in the very classrooms that were shuttered by the pandemic.
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