LAUSD graduating senior Estrella Salazar speaks about her high school years during the pandemic at the InnerCity Struggle office in Los Angeles. These students, who attended Los Angeles Unified schools in the Eastside and South Los Angeles, see themselves as the COVID class of 2023. They were first-year high school students when the pandemic forced campus closures in March 2020. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)Ana Cristyna Baena Chavez, Roosevelt High SchoolAna Cristyna Baena Chavez, 17, moved to Los Angeles in November 2021 of her sophomore year. “You’re trying to overcome those facts and you’re trying to go for a better future.”She enrolled at Roosevelt High School during distance learning.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 26, 2023 18:08 UTC