It’s hard enough to learn in a second language without a pandemic keeping you out of the classroom. But Qasim Almjareesh—a newly minted eighth-grader at Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky—hasn’t let that stop him. Our discussion with the Syrian immigrant and native Arabic speaker brought to light his experience with distance learning after COVID-19 pushed his school to shift to teaching virtually last spring.
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