Dr. Susan Thornton, a care specialist at a middle school has one of her students hold a pop stick with a conversation starter line glued to it, an activity to help teens open up. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Susan Thornton)
By Margaret DeLaney, Olivia Varden and Chris Langley
LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE — In fourth-grade teacher Laura Spurgeon’s class, the students who attended school in person during the pandemic sit in one area, and those who were online last year sit in another. A third group, the students still working from home, join in on a screen.
“It’s like I’m teaching three different leve…
