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#5SmartReads - July 15, 2020

#5SmartReads - July 15, 2020

On South Indian food, a beautiful new book, and what it's really going to take to reopen schools

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A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention. (ProPublica)

COVID’s impact on all parents has been rough - really rough - but my heart especially hurts for children with special needs and their families. These in-person services are literal lifesavers and are nearly impossible to translate via Zoom.

What happened to Grace in Michigan is just appalling and inhumane and just wrong. And the impact on her and her mother - long after COVID is over and she is released - just breaks my heart.

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