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Ana Barros, a teacher at Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, discusses her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and her limited amount of teaching experience before the pandemic hit in 2020. Barros describes some of the hardships faced by students and teachers alike including problems adjusting to online schooling and students not participating as they used to and failing classes in larger numbers, with a disproportionate impact on minority students. As students returned to classrooms, Barros notes some of the lasting effects of the pandemic through social and emotional attitudes of incoming students not previously seen.