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How to helping children manage back to school anxiety among COVID-19

College of Education1 min readJuly 30, 2020

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) — Back to school jitters are not uncommon for most students. However, with children seeing COVID-19 dominating the news, and having their previous school year cut short, the unknown pressure may be enormous.

“Children are experiencing this in their way,” said Dr. Margaux H. Brown. They’re consumers of the world and the anxiety that might be in their system.”

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