By Candace J Semien / Jozef Syndicate
Shreveport—Deandria Burris sits in front of brown cabinet doors. Four small posters display math terms in bold colors, scribble lines, and doodles. Her disposition is friendly even though it is the end of a long day, and it has been three long years of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I had to just persevere,” said Burris, a math interventionist in Caddo Parish. When COVID struck in 2020, she stepped in to teach fourth-grade math block virtually, then lost her only sister at the onset of the pandemic.
Since March 9, 2020, more than 18,700 Louisianans have died because of COVID. Residents…
