Remote learning has created a new audience for an old ritual: Crying in school

Quezada assisting her daughters Priscilla (left) and Paulette Guerrero with virtual class from their Boyle Heights home. Tech issues on the first day of class drove nine-year-old Priscilla to tears. — Los Angeles Times/TNS

LOS ANGELES: During the second week of distance learning, six-year-old Ezra Karpf clicked the “unmute” button on his computer screen so he could ask his teacher a question. It didn’t work.

Ezra’s frustration simmered. Then it peaked. Then it exploded.