Students in Middle Tennessee are heading back to school this week. Inglewood Elementary School in Nashville was buzzing with excitement as students entered the doors on Tuesday for their first day of class.

With that excitement came some separation anxiety among parents and students. First-day jitters were especially high for the school’s kindergartners. Inglewood’s executive principal, Whitney Russell, noted that her youngest students were born at the height of the pandemic in 2020.

“This is the year, kindergarten, these are our Covid babies,” Russell told WPLN News. “Our Covid babies are really attached to their parents and they’re really attached to their parents because they don’t know the world outside of their parents. So, I’m sure there was a lot of anxiety leading up to today.”

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