‘This is just multitasking at its finest,’ mom says

Rachel Ettlinger – Times Herald-Record USA TODAY NETWORK – in th D&C on 11/12/2020

MIDDLETOWN – As 9-year-old Leighann Jansen sits in a chair at the dining room table for her first class of the school year, her youngest brother, 15-month-old Luca, wiggles in her lap, beating his little hands across her keyboard and rubbing them in her hair.

Seven-year-old London looks over at her big sister, grateful not to be this moment’s human jungle gym.

Leighann’s eyes stay fixed on her school-provided Chromebook, where she can see the faces of her fourth-grade peers and her Presidential Park Elementary School mastery program teacher — even as she holds Luca steady and keeps him from grabbing at four sets of school supplies.