Originally published on December 24, 2020 6:49 am
Its roof frosted with a covering of the previous night s snow, a yellow school bus chugs up to the front door of Bucksport High School in Maine, where Principal Josh Tripp greets the handful of late-arriving students as they drag themselves inside.
Tripp is just glad they ve shown up, in a year when school is half online, sports and clubs have been curtailed and the world can seem as cold and gray as a winter morning in this sparsely populated coastal town. Their overall feeling toward education right now is that they ve just been beaten down, Tripp says. Everything about this year has been harder. Certainly being an election year and seeing so much negativity around forecasts of our future, regardless of what political side you re on there s just a lot of dim and dreary outlooks.
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