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/ East Mecklenburg High students Gloria Boykin (left) and Lucy Smithwick posted sticky notes with encouraging messages around school before going remote. Next week Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school students will return to classrooms for the first time in almost a year. Over the past 11 months, they've found ways to cope with distance — whether that means moving the school newspaper online, playing bagpipes over Facebook or turning off Zoom cameras in class. As you might expect, there’s a sense of fatigue and loss when teens talk about how their lives have changed since schools closed las...

WFAE A Cotswold Elementary student walks past a social distancing banner on the way to class in November. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board meets Tuesday to hear plans for bringing students back to in-person classes next week. In the past year, such meetings have brought last-minute changes and delays. But this one comes in the wake of last week’s call from state leaders to reopen in-person classes. And Superintendent Earnest Winston said Friday he's ready to recommend staying the course the board set in mid-January. "We are ready to welcome our students and staff to in-person learning...