As Return To Classes Nears, CMS High School Students Talk About Coping With Months Of Distance
/ 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...
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