Dear Class of 2020...

Dear Class of 2020, Here I am again writing to you, except the problem here is that I don’t really know how to put our situation into words without falling into a puddle of tears, but I’ll try my best.  This was supposed to be our senior year, the year we looked forward to all our life. So many plans were set in place that have now been canceled or rescheduled. I was supposed to travel to New York and Canada for my graduation trip but obviously there was no safe way to make that happen, only leaving us with the choice of canceling.  We got the announcement a few days ago that school is canceled through the rest of the year. That means no more seeing classmates, no more lunch conversations, music rehearsals, sports practices, drama plays, and so much more. This is not how we ever in a thousand years thought our senior year would play out. At the beginning of this school year we all walked through our high school doors with the thought in mind that it would our last, first day of school in the k-12 public schools. We all thought we would also be able to walk through those door on our last day of school for the last time but unfortunately we soon found out that the day we left for spring break would be our last day ever walking through those doors in the morning and the last time leaving in the afternoon. I’ll never get to say goodbye to Ms. Myra again as i leave for my OJT job and I’ll never be able to hear her ask where my lanyard is again, it’s the little things I’ll miss most. I’ll never get to finish making that bond with my track and field team that i had planned on creating this year! I’ll never get to play my flute in class again with Kaylee sitting next to me because that wouldn’t be considered social distancing. I wonder what music we would’ve played for our final band concert, would Ms. C or Mr. Robinson be conducting that concert? Who would have won the our final band banquet awards? These things will never know.  It’s like we had this year in our minds for our whole life and now it’s here and it’s just been washed away in an instance. Vision Therapy is now over the phone, with YouTube and google as my visual helper and Ms. Best guiding me through it telling me what to watch and helping me find the correct information, I miss having O&M  in person with Ms. Best. I’ll never have Sra. Farr teaching me spanish face to face again it’ll just be through the phone or my non spanish speaking parent trying to teach me to the best of their ability, it’ll never be the same again.  I wonder what schools will look like this coming fall, will students even go back by then, will desks be each 6ft apart, will that cause for classes to be smaller in number? These are all things that we now have to wonder due to this virus.  My dad is a paramedic so i get to hear about this virus first hand, and let me tell you it’s a scary thing. I promise you you’ll never think twice about why this all going on when you realize what it’s really like on the front line of this all. I wish it wasn’t this way but it’s only what has to happen to control this. Its scary out there, people have lost their love ones, people have lost their legs, and we have lost our senior year. We are all in the same lake just different boats, we will get through this together as one!  Sincerely, A high school senior who understands Stay strong!