This is the third school year in a row that will be completely upended by the coronavirus.
surges, those hopes are hanging in the balance. Students like Ava are left to traverse transitional periods in their lives amid the backdrop of an ongoing deadly pandemic.
Most of Ava’s seventh and eighth grade years were spent learning remotely. “It kind of became normal, which was the most odd part,” she tells. When she thinks of her friends now, she sometimes imagines them in their little Zoom squares. When she talks to people in real life, she finds herself unsure what to say because she’s gotten so used to responding to text messages. As Ava watches the first day of high school draw closer, she’s worried that she’s not ready for it.
Jessi Gold, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, says the transition into high school or college is something many teens dream about. Their hopes and expectations are now coming up against the reality of a pandemic. “When you go and it’s masks or virtual or severely limited social interactions, it takes so much off of that grand view of what high school or college is supposed to be like,” says Gold.
Melissa Shang, 18, didn’t imagine spending her junior and senior years of high school secluded from her classmates and friends. Because she has Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a nerve problem that can affect breathing and makes her, she has exclusively attended online classes since March 2020. There were some silver linings, she says. A flexible learning schedule allowed her to rest more and be less fatigued.
Melissa listened as her classmates repeated the argument that the threat of COVID was overblown since it had the worst impacts on. Did they realize that meant Melissa? “That made me feel like they didn’t think my life mattered as much as theirs did,” she says. The conversations around who was most at risk from the virus left her feeling invalidated. When cases spiked and
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