‘Class of COVID’: For this year’s graduating seniors, the pandemic dominated and defined high school
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Marist High School student Clare Dunneback, right, high-fives a fellow student while walking to the school football field for their graduation ceremony on May 18, 2023, in Chicago.
Green was already dealing with a lot of change before the arrival of COVID-19, even though he got good grades his first semester as a freshman. He’d recently moved from the Southwest Side to the North Side, a transfer to Mather and without his old social crutches. And in Chicago Public Schools, the school year had already been disrupted by a two-week teachers strike that fall.
Estrada works at Mather in partnership with Communities In Schools of Chicago, one of the city’s largest education nonprofits, to provide counseling to a caseload of 50 students. She had already been working with Green and other students pre-pandemic; that work, too, had to move online. For all the focus on test scores and learning loss, Estrada said there needs to be a greater emphasis on the impact of the pandemic on students’ mental health.“I firmly believe that students are not able to perform academically if they don’t have the social-emotional supports that they need,” she said. “They are going to have a tough time focusing on school work if they’re experiencing depression or anxiety, if they’ve got social issues happening.
“To be quite frank, after COVID, I don’t think everything ever was the same,” Flores said moments before receiving his diploma last month from Marist, a Catholic school on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Marist High School student Joey Fortner hugs a teacher before the school's graduation ceremony on May 18, 2023.
Senior year was the students’ “most back-to-normal year since early on that freshman year,” Dunneback said. “So we’ve come full circle. You did it all and you did it during a pandemic. You demonstrated perseverance.” “I wish that time wasn’t taken from us,” he said. “There’s no telling what we would’ve been able to do in that time.”
With just over 200 students in her grade, Fonseca said the students created a tightknit community since returning to school.
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