The Globe published this story and video featuring Newton South students coping with the shutdown.
It felt as unreal and unlikely as anything could. Their high school was renowned for its rigor and its students’ ambitions; in recent years, the pressure-cooker atmosphere had become a matter of community concern, with efforts made to ease the competitive fervor. Now all of that academic stress and structure had vanished, replaced by an uncomfortable, yawning emptiness.
Beautifully-told story and video.
I’m sad for the ladies but I’m comforted to know that these are our future leaders – we’re in good hands.
“They had expected to hear that their schoolwork would continue online, allowing them to make some academic progress….
Katherine wondered how she would tackle calculus next year, after missing months of precalculus…
For now, they would have to help each other stay on track; their teachers could not assign them specific books to read, they said.”
Very sad. The saddest part is that the education leadership in Newton FAILED the kids.