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Doing school virtually really impacted my grades. I got lazy and unmotivated being home, I didnt want to get up and do any work. I was glad that I got to stay home, but it also wasnt good when it came to schoolwork. -Jen

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I believe covid impacted the fact that i couldnt experience senior prom or the trips and stuff like that but overall it was a learning experience because i became more independent and open to my creativity , i found my likes and dislikes to prepare me for college which helped because if i was still in school i would be stressed over work and wouldn't have time to think for myself. Covid taught me how to grow without people watching over me 24/7 and i enjoyed it .

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I believe that covid really influenced everyone’s mental and physics state. I feel like we all changed. I agree with what my peers were saying about the pandemic bringing out the hustle and laziness. I feel like covid caused me to become less social and it honestly made me reevaluate my life. It made me question what I really wanted to do with my life. -Anthea Bollers

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i think that covid  helped people  do things that they always wanted to do things but also it affected students  in a negative way because school became even more harder for them because everything is through a computer  -cierra jones

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i believe that covid has made me lose my discipline and motivation in school. I've also just become distant and lost my sense to socialize because covid has limited it and i just didn't care anymore. before covid in high school i was just going through the motion and staying on track to be able to get out of high school and i had my friends to support me, but once covid hit i just became distant and i allowed my school work to go from a molehill to a mountain. but on a positive note covid made me think more with the way my discipline is not where it is supposed to be right now and i need to regain it for college, and i was able to learn more about my self and how to better it. -Gabrielle Campbell

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This pandemic has been both positive and negative . I say this because being in the house 24/7 has been very depression . It made me sad and stressed . Doing school online is just not for everybody and it not for me i see myself doing so much better now that I´m in school because it gives me a little more hope , it make me see that maybe the world can possibly be open again . Being in school helps me interact with others not just my family . It makes it so much easier being able to see different faces . This pandemic has also taught me alot about myself. It helped me become much more independent , It help me understand so much about myself that I feel didnt even know .  This was a time where a lot of people learned from . Yes school is going to end in a month or so but still its better to enjoy this last month in school .- Qua´liyah Brown

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i just feel like this caught us off guard no one was prepared for this and everyone thought it would be easy cause we are at home but it is wayy harder because i feel unmotivated while at home unfocused. in school its wayy different

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School is going to end soon, but I see that school is slowly going back to normal. This school year was definitely different from any other school year.

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I feel that this pandemic has robbed us of many things. Mainly senior years cause now we wont be able to experience the things we were looking forward to before this pandemic (prom, senior trips, college fairs/visits) and now this pandemic has left me feeling that I haven't grown and matured into the adult I was supposed to become.

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i agree with the students that said COVID ruined our lives because we cant do the things we used to do since COVID started

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Covid had made us lose connections to many friends and had made us seperate it from them. As what we doing right now is not something to keep us unsafe, but to communicate with each and have that bond again.

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I decided to return back to the building, because being in the house and sitting in front of a laptop for hours was depressing. I came to a point in my life where i had absolutely no motivation, having that feeling that things would never go back to normal. Coming in to school today I was able to complete a lot of assignments, whereas if I was home I would probably be sleep, doing anything else but my school work.

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I feel like being stuck inside the house has caused students to be stuck in this mindset of logging on to zoom, staring at a computer all day, and doing the same thing the next day. It is very easy to lose track of the days going by so as you're procrastinating you're falling more and more behind. This is why the fact that you're remote doesn't help because even a year into the pandemic online school still feels surreal.

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Isaiah G- I would like to agree with Sierra G because covid took away the opportunity for us teenagers to develop and grow in a new environment. The fact that we weren't able to grow into a new environment made a lot of us lose motivation in joining classes because we felt like we weren't going to be able to experience growth in any type of way. I myself lost motivation to attend online classes because I felt as if I was watering a plant that wasn't going to grow. We were doing the same thing over and over and I was just tired of walking in a loop so I decided to return to the building.

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I agree with everyone's comments I feel like being in the house everyday doing the same routine everyday wasn't healthy at all this year , I feel like we should have been able to go back to school earlier this year and I feel like our 12 grade year was basically just zoom everyday all day It wasn't what we would have expected.

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but my high school experience wasn't that bad although I did not fully experience a senior year , but I feel like being home just made me find myself and try to think about life because at school all you think about is your education , but when I'm at home I think about more long term and what I want to be in life . On a negative side this time period made me lazy , hard to learn and see people true colors. But this pandemic just made me more independent.- Terrell