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"So on Wednesdays, we actually have the opportunity to log in with our teachers during their office hours if we ever need clarification on anything. Which is really nice, especially if an assignment was due Tuesday or something and you need clarification, even though you already turned it in, or if it was just due on Thursday or Friday."

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"I think the protocols at school [for the in-person days], that's really well. I was concerned about thinking that it was just going to be very loose, but they are really on top of it, keeping the proper protocols."

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"One of the hardest things I'd say for me and for a lot of kids, like one of my friends, a lot of people I talk to kind of have this same issue... Like waking up and going to school. It sounds silly, but a lot of the time, when you're tired in the morning and your computer is right there on a desk or table and you can just log on to the meet, sometimes it seems silly to drive all the way to the school when you can just get out of bed and hop on the computer...So I don't know. I feel like it was like that for a lot of kids."

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"It's a little hard, because my sister and I have our desks in the same room, which is a little challenging sometimes, when we're both on separate classes, and we're both trying to say something at the same time. And so, I'm talking over here, and the microphone is picking up what she's saying to her Chemistry teacher, and I'm in English class. And they're like, "What?" Especially because we sound almost the same on the microphone. So, that gets a little confusing"

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"I feel like the workload, when you look at it objectively, I did take less classes but it felt much harder to manage. And I feel that's probably a mix of stress and time management skills and just not feeling the motivation too throughout the year, partially because of online school. And as well, maybe because of senioritis, I don't know, but it was just really hard to feel you want to do any work."

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Additional Home Responsibilities and Supporting Younger Siblings

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Additional Home Responsibilities and Supporting Younger Siblings

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"I find my mom telling me a lot at home to do a lot of things. She's like, "You're at home all the time, so you should be able to do more chores and everything." And I'm like, "Okay, but I still have school." So I have to do that. And also, since I'm home, she expects me to take care of my sister's work too, who's remote, who's younger. So I have to help her a lot. And that takes a lot of effort because it's a little child and you have to teach them, because they have to do it through screens. And if it's hard for us, it must be so much harder for them to understand these concepts that they don't know."

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"[S]ome teachers are great at their teaching styles, and they do what they can to check in with their students, both mentally and academically with the material, but it's varies throughout. It's not really consistent throughout the entire school. It's pretty much a teacher by teacher thing."

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"I'd say the hardest thing has been in some of my classes when we get these big projects, and we're not in-person to ask questions about it. So, it's been a lot more email based, which has been tricky for [...]It felt like it was harder to make sure you were on the right track, because you couldn't ask the teacher questions that often, yea"

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"I'd say maybe as an alternative do like a late start but still have an in-school day. I think that might allow kids to do their meeting or catch up on homework earlier in the morning if they need to do that, but still have the in-class normal weekday."

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"I'm a member of the civil rights team at our school so we definitely talked about the Black Lives Matter movement a lot and when the protests were happening at the Capitol, the riots, we talked about that a lot and just processing things because it was a lot to take in so it was nice to have a group to talk about that with"

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"I have really liked that we've been able to eat outside. We were in the fall, and then this spring we were able to eat outside again. And I have really liked that. It feels like you get a little bit more break or separation from the classroom that way, which I really enjoyed. So, I hope that continues."

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"Prioritize mental health, please."

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Interactive Virtual Classes  Provide Motivation

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Interactive Virtual Classes  Provide Motivation

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"[The classes are] a lot more interactive than it was last year or last semester. So that in a sense is very useful to help actually motivate you, but it's still very hard to get to that point where you feel like you can do the work."

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Teachers Making Virtual Learning Interactive

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Teachers Making Virtual Learning Interactive

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"I will say that some of my teachers have been able to pull off some interaction through the screen. I think there's definitely room to applaud them for that. . . . I expected a lot of our schooling to be like last semester where a lot of it was asynchronous. It wasn't like virtual school anymore. It was essentially just an online class that you would just do on your own time. . . . Some teachers are pulling it off."

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"I think that a class that is doing really well is AP computer science. The teacher, when we're learning in class, he either does lectures where he checks in with us in the chat a lot for people online. Because a lot of times in our classes, everyone is mic off and camera off, but he makes sure to ask us questions in the chat like, rate how you felt about that problem on a scale of one to five. And then he'll check to see who's actually answering so that he knows who's engaged. Which is helpful because it forces you to make sure that you're still paying attention."

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"The quality of the teaching isn't the same because teachers obviously have to cater to both the online groups and the in-person groups."

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"I think teachers being understanding has gone better than I thought. I had some teachers who were really understanding, no question. If you need an extension, you can go ask them and they'll understand. So I feel that wiggle room is helpful when you don't know how your mental health is going to be one day and you can't make a deadline. It's helpful."

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"[M]y AP statistics teacher, he is doing a really good job. He's really keeping us engaged throughout the entire time. And he's trying. He keeps his energy high the entire time, which makes it very useful. It's not monotone. It's just a matter of him trying to make the material fall in an interactive way. And he's found out this one extension called Kami that's been really useful, allowing to interact more with it than you'd expect to."

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"I see a lot of teachers do that when they give you work time, which has been really nice. Because there have been some classes when I do need to work on something else in order to get it done on time. But they usually just say, "Here's work time. Here's work. Either do it now, or do it some time before the next class," which it's just been kind of nice to know you don't have to do it at that time. It's easier, generally, to do it at that time, but sometimes we need to take the time to work on other stuff."

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"Just the amount of days I'd be sitting in class, taking notes or trying to learn, actually learn and gain knowledge, the amount of things that I have learned. Like a lot of our classes have kind of reduced sizes of units because we haven't been in the class as much which makes sense but it's also like ... I'm literally not learning as much."

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"One thing that my teachers will do is if they feel like you're a little bit behind, or just they see that you're struggling during class, they will email me personally. And I feel that just adds a little bit of personal touch interaction, because it just feels like they're actually paying attention and you feel like maybe you're not being ignored."

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"I have really liked having Wednesdays at home. I think especially for students with a pretty busy schedule, Wednesdays give the opportunity to really get work done. Like today, this Wednesday, I have been doing homework all morning which I don't know when I would have done it if I had school today and I had to be learning. So yeah. I liked having Wednesdays off and I was productive but I know not everybody can be as productive at home."

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"I really enjoyed my Pre-Calculus class, because it's a very friendly environment. And even when you're at home, you get to interact with people at school, not a lot, but a little. She has a camera that she points at everybody else, so you can see the classroom. Our teacher will often start the day with a puzzle, or a riddle, or something, a brain teaser. And that's something we can do at home or in school, and that's just kind of fun."

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"As much as it drives me a little bit insane sometimes, I think group projects are nice because again, some human interaction, it definitely does drive my group mates insane a little bit sometimes too, but I feel it is a good way to just log onto a call and be with your friends and do a bit research and get an assignment done. But it's also just the time to hang out with your friends."