Welcome Back
to
School
Full attendance back in school
S
tudents and staff at Roberson are feeling the effects of the al-
tered school atmosphere in response to COVID restrictions.
These past one and a half years have been far from
normal. From Zooms to Google classroom assignments, covid
has struck school systems everywhere. Students and Staff have
gone through phases of fully-virtual school, a-day b-day, and now,
100% attendance back in school.
English teacher Mrs.McMinn says, “I felt much more prepared
this year than last year because I am looking at
this year as merging the best of both worlds”. “I AM LOOKING
Many people feel as if the transition to back to
school has been well-needed. Freshman Elijah AT THIS YEAR AS
Warren says, “I have been excited to return ever
since school went virtual”. MERGING THE
For others, the transition has been quite a shock
compared to the 2020-2021 school year. Junior
BEST OF BOTH
Dhruvi Patel says,“I definitely think I wasn’t WORLDS”
prepared to return to school full-time, It is dif-
ferent seeing so many more people at school and
it’s kind of hard adjusting to the normal school
schedule.” Alongside Patel, sophomore Sarah Al- CHRISTINA
lison shares how she feels as if the transition has
been on the tougher side. “It’s been very difficult for me to focus
because of the struggle between sports and school,” says Allison.
Alongside students being affected greatly by the strange covid
atmosphere, staff especially have had to navigate through un-
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charted territory these past years. Mrs.Mcminn says “I think our
administrators need an extra gold star for their leadership these
three pandemic years.”
Many students and staff are just happy they get to be back in
school and get a sense of normalcy. “So far, this school year has
been pretty normal, other than the pandemic, but I don’t think
I would wish anything different,” Patel says. Senior Eli Halperin
Pierce says “although I was nervous to go back full-time at first, I
am happy now that I’ve been back at school.”
After this long process of a very strange one and
a half years, we are the closest we have been to
normalcy. Latin teacher Mr.Semper says, “I am
elated that students have returned to my class-
room, and that we are learning Latin in person,
and I am proud of their enthusiasm and ef-
fort.”
For many students at TC Roberson, this is their
first full close to normal year of highschool.
Halperin Pierce says, “Because of COVID, 75%
of students in highschool right now have never
MCMINN had a full year of normal highschool”. Although
school life isn’t quite like it was back in 2019, it is
the closest it’s been in almost two years.
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