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Every time Maureen Donahue looks at a calendar, the time that has passed since March 16 has never failed to amaze her.
“We are in January and it started with the shutdown on March 16,” the Southwestern Central School superintendent said during a meeting earlier this week.
“I just had a conversation with a parent earlier tonight and it’s really startling to think this is however many months old,” Donahue said. “There’s nothing novel about this anymore we’re all kind of ready for it to be over and some of the things for our kids, one of the things I said to somebody was, ‘I’m not telling the kids ‘No’ anymore.’ There’s this whole academic piece, but there’s this whole social-emotional piece also.”