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East Mecklenburg High students Gloria Boykin (left) and Lucy Smithwick posted sticky notes with encouraging messages around school before going remote.
Next week Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school students will return to classrooms for the first time in almost a year.
Over the past 11 months, they ve found ways to cope with distance whether that means moving the school newspaper online, playing bagpipes over Facebook or turning off Zoom cameras in class.
As you might expect, there’s a sense of fatigue and loss when teens talk about how their lives have changed since schools closed last March.
East Meck Body Banter notes from last school year.
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A Cotswold Elementary student walks past a social distancing banner on the way to class in November.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board meets Tuesday to hear plans for bringing students back to in-person classes next week.
In the past year, such meetings have brought last-minute changes and delays. But this one comes in the wake of last week’s call from state leaders to reopen in-person classes.
And Superintendent Earnest Winston said Friday he s ready to recommend staying the course the board set in mid-January. We are ready to welcome our students and staff to in-person learning on Feb. 15 and 22, he said at a news conference.