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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.