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In Defiance
I got an email this week from Sonya Hemmen, head of school at Ross Montessori in Carbondale. The subject line was “One year ago,” and attached were several cell phone photos she had taken on March 11, 2020 of students gathered shoulder to shoulder in the school’s spacious entryway.
The images were from the school’s “Peace Presentations.” There were fun hats, special certificates were handed out, a teacher was playing guitar and students were singing.
My how things have changed.
Such a gathering wasn’t even allowed for several ensuing months. Once students returned to classrooms in the fall, any such gathering would require facemasks, students would be separated into smaller “cohort” groups, spaced 6 feet apart … oh, and no passing of papers and certainly no singing!