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She was in class at Cabrillo High School when she heard the campus would be closing for a few weeks. At least that was the plan at the time, before COVID-19 was truly raging out of control.
“At that moment there was already a lot going on at school because we’d just lost a former ASB member who’d died,” 16-year-old Rankin recalled. “It was a lot for us. I think a lot of us were just starting to get over that when we were told school was canceled. I was sitting there wanting to cry.”