After the COVID-19 pandemic began, Lindsey McKinnon, an art teacher at R. Dan Nolan Middle School, was used to seeing her students’ faces from the eyes up because of the School District of Manatee County’s mask policy.
When McKinnon’s students started their self portrait projects in February, she finally saw her students’ smiles when she took photos of each student.
Timeline
Schools’ pandemic response:
March 13, 2020 Schools go on spring break; Gov. Ron DeSantis declares schools will close for two weeks.
March 17 DeSantis declares all schools will close through April 15.
March 23 Teachers return to school to prepare for e-learning.
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It’s more than eight months since Prime Minister Boris Johnson first put the UK into lockdown. Shops, salons and cafes down Royal Wootton Bassett’s high street were forced to close, with no idea when, or if, they would be able to reopen. It was a strange time. Unprecedented, in fact. Never before had the place so well-known for its community spirit been so still. “During lockdown, it was pretty much a ghost town,” said Claudia Allen, who travelled in from Brinkworth to get groceries for her shielding family. “Now, it’s basically returned to exactly how it was before.”