In the Suburbs: 2020 is over, but what will 2021 bring?
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Steven Gaynes
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It’s over! The year 2020 finally ends Thursday night.
But for 330,000+ victims of this COVID-19 pandemic, the year has been ending everyday over the past eight or nine months inside the walls of hospitals. And as we try to ring in the New Year with the usual fanfare, it’s just not happening. All I can visualize is tables around the world with empty chairs and empty hearts.
And those unnecessary deaths are only one part of the loss for me.
Since we left school in mid-March to go remote, I feel like I’ve been unplugging parts of my life and my jobs while living in perpetual quarantine. And many of our students at the charter school in Bridgeport where I work have experienced a range of feelings, including isolation, depression, apathy about school and real sadness among other unexpected emotions and behaviors. Sadly, even with our return to an adjusted hybrid schedule in earl